Pennsylvania House Of Representatives Elections, 2018

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Elections in Pennsylvania, 2018

General election: Nov. 6
Voter registration deadline: Oct. 9
Early voting: N/A
Absentee voting deadline: Nov. 2

Online registration: Yes
Same-day registration: No
Voter ID: No
Poll times: 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

2018 Pennsylvania House elections

General	November 6, 2018
Primary	May 15, 2018

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Republicans maintained their majority in the 2018 elections for Pennsylvania House of Representatives despite losing seats, winning 110 seats to Democrats' 93. All 203 House seats were up for election. At the time of the election, Republicans held 120 seats to Democrats' 79, with four vacancies.

Pennsylvania maintained its status as a divided government in 2018, with Republicans retaining control of the state Senate and House and Democrats holding the governorship.

The Pennsylvania House of Representatives was one of 87 state legislative chambers holding elections in 2018. There are 99 chambers throughout the country.

Pennsylvania state representatives serve two-year terms, with all seats up for election every two years.

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1 Post-election analysis
- 1.1 National background
2 Candidates
3 General election
4 Primary election
- 4.1 Margins of victory
- 4.2 Seats flipped
- 4.3 Incumbents retiring
- 4.4 Process to become a candidate
  - 4.4.1 For party candidates
  - 4.4.2 For other candidates
  - 4.4.3 For write-in candidates
  - 4.4.4 Qualifications
  - 4.4.5 Salaries and per diem
  - 4.4.6 When sworn in
- 4.5 Pennsylvania political history
  - 4.5.1 Party control
    - 4.5.1.1 2018
    - 4.5.1.2 2016
  - 4.5.2 Trifectas
- 4.6 Wave election analysis
- 4.7 Competitiveness
  - 4.7.1 Results from 2016
  - 4.7.2 Historical context
- 4.8 Pivot Counties
  - 4.8.1 Presidential results by legislative district
- 4.9 See also
- 4.10 External links
- 4.11 Footnotes

Post-election analysis[edit]

See also: State legislative elections, 2018

The Republican Party maintained control of both chambers of the Pennsylvania General Assembly in the 2018 election, but the Pennsylvania State Senate lost its Republican supermajority status after it no longer held the minimum seats necessary. In the state Senate, 25 out of 50 seats were up for election. The Republican Pennsylvania State Senate majority was reduced from 33-16 to 29-21. One seat was vacant before the election. One Republican incumbent was defeated in the primary and two Republican incumbents were defeated in the general election.

The Pennsylvania House of Representatives held elections for all 203 seats. The Republican majority in the House of Representatives was reduced from 120-79 to 110-93. Four seats were vacant before the election. Three Democratic incumbents were defeated in the primary. Ten incumbents were defeated in the general election; two Democrats and eight Republicans.

National background[edit]

On November 6, 2018, 87 of the nation's 99 state legislative chambers held regularly scheduled elections for 6,073 of 7,383 total seats, meaning that nearly 82 percent of all state legislative seats were up for election.

Entering the 2018 election, Democrats held 42.6 percent, Republicans held 56.8 percent, and independents and other parties held 0.6 percent of the seats up for regular election.
Following the 2018 election, Democrats held 47.3 percent, Republicans held 52.3 percent, and independents and other parties held 0.4 percent of the seats up for regular election.
A total of 469 incumbents were defeated over the course of the election cycle, with roughly one-third of them defeated in the primary.

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Incumbents defeated in 2018's state legislative elections
2018 election analysis: Partisan balance of state legislative chambers
2018 election analysis: Number of state legislators by party
2018 election analysis: State legislative supermajorities

Candidates[edit]

See also: Statistics on state legislative candidates, 2018

General election[edit]

Pennsylvania House of Representatives General Election 2018
Incumbents are marked with an (i) after their name.
Office	Democratic	Republican	Other
District 1	Patrick Harkins (i)
District 2	Robert Merski	Timothy Kuzma
District 3	Ryan Bizzarro (i)
District 4		Curtis Sonney (i)
District 5		Barry Jozwiak (i)
District 6		Bradley Roae (i)
District 7	Mark Longietti (i)
District 8	Lisa Boeving-Learned	Tedd Nesbit (i)
District 9	Chris Sainato (i)	Gregory Michalek
District 10		Aaron Bernstine (i)	Darcelle Slappy (Green Party)
District 11		Brian Ellis (i)	Samuel Doctor (Independent)
District 12	Daniel Smith Jr.	Daryl Metcalfe (i)
District 13	Susannah Walker	John Lawrence (i)	Dominic Pirocchi (Libertarian Party)
District 14	Amy Fazio	Jim Marshall (i)
District 15	Terri Mitko	Joshua Kail
District 16	Robert Matzie (i)
District 17		Parke Wentling (i)
District 18	James Lamb III	Gene DiGirolamo (i)
District 19	Jake Wheatley Jr. (i)
District 20	Adam Ravenstahl (i)
District 21	Sara Innamorato
District 22	Peter Schweyer (i)
District 23	Dan Frankel (i)		Jay Walker (Green Party)
District 24	Edward Gainey (i)
District 25	Brandon Markosek	Stephen Schlauch
District 26	Pamela Hacker	Timothy Hennessey (i)
District 27	Daniel Deasy Jr. (i)
District 28	Emily Skopov	Mike Turzai (i)
District 29	Andrew Dixon	Meghan Schroeder Did not make the ballot: Bernard O'Neill (i)
District 30	Betsy Monroe	Lori Mizgorski Did not make the ballot: Hal English (i)
District 31	Perry Warren (i)	Ryan Gallagher
District 32	Anthony DeLuca (i)
District 33	Frank Dermody (i)	Joshua Nulph
District 34	Summer Lee
District 35	Austin Davis (i)
District 36	Harry Readshaw III (i)
District 37	Suzanne Delahunt	Mindy Fee (i)
District 38	William Kortz II (i)
District 39	Robert Rhoderick Jr.	Michael Puskaric
District 40	Sharon Guidi	Natalie Mihalek
District 41	Michele Wherley	Brett Miller (i)
District 42	Dan Miller (i)
District 43	Jennie Porter	Keith Greiner (i)
District 44	Michele Knoll	Valerie Gaydos
District 45	Anita Astorino Kulik (i)
District 46	Byron Timmins	Jason Ortitay (i)
District 47	Michael Wascovich	Keith Gillespie (i)
District 48	Clark Mitchell Jr.	Timothy O'Neal
District 49	Steven Toprani	Bud Cook (i)
District 50	Pam Snyder (i)	Betsy Rohanna McClure
District 51	Timothy Mahoney	Matthew Dowling (i)
District 52	Ethan Keedy	Ryan Warner (i)
District 53	Steven Malagari	George Szekely II	John Waldenberger (Libertarian Party)
District 54	Jonathan McCabe	Robert Brooks
District 55	Joseph Petrarca (i)
District 56	Douglas Hunt	George Dunbar (i)
District 57	Collin Warren	Eric Nelson (i)
District 58	Mary Popovich	Justin Walsh (i)
District 59	Clare Dooley	Mike Reese (i)
District 60		Jeffrey Pyle (i)
District 61	Liz Hanbidge	Catherine Harper (i)
District 62	Logan Dellafiora	James Struzzi II	Did not make the ballot: Daniel Wilson (Independent)
District 63	Conrad Warner	Donna Oberlander (i)
District 64	John Kluck	R. Lee James (i)
District 65		Kathy Rapp (i)
District 66	Kerith Taylor	Cris Dush (i)
District 67	Maryanne Cole	Martin Causer (i)
District 68	Carrie Heath	Clint Owlett (i)
District 69	Jeff Cole	Carl Metzgar (i)
District 70	Matthew Bradford (i)	Christopher Mundiath
District 71	Bryan Barbin (i)	James Rigby
District 72	Frank Burns (i)	Gerald Carnicella
District 73		Thomas Sankey (i)
District 74	Dan Williams	Amber Little Turner
District 75		Matt Gabler (i)
District 76	Michael Hanna Jr.	Stephanie Borowicz
District 77	H. Scott Conklin (i)
District 78	Deborah Baughman	Jesse Topper (i)
District 79		Louis Schmitt Jr.
District 80	Laura Burke	James Gregory
District 81	Richard Rogers Sr.	Richard Irvin (i)	Joseph Soloski (Libertarian Party)
District 82	Did not make the ballot: Kimberly Hart	Johnathan Hershey	Elizabeth Book (Independent)
District 83	Airneezer Page-Delahaye	Jeff Wheeland (i)
District 84	Linda Sosniak	Garth Everett (i)
District 85	Jennifer Rager-Kay	Fred Keller (i)
District 86	Karen Anderson	Mark Keller (i)
District 87	Sean Quinlan	Greg Rothman (i)
District 88	Jean Marie Foschi	Sheryl Delozier (i)
District 89		Rob Kauffman (i)
District 90		Paul Schemel (i)
District 91	Marty Qually	Dan Moul (i)
District 92	Shanna Danielson	Dawn Keefer (i)
District 93	Delma Rivera-Lytle Did not make the ballot: Meggan O'Rourke	Mike Jones
District 94	Stephen Snell	Stanley Saylor (i)
District 95	Carol Hill-Evans (i)
District 96	P. Michael Sturla (i)
District 97	Dana Hamp Gulick	Steven Mentzer (i)
District 98	Mary Auker-Endres	David Hickernell (i)	James Miller (Libertarian Party)
District 99	Elizabeth Malarkey	David H. Zimmerman (i)
District 100	Dale Hamby	Bryan Cutler (i)
District 101	Cesar Liriano	Francis Ryan (i)
District 102		Russell Diamond (i)
District 103	Patty Kim (i)	Anthony Harrell
District 104	Patty Smith	Susan Helm (i)
District 105	Eric Epstein	Andrew Lewis
District 106	Jill Linta	Thomas Mehaffie (i)
District 107	Sarah Donnelly	Kurt Masser (i)
District 108		Lynda Schlegel Culver (i)
District 109	Edward Sanders III	David Millard (i)
District 110	Donna Iannone	Tina Pickett (i)
District 111	Rebecca Kinney	Jonathan Fritz (i)
District 112	Kyle Mullins	Ernest Lemoncelli
District 113	Martin Flynn (i)
District 114	Sid Michaels Kavulich (i)
District 115	Maureen Madden (i)	David Parker
District 116		Tarah Toohil (i)
District 117		Karen Boback (i)	Lou Jasikoff (Libertarian Party)
District 118	Mike Carroll (i)
District 119	Gerald Mullery (i)	Justin Behrens
District 120		Aaron Kaufer (i)
District 121	Eddie Day Pashinski (i)	Sue Henry Did not make the ballot: Gregory Wolovich Jr.
District 122	Kara Scott	Doyle Heffley (i)
District 123	Neal Goodman (i)
District 124		Jerry Knowles (i)
District 125		Mike Tobash (i)
District 126	Mark Rozzi (i)
District 127	Thomas Caltagirone (i)	Vincent Gagliardo Jr.
District 128	Douglas Metcalfe	Mark Gillen (i)
District 129	Tricia Wertz	Jim Cox (i)
District 130		David Maloney (i)
District 131	Andrew Lee	Justin Simmons (i)
District 132	Michael Schlossberg (i)
District 133	Jeanne McNeill (i)
District 134	Thomas Applebach	Ryan Mackenzie (i)
District 135	Steve Samuelson (i)
District 136	Robert Freeman (i)
District 137	Amy Cozze	Joe Emrick (i)	Ed Reagan (Libertarian Party)
District 138	Dean Donaher	Marcia Hahn (i)	Jake Towne (Libertarian Party)
District 139	Orlando Marrero	Michael Peifer (i)
District 140	John Galloway (i)
District 141	Tina Davis (i)	Anthony Sposato
District 142	Lauren Lareau	Frank Farry (i)
District 143	Wendy Ullman	Joseph Flood
District 144	Meredith Buck	F. Todd Polinchock
District 145	Brian Kline	Craig Staats (i)
District 146	Joseph Ciresi	Thomas Quigley (i)
District 147	Joshua Camson	Marcy Toepel (i)
District 148	Mary Jo Daley (i)
District 149	Tim Briggs (i)
District 150	Joseph Webster	Nick Fountain Did not make the ballot: Michael Corr (i)
District 151	Sara Johnson Rothman	Todd Stephens (i)
District 152	Daryl Boling	Thomas Murt (i)
District 153	Ben Sanchez Did not make the ballot: Madeleine Dean (i)	Douglas Beaver Jr.	Marc Bozzacco (Libertarian Party)
District 154	Steve McCarter (i)	Kathleen Bowers
District 155	Danielle Friel Otten	Becky Corbin (i)
District 156	Carolyn Comitta (i)	Nicholas Deminski
District 157	Melissa Shusterman	Warren Kampf (i)
District 158	Christina Sappey	Eric Roe (i)
District 159	Brian Kirkland (i)	Ruth Moton
District 160	Anton Andrew	Stephen Barrar (i)
District 161	Leanne Krueger-Braneky (i)	Patti Rodgers Morrisette
District 162	David Delloso	Mary Hopper
District 163	Michael Zabel	Jamie Santora (i)
District 164	Margo Davidson (i)	Inderjit Bains
District 165	Jennifer O'Mara	Alexander Charlton (i)
District 166	Gregory Vitali (i)	Baltazar Rubio
District 167	Kristine Howard	Duane Milne (i)
District 168	Kristin Seale	Christopher Quinn (i)
District 169	Sarah Hammond	Kate Klunk (i)
District 170	Michael Doyle Jr.	Martina White (i)
District 171	Erin McCracken	Kerry Benninghoff (i)
District 172	Kevin Boyle (i)
District 173	Michael Driscoll (i)
District 174	Ed Neilson (i)
District 175	Mary Isaacson Did not make the ballot: Michael O'Brien (i)
District 176	Claudette Williams	Jack Rader (i)
District 177	Joseph Hohenstein	Patty Kozlowski
District 178	Helen Tai (i)	Wendi Thomas
District 179	Jason Dawkins (i)
District 180	Angel Cruz (i)
District 181	Malcolm Kenyatta	Milton Street
District 182	Brian Sims (i)		James McDevitt (Independent)
District 183	Jason Ruff	Zachary Mako (i)
District 184	Elizabeth Fiedler
District 185	Maria Donatucci (i)
District 186	Jordan Harris (i)
District 187	Michael Blichar Jr. Did not make the ballot: Archie Follweiler	Gary Day (i)
District 188	James Roebuck Jr. (i)
District 189	Adam Rodriguez	Rosemary Brown (i)
District 190	Vanessa Lowery Brown (i)
District 191	Joanna McClinton (i)
District 192	Morgan Cephas (i)
District 193	Matthew Nelson	Torren Ecker
District 194	Pamela DeLissio (i)	Sean Stevens	Matt Baltsar (Libertarian Party)
District 195	Donna Bullock (i)
District 196		Seth Grove (i)
District 197	Danilo Burgos
District 198	Rosita Youngblood (i)
District 199	Joseph McGinnis Jr.	Barbara Gleim	Charles Boust (Libertarian Party)
District 200	Christopher Rabb (i)
District 201	Stephen Kinsey (i)
District 202	Jared Solomon (i)
District 203	Isabella Fitzgerald (i)

Primary election[edit]

Pennsylvania House of Representatives primary candidates
District	Democrat	Republican	Other
1	Patrick Harkins (I) a	No candidate
2	Jay Breneman Richard Filippi Robert Merski a	Timothy Kuzma a Laban Marsh
3	Ryan Bizzarro (I) a	No candidate
4	No candidate	Curtis Sonney (I) a
5	No candidate	Barry J. Jozwiak (I) a
6	No candidate	Bradley Roae (I) a
7	Mark Longietti (I) a	No candidate
8	Lisa Boeving-Learned a	Tedd Nesbit (I) a
9	Chris Sainato (I) a	Gregory Michalek a
10	No candidate	Aaron Bernstine (I) a
11	No candidate	Brian Ellis (I) a
12	Honora Rockar Daniel Smith Jr. a	Daryl Metcalfe (I) a
13	Susannah Walker a	John Lawrence (I) a
14	Amy Fazio a	Jim Marshall (I) a
15	No candidate	Joshua Kail a
16	Robert Matzie (I) a	No candidate
17	No candidate	Parke Wentling (I) a
18	James Lamb III a	Gene DiGirolamo (I) a
19	Jake Wheatley Jr. (I) a Aerion Abney Ebony Taylor	No candidate
20	Adam Ravenstahl (I) a Michael Devine	No candidate
21	Dominic Costa (I) Sara Innamorato a	No candidate
22	Peter Schweyer (I) a	No candidate
23	Dan Frankel (I) a	No candidate
24	Edward Gainey (I) a William Anderson Todd Koger	No candidate
25	Brandon Markosek a	Stephen Schlauch a
26	Pamela Hacker a	Timothy Hennessey (I) a
27	Daniel Deasy Jr. (I) a	No candidate
28	Emily Skopov a	Mike Turzai (I) a
29	Andrew Dixon a	Bernard O'Neill (I) a
30	Kareem Kandil Betsy Monroe a Jacob Pavlecic	Hal English (I) a
31	Perry Warren (I) a	Ryan Gallagher a
32	Anthony DeLuca (I) a Erin Vecchio	No candidate
33	Frank Dermody (I) a	Joshua Nulph a
34	Paul Costa (I) Summer Lee a	No candidate
35	Austin Davis (I) a	No candidate
36	Harry Readshaw III (I) a	No candidate
37	Suzanne Delahunt a	Mindy Fee (I) a
38	William Kortz II (I) a	No candidate
39	Robert Rhoderick Jr. a	Michael Puskaric a
40	Edward Eichenlaub Sharon Guidi a	Paul Dixon Natalie Mihalek a James Roman
41	Michele Wherley a	Brett Miller (I) a
42	Dan Miller (I) a	No candidate
43	Jennie Porter a	Keith Greiner (I) a
44	Michele Knoll a	David Bachman Robert Doddato Valerie Gaydos a Scott Larue
45	Anita Astorino Kulik (I) a	No candidate
46	Rueben Brock Byron Timmins a	Jason Ortitay (I) a
47	Michael Wascovich a	Keith Gillespie (I) a
48	Clark Mitchell Jr. a Joseph Zupancic	Timothy O'Neal a
49	Randy Barli Steven Toprani a	Bud Cook (I) a
50	Pam Snyder (I) a	Betsy Rohanna McClure a
51	Timothy Mahoney a	Matthew Dowling (I) a
52	Ethan Keedy a	Ryan Warner (I) a
53	Leon Angelichio Steven Malagari a	George Szekely II a
54	Robert Bertha Jonathan McCabe a	Robert Brooks a Bryan Kline Michael Korns Jr. Maryalice Newborn
55	Joseph Petrarca (I) a	No candidate
56	Douglas Hunt a	George Dunbar (I) a
57	Collin Warren a	Eric Nelson (I) a
58	Mary Popovich a	Justin Walsh (I) a
59	Clare Dooley a	Mike Reese (I) a
60	No candidate	Jeffrey Pyle (I) a
61	Liz Hanbidge a	Catherine Harper (I) a
62	Logan Dellafiora a Aaron Lehman	Julie Anderson Mike Baker Shane Caylor James Struzzi II a
63	Conrad Warner a	Donna Oberlander (I) a
64	John Kluck a	R. Lee James (I) a
65	No candidate	Kathy Rapp (I) a
66	Kerith Taylor a	Cris Dush (I) a
67	No candidate	Martin Causer (I) a
68	Carrie Heath a	Mark Hamilton Clint Owlett a Dennis Weaver
69	Jeff Cole a	Carl Metzgar (I) a
70	Matthew Bradford (I) a	Christopher Mundiath a
71	Bryan Barbin (I) a	Justin Capouellez James Rigby a Joseph Sernell
72	Frank Burns (I) a	Gerald Carnicella a
73	No candidate	Thomas Sankey (I) a
74	Joshua Maxwell Frank Pryor Dan Williams a	Amber Turner a
75	No candidate	Matt Gabler (I) a
76	Michael Hanna Jr. a	Stephanie Borowicz a
77	H. Scott Conklin (I) a	No candidate
78	Deborah Baughman a	Jesse Topper (I) a
79	No candidate	Sharon Bream Louis Schmitt Jr. a
80	Laura Burke a	Christopher Creek James Gregory a
81	Richard Rogers Sr. a	Richard Irvin (I) a
82	Kimberly Hart a	Joshua Fultz Johnathan Hershey a James Junkin Beth Laughlin Jerald Leach Tracy Powell Markle Terrance Shepler Nicole Sherlock-King Joseph Ughetto II
83	Airneezer Page-Delahaye a	Jeff Wheeland (I) a
84	Linda Sosniak a	Garth Everett (I) a
85	Jennifer Rager-Kay a	Fred Keller (I) a
86	Karen Anderson a	Mark K. Keller (I) a
87	Sean Quinlan a	Greg Rothman (I) a
88	Jean Marie Foschi a	Sheryl Delozier (I) a
89	No candidate	Rob Kauffman (I) a
90	No candidate	Paul Schemel (I) a
91	Marty Qually a	Dan Moul (I) a Holland Kurt
92	Shanna Danielson a	Dawn Keefer (I) a Joshua Hershey Curtis Werner
93	Meggan O'Rourke a	Matthew Jansen Mike Jones a
94	Stephen Snell a	Stanley Saylor (I) a
95	Carol Hill-Evans (I) a	No candidate
96	P. Michael Sturla (I) a	No candidate
97	Dana Hamp Gulick a	Steven Mentzer (I) a
98	Mary Auker-Endres a	David Hickernell (I) a
99	No candidate	David H. Zimmerman (I) a
100	No candidate	Bryan Cutler (I) a
101	Cesar Liriano a	Francis Ryan (I) a
102	No candidate	Russell Diamond (I) a
103	Patty Kim (I) a	Anthony Harrell a
104	Patricia Smith a	Susan Helm (I) a
105	Eric Epstein a	Adam Klein Andrew Lewis a
106	Jill Linta a Robert Myers III	Thomas Mehaffie (I) a
107	Sarah Donnelly a	Kurt Masser (I) a
108	No candidate	Lynda Schlegel Culver (I) a
109	Edward Sanders III a	David Millard (I) a
110	Donna Iannone a	Tina Pickett (I) a
111	Rebecca Kinney a	Jonathan Fritz (I) a
112	Thomas Carlucci Randy Castellani Robert Castellani Francis McHale Kyle Mullins a	Ernest Lemoncelli a
113	Martin Flynn (I) a	No candidate
114	Sid Michaels Kavulich (I) a	No candidate
115	Maureen Madden (I) a	David Parker a
116	No candidate	Tarah Toohil (I) a
117	No candidate	Karen Boback (I) a
118	Mike Carroll (I) a	No candidate
119	Gerald Mullery (I) a	Justin Behrens a
120	No candidate	Aaron Kaufer (I) a
121	Eddie Day Pashinski (I) a	Gregory Wolovich Jr. a
122	Kara Scott a	Doyle Heffley (I) a
123	Neal Goodman (I) a	No candidate
124	No candidate	Jerry Knowles (I) a
125	No candidate	Mike Tobash (I) a
126	Mark Rozzi (I) a	No candidate
127	Thomas Caltagirone (I) a Manuel Guzman Jr.	Vincent Gagliardo Jr. a
128	Douglas Metcalfe a	Mark Gillen (I) a
129	Tricia Wertz a	Jim Cox (I) a
130	No candidate	David Maloney (I) a
131	Andrew Lee a	Justin Simmons (I) a Bev Plosa-Bowser
132	Michael Schlossberg (I) a	No candidate
133	Jeanne McNeill (I) a	No candidate
134	Thomas Applebach a	Ryan Mackenzie (I) a Ronald Beitler
135	Steve Samuelson (I) a	No candidate
136	Robert Freeman (I) a	No candidate
137	Amy Cozze a	Joe Emrick (I) a
138	Dean Donaher a	Marcia Hahn (I) a
139	Orlando Marrero a	Michael Peifer (I) a
140	John Galloway (I) a	No candidate
141	Tina Davis (I) a	Anthony Sposato a
142	Lauren Lareau a	Frank Farry (I) a
143	Timothy Brennan Wendy Ullman a	Joseph Flood a
144	Meredith Buck a	F. Todd Polinchock a
145	Brian Kline a	Craig Staats (I) a
146	Joseph Ciresi a	Thomas Quigley (I) a
147	Joshua Camson a	Marcy Toepel (I) a
148	Mary Jo Daley (I) a	No candidate
149	Tim Briggs (I) a	No candidate
150	Joseph Webster a	Michael Corr (I) a
151	Sara Johnson Rothman a	Todd Stephens (I) a
152	Daryl Boling a	Thomas Murt (I) a
153	Madeleine Dean (I) a	Douglas Beaver Jr. a
154	Steve McCarter (I) a	Kathleen Bowers a
155	Ronald Graham Danielle Otten a	Becky Corbin (I) a
156	Carolyn Comitta (I) a	Nicholas Deminski a
157	Melissa Shusterman a	Warren Kampf (I) a
158	Christina Sappey a	Eric Roe (I) a William Westbrook Jr.
159	Brian Kirkland (I) a	Ruth Moton a
160	Anton Andrew a Catherine Spahr	Stephen Barrar (I) a
161	Leanne Krueger-Braneky (I) a	Patti Rodgers Morrisette a
162	David Delloso a	No candidate
163	Michael Zabel a	Jamie Santora (I) a
164	Margo Davidson (I) a	Inderjit Bains a
165	Jennifer Omara a	Alexander Charlton (I) a Regina Scheerer
166	Gregory Vitali (I) a	Baltazar Rubio a
167	Kristine Howard a Jeffrey McFall	Duane Milne (I) a
168	Philip Block Kristin Seale a	Christopher Quinn (I) a
169	Sarah Hammond a	Kate Anne Klunk (I) a
170	Michael Doyle Jr. a	Martina White (I) a
171	Erin McCracken a	Kerry Benninghoff (I) a
172	Kevin Boyle (I) a	No candidate
173	Michael Driscoll (I) a	No candidate
174	Edward Neilson (I) a	No candidate
175	Michael O'Brien (I) a Deborah Derricks	No candidate
176	Tia-Marie Fritz Claudette Williams a	Jack Rader Jr. (I) a
177	Margaret Borski Joseph Hohenstein a Sean Kilkenny Daniel Martino	Patty Kozlowski a
178	Helen Tai a	Wendi Thomas a
179	Jason Dawkins (I) a Abu Edwards	No candidate
180	Angel Cruz (I) a	No candidate
181	Jason Deering Gilberto Gonzalez Malcolm Kenyatta a Lewis Nash Sr. Lewis Thomas III	Thomas Street a
182	Brian Sims (I) a	No candidate
183	Jason Ruff a	Zachary Mako (I) a Cynthia Miller
184	Nicholas Didonato Jr. Elizabeth Fiedler a Jonathan Rowan Thomas Wyatt	No candidate
185	Maria Donatucci (I) a	No candidate
186	Jordan Harris (I) a	No candidate
187	Archie Follweiler a	Gary Day (I) a
188	James Roebuck Jr. (I) a Jeffrey Curry Diane Settles	No candidate
189	Christa Caceres Adam Rodriguez a	Rosemary Brown (I) a
190	Vanessa Lowery Brown (I) a Raymond Bailey Sr. Wanda Logan	No candidate
191	Joanna McClinton (I) a	No candidate
192	Morgan Cephas (I) a	No candidate
193	Matthew Nelson a	Vincent Cockley Torren Ecker a Andrew Myers John Wardle
194	Pamela DeLissio (I) a	Sean Stevens a
195	Donna Bullock (I) a	No candidate
196	No candidate	Seth Grove (I) a
197	Emilio Vazquez (I) Danilo Burgos a Frederick Ramirez	No candidate
198	Rosita Youngblood (I) a Bernard Williams	No candidate
199	Joseph McGinnis Jr. a	Barbara Gleim a Jason Kelso
200	Christopher Rabb (I) a Melissa Scott	No candidate
201	Stephen Kinsey (I) a	No candidate
202	Jared Solomon (I) a	No candidate
203	Isabella Fitzgerald (I) a	No candidate
Notes	• An (I) denotes an incumbent.
	• Candidate lists can change frequently throughout an election season. Ballotpedia staff update this list monthly. To suggest changes, click here to email our State Legislature Project.

