Assertion: dent | /r/CapableOf | win open 16th district senate seat
Facets:
value: in 1998
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: In 1998, Dent won an open 16th District Senate seat when Democrat Roy Afflerbach (who later served as Mayor of Allentown from 2002–06) retired to take up an ultimately unsuccessful bid for Congress.[citation needed]