Even with two challengers gunning for his seat, Don White won the race for the 41st state Senate District in a landslide victory, according to unofficial results.

White will continue serving as state senator for four more years in his fifth and final term.

“I’m excited that I have the endorsement of the people to give them one more term,” White said. “They like what I have done and they like the transparency and the fact that I have stood up for this section of Pennsylvania.”

For the first time since he was first elected in 2000, White was challenged by Democratic nominee Anthony Deloreto and Stanley Buggey, who represented the USA Minutemen Party.

In Butler County, White won the majority with more than 72 percent of the votes for a total of 16,638 votes. Deloreto received 5,680 votes, about 25 percent, while Buggey received 539 votes, about 2.3 percent.

The 41st District covers eastern areas of the county.

White also won in all precincts for Indiana and Armstrong counties.

He garnered 23,167 votes in Indiana County, about 61.5 percent. Deloreto received 11,673 votes and Buggey received 2,758 votes.

White also received the most votes in Westmoreland County, with 93,022 votes, or 95 percent of votes cast for the office. Deloreto got 4 percent of the vote and Buggey got less than 1 percent.

The 41st District covers northern areas of the county.

In Armstrong County, White got 22,222 votes, or 74 percent of the vote, while Deloreto got 22 percent and Buggey got about 4 percent.

“I’ll let the numbers speak for themselves,” White said.

White said he will go out “like a lion and not like a lamb.”

“I don’t plan on just walking off into the sunset and getting a gold watch,” he said. “I look to be very aggressive.”

Issues he said are of top priority include pension reform, improving infrastructure, finding better ways to pay for education and solving the opioid crisis.

“Pension reform has to get done,” he said. “If it doesn’t get done, this state is never going to reach its potential. That’s the pink elephant in the room.”

White also said with a Republican-controlled White House, “the greatest days are ahead” for the state and the 41st District.

For the opioid epidemic facing Pennsylvania, White said people need to be more educated on the issue and that medical doctors need to be better informed.

“It starts with people in our medical profession,” he said. “Their goal is to keep people out of pain, but at the same time I think they need to be retrained and understand the impact they have when giving open-ended prescriptions to people who may not need them.”

Deloreto said while he was defeated, he is glad he “made him (White) spend his money.

“I was proud of the support I got,” he said. “I have no regrets.”

Deloreto said depending on the support he gets, he may consider running again in 2020.

“I’m a moderate Democrat,” he said. “I think that’s the kind of Democrat you need to win in this district.”

Buggey said he “didn’t have a chance” to win the election. However, he said he accomplished his goal of raising awareness for his website and for creating jobs via geothermal energy systems.

“I have other ideas on gas wells, and the cost is so unbelievably low,” he said.

White said he plans on spending time with his grandson in Boston after his new term is up in 2020.

“By that time, he’ll be 5 years old,” he said. “It’s what I look forward to.”

He also said he thanks the people for supporting him over the years.