Margins of victory[edit]

See also: Margin of victory analysis for the 2018 state legislative elections

A margin of victory (MOV) analysis for the 2018 Pennsylvania House of Representatives races is presented in this section. MOV represents the percentage of total votes that separated the winner and the second-place finisher. For example, if the winner of a race received 47 percent of the vote and the second-place finisher received 45 percent of the vote, the MOV is 2 percent.

The table below presents the following figures for each party:

Elections won
Elections won by less than 10 percentage points
Elections won without opposition
Average margin of victory^[1]

Pennsylvania House of Representatives: 2018 Margin of Victory Analysis
Party	Elections won	Elections won by less than 10%	Unopposed elections	Average margin of victory^[1]
Democratic	93	11	53	27.9%
Republican	110	20	19	24.8%
Other	0	0	0	N/A
Total	203	31	72	26.3%

The margin of victory in each race is presented below. The list is sorted from the closest MOV to the largest (including unopposed races).

Pennsylvania House of Representatives: 2018 Margin of Victory by District
District	Winning Party	Losing Party	Margin of Victory
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 49	Republican	Democratic	0.1%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 168	Republican	Democratic	1.3%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 165	Democratic	Republican	1.6%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 105	Republican	Democratic	1.6%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 178	Republican	Democratic	1.7%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 143	Democratic	Republican	1.7%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 144	Republican	Democratic	1.9%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 160	Republican	Democratic	2.7%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 151	Republican	Democratic	3.0%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 162	Democratic	Republican	3.1%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 53	Democratic	Republican	3.2%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 44	Republican	Democratic	3.4%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 71	Republican	Democratic	4.3%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 167	Democratic	Republican	4.3%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 29	Republican	Democratic	4.4%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 30	Republican	Democratic	4.6%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 72	Democratic	Republican	4.8%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 26	Republican	Democratic	5.6%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 131	Republican	Democratic	5.6%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 119	Democratic	Republican	6.1%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 163	Democratic	Republican	6.7%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 158	Democratic	Republican	6.9%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 76	Republican	Democratic	7.4%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 61	Democratic	Republican	7.5%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 28	Republican	Democratic	8.9%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 104	Republican	Democratic	9.0%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 106	Republican	Democratic	9.2%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 155	Democratic	Republican	9.3%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 176	Republican	Democratic	9.5%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 129	Republican	Democratic	9.9%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 152	Republican	Democratic	10.0%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 13	Republican	Democratic	10.0%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 51	Republican	Democratic	10.9%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 146	Democratic	Republican	11.1%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 46	Republican	Democratic	11.3%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 33	Democratic	Republican	11.4%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 48	Republican	Democratic	11.4%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 39	Republican	Democratic	11.6%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 137	Republican	Democratic	11.7%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 150	Democratic	Republican	12.0%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 142	Republican	Democratic	12.1%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 40	Republican	Democratic	12.1%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 41	Republican	Democratic	12.5%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 156	Democratic	Republican	13.0%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 145	Republican	Democratic	13.0%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 18	Republican	Democratic	13.1%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 157	Democratic	Republican	13.2%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 87	Republican	Democratic	13.2%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 97	Republican	Democratic	13.3%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 183	Republican	Democratic	13.3%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 147	Republican	Democratic	13.3%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 50	Democratic	Republican	13.5%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 9	Democratic	Republican	13.7%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 134	Republican	Democratic	14.6%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 121	Democratic	Republican	14.6%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 170	Republican	Democratic	15.2%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 25	Democratic	Republican	15.3%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 88	Republican	Democratic	16.2%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 62	Republican	Democratic	16.4%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 12	Republican	Democratic	16.7%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 189	Republican	Democratic	17.1%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 138	Republican	Democratic	17.2%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 161	Democratic	Republican	18.2%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 171	Republican	Democratic	18.3%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 187	Republican	Democratic	18.7%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 177	Democratic	Republican	18.9%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 199	Republican	Democratic	19.4%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 54	Republican	Democratic	19.7%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 31	Democratic	Republican	19.9%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 115	Democratic	Republican	20.2%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 128	Republican	Democratic	20.8%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 52	Republican	Democratic	22.3%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 15	Republican	Democratic	22.9%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 74	Democratic	Republican	22.9%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 58	Republican	Democratic	23.4%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 141	Democratic	Republican	24.3%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 43	Republican	Democratic	24.8%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 57	Republican	Democratic	25.6%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 56	Republican	Democratic	25.9%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 91	Republican	Democratic	26.1%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 14	Republican	Democratic	26.2%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 81	Republican	Democratic	27.9%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 47	Republican	Democratic	28.6%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 101	Republican	Democratic	28.9%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 2	Democratic	Republican	29.8%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 98	Republican	Democratic	31.4%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 93	Republican	Democratic	31.8%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 83	Republican	Democratic	31.9%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 109	Republican	Democratic	32.5%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 94	Republican	Democratic	32.6%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 122	Republican	Democratic	34.2%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 107	Republican	Democratic	35.0%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 64	Republican	Democratic	35.1%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 85	Republican	Democratic	35.5%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 193	Republican	Democratic	35.8%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 139	Republican	Democratic	36.9%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 92	Republican	Democratic	38.5%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 70	Democratic	Republican	38.6%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 112	Democratic	Republican	39.4%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 59	Republican	Democratic	40.6%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 169	Republican	Democratic	41.1%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 8	Republican	Democratic	41.6%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 110	Republican	Democratic	42.4%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 153	Democratic	Republican	42.6%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 99	Republican	Democratic	42.9%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 111	Republican	Democratic	43.4%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 86	Republican	Democratic	43.8%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 100	Republican	Democratic	44.1%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 37	Republican	Democratic	45.3%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 166	Democratic	Republican	45.5%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 63	Republican	Democratic	46.2%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 80	Republican	Democratic	48.7%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 159	Democratic	Republican	52.9%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 11	Republican	Independent	53.0%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 68	Republican	Democratic	53.8%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 10	Republican	Green Party	56.4%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 67	Republican	Democratic	57.5%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 84	Republican	Democratic	57.9%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 69	Republican	Democratic	58.3%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 78	Republican	Democratic	58.4%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 194	Democratic	Republican	58.7%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 66	Republican	Democratic	59.1%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 127	Democratic	Republican	59.9%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 154	Democratic	Republican	62.9%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 117	Republican	Libertarian	64.2%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 82	Republican	Independent	65.1%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 164	Democratic	Republican	66.0%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 103	Democratic	Republican	68.0%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 23	Democratic	Green Party	81.1%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 182	Democratic	Independent	81.1%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 181	Democratic	Republican	90.6%
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 1	Democratic	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 102	Republican	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 108	Republican	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 113	Democratic	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 114	Democratic	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 116	Republican	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 118	Democratic	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 120	Republican	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 123	Democratic	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 124	Republican	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 125	Republican	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 126	Democratic	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 130	Republican	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 132	Democratic	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 133	Democratic	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 135	Democratic	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 136	Democratic	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 140	Democratic	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 148	Democratic	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 149	Democratic	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 16	Democratic	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 17	Republican	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 172	Democratic	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 173	Democratic	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 174	Democratic	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 180	Democratic	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 185	Democratic	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 186	Democratic	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 191	Democratic	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 192	Democratic	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 195	Democratic	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 196	Republican	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 201	Democratic	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 202	Democratic	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 203	Democratic	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 22	Democratic	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 27	Democratic	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 3	Democratic	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 35	Democratic	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 36	Democratic	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 38	Democratic	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 4	Republican	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 42	Democratic	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 45	Democratic	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 5	Republican	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 55	Democratic	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 6	Republican	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 60	Republican	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 65	Republican	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 7	Democratic	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 73	Republican	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 75	Republican	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 77	Democratic	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 89	Republican	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 90	Republican	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 95	Democratic	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 96	Democratic	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 19	Democratic	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 20	Democratic	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 21	Democratic	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 24	Democratic	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 32	Democratic	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 34	Democratic	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 175	Democratic	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 179	Democratic	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 184	Democratic	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 188	Democratic	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 189	Democratic	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 197	Democratic	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 198	Democratic	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 200	Democratic	None	Unopposed
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 79	Republican	None	Unopposed

Seats flipped[edit]

See also: State legislative seats that changed party control, 2018

The below map displays each seat in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives which changed partisan hands as a result of the 2018 elections, shaded according to the partisan affiliation of the winner in 2018. Hover over a shaded district for more information.

State legislative seats flipped in 2018, Pennsylvania House of Representatives
District	Incumbent	2018 winner	Direction of flip
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 143	Marguerite Quinn	Wendy Ullman	R to D
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 146	Thomas Quigley	Joseph Ciresi	R to D
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 150	Michael Corr	Joseph Webster	R to D
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 155	Becky Corbin	Danielle Otten	R to D
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 157	Warren Kampf	Melissa Shusterman	R to D
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 158	Eric Roe	Christina Sappey	R to D
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 162	Nick Miccarelli	David Delloso	R to D
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 163	Jamie Santora	Michael Zabel	R to D
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 165	Alexander Charlton	Jennifer O'Mara	R to D
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 167	Duane Milne	Kristine Howard	R to D
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 177	John Taylor	Joseph Hohenstein	R to D
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 178	Helen Tai	Wendi Thomas	D to R
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 53	Robert Godshall	Steven Malagari	R to D
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 61	Catherine Harper	Liz Hanbidge	R to D
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 71	Bryan Barbin	James Rigby	D to R
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 74	Harry Lewis, Jr.	Dan Williams	R to D
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 76	Michael Hanna, Sr.	Stephanie Borowicz	D to R

Incumbents retiring[edit]

Thirty-one incumbents did not run for re-election in 2018.^[2] Those incumbents were:

Name	Party	Office
Florindo Fabrizio	Democratic	House District 2
Jim Christiana	Republican	House District 15
Joseph Markosek	Democratic	House District 25
Bernard O'Neill	Republican	House District 29
Hal English	Republican	House District 30
Rick Saccone	Republican	House District 39
John Maher	Republican	House District 40
T. Mark Mustio	Republican	House District 44
Brandon Neuman	Democratic	House District 48
Robert Godshall	Republican	House District 53
Eli Evankovich	Republican	House District 54
Dave Reed	Republican	House District 62
Harry Lewis Jr.	Republican	House District 74
Michael Hanna Sr.	Democratic	House District 76
John McGinnis	Republican	House District 79
Judith Ward	Republican	House District 80
C. Adam Harris	Republican	House District 82
Kristin Hill	Republican	House District 93
Ronald Marsico	Republican	House District 105
Kevin Haggerty	Democratic	House District 112
Marguerite Quinn	Republican	House District 143
Katharine Watson	Republican	House District 144
Michael Corr	Republican	House District 150
Madeleine Dean	Democratic	House District 153
Nick Miccarelli	Republican	House District 162
Michael O'Brien	Democratic	House District 175
John Taylor	Republican	House District 177
W. Curtis Thomas	Democratic	House District 181
William Keller	Democratic	House District 184
Will Tallman	Republican	House District 193
Stephen Bloom	Republican	House District 199

Process to become a candidate[edit]

See also: Ballot access requirements for political candidates in Pennsylvania

Generally speaking, there are two types of petition forms that prospective candidates may need to file in order to gain access to the ballot.

Nomination petitions: These are the petition forms used by political party candidates.
Nomination papers: These are the petition forms used by independent and political party designation candidates.

For party candidates[edit]

See statutes: Article 9, Part (a) of the Pennsylvania Election Code

Party candidates for state office must file nomination petitions with the Pennsylvania Secretary of State. Signature requirements are summarized below (for more information regarding nomination petitions, see "Nomination petitions" below).^[3]^[4]

Nomination petition signature requirements in Pennsylvania
Office sought	Required signatures
United States Senator	2,000
Governor	2,000, including at least 100 signatures from each of at least 10 counties
Lieutenant governor, treasurer, auditor general, attorney general	1,000, including at least 100 signatures from each of at least 5 counties
United States Representative	1,000
State senator	500
State representative	300

Each candidate must file a candidate affidavit with his or her nomination petition. The affidavit must include the candidate's address, election district, the name of the office being sought, a statement verifying the candidate's eligibility for said office, and a statement verifying that the candidate will not "knowingly violate any provision of this act [i.e., the election code], or of any law regulating and limiting nomination and election expenses and prohibiting corrupt practices in connection therewith."^[5]

The candidate must also pay a filing fee. Filing fees must be submitted with nomination petitions. Fees are summarized in the table below.^[6]

Filing fees in Pennsylvania
Office sought	Fee
United States Senator, governor, lieutenant governor, treasurer, auditor general, attorney general	$200
United States Representative	$150
State legislator	$100

In addition, a candidate for state office must file a statement of financial interests with the state ethics commission. A copy of this statement must be attached to the nomination petition submitted to the Pennsylvania Secretary of State, as well.

In 2014, the state began offering a web service for party candidates to print personalized nomination petitions.^[7]^[8]

For other candidates[edit]

See statutes: Article 9, Part (b) of the Pennsylvania Election Code

Like party candidates participating in the primary, independent, minor political party, and political body candidates for state office (including the Pennsylvania General Assembly) must submit candidate affidavits and statements of financial interests to the Pennsylvania Secretary of State. Candidates must also pay the same filing fees as primary candidates. Independent, minor party, and political body candidates must also file nomination papers (not to be confused with the nomination petitions party candidates participating in the primary must complete). Candidates filing nomination papers must obtain signatures from electors of the district equal to at least 2 percent of the largest entire vote cast for an elected candidate in the last election within the district.^[9]^[10] For more information regarding nomination papers, see "Nomination papers" below.^[11]

For write-in candidates[edit]

Pennsylvania does not require write-in candidates to file paperwork in order to have their votes tallied.^[12]

Qualifications[edit]

See also: State legislature candidate requirements by state

Under Article II of the Pennsylvania Constitution, senators shall be at least twenty-five years of age and representatives twenty-one years of age. They shall have been citizens and inhabitants of their respective districts one year before their election (unless absent on the public business of the United States or of this State) and shall reside in their respective districts during their terms of service.

Salaries and per diem[edit]

See also: Comparison of state legislative salaries

State legislators
Salary	Per diem
$90,335/year	$178/day

When sworn in[edit]

See also: When state legislators assume office after a general election

Pennsylvania legislators' terms officially begin on December 1 the year of their election. However, legislators take the oath of office the first Tuesday in January.

Pennsylvania political history[edit]

See also: Partisan composition of state houses and State government trifectas

Party control[edit]

2018[edit]

In the 2018 elections, the Republican majority in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives was reduced from 120-79 to 110-93.

Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Party		As of November 6, 2018	After November 7, 2018
	Democratic Party	79	93
	Republican Party	120	110
	Vacancy	4	0
Total		203	203

2016[edit]

In the 2016 elections, Republicans increased their majority in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 119-84 to 121-82.

Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Party		As of November 7, 2016	After November 8, 2016
	Democratic Party	84	82
	Republican Party	119	121
Total		203	203

Trifectas[edit]

A state government trifecta is a term that describes single-party government, when one political party holds the governor's office and has majorities in both chambers of the legislature in a state government. Democratic Governor Tom Wolf won election in 2014, moving Pennsylvania's state government to divided control. Prior to that, Republicans controlled a trifecta resulting from the 2010 elections.

Pennsylvania Party Control: 1992-2021
One year of a Democratic trifecta • Twelve years of Republican trifectas
Scroll left and right on the table below to view more years.

Year	92	93	94	95	96	97	98	99	00	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21
Governor	D	D	D	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	R	R	R	R	D	D	D	D	D	D	D
Senate	R	D	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R
House	D	D	D	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	D	D	D	D	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R

Wave election analysis[edit]

See also: Wave elections (1918-2016)

The term wave election is frequently used to describe an election cycle in which one party makes significant electoral gains. How many seats would Republicans have had to lose for the 2018 midterm election to be considered a wave election?

Ballotpedia examined the results of the 50 election cycles that occurred between 1918 and 2016—spanning from President Woodrow Wilson's (D) second midterm in 1918 to Donald Trump's (R) first presidential election in 2016. We define wave elections as the 20 percent of elections in that period resulting in the greatest seat swings against the president's party.

Applying this definition to state legislative elections, we found that Republicans needed to lose 494 seats for 2018 to qualify