Two positions are open on the state's Superior Court. The body is made up of 15 members and is one of two statewide appeals courts. The judges are tasked with deciding disputes that do not involve the state government. The two positions are open because one judge aged out and the other decided not to run for retention.

There are six candidates, with an equal amount of Democrats and Republicans. Members of the party will have the option to pick two candidates; the ones with the highest vote tallies will move on to the general election in November. With the polls closing on Tuesday evening and the votes still being counted, only the unofficial count was available. The count was taken with 98 percent of the districts statewide reporting their election results.

For the Democrats, Amanda Green-Hawkins got 459,428 votes or 37.94 percent of the vote. Daniel D. McCaffery gained 387,307 votes or 31.98 percent. Beth Tarasi received 364,239 votes or 30.08 percent.

Green-Hawkins is an attorney for the United Steelworkers and a former Allegheny County councilman. According to her campaign website, she “fought for working families, the underprivileged and civil rights for years.”

McCaffery is a Court of Common Pleas judge in Philadelphia.

Tarasi is a former congressional candidate from Allegheny County with decades of legal experience as a lawyer, according to information found on her website.

For the Republicans here are the three candidates, along with their unofficial vote counts and their backgrounds.

Megan McCarthy King received 363,674 votes or 35.58 percent of the vote.

Christylee Peck received 342,461 votes or 33.51 percent of the vote.

Rebecca Warren received 315,911 votes or 30.91 percent of the vote.

King clerked for current state Supreme Court Chief Justice Thomas Saylor, and has served as an assistant district attorney in both Lancaster and Chester counties, handling cases of child and elder abuse.

Peck has experience as an assistant DA prosecuting child abuse. In 2011, she was elected to the Cumberland County bench and has served since.

Warren served as district attorney of Montour County from 2011 to 2015. On her website, she boasts doing legal work for President Donald Trump's campaign on ballot challenges and recount requests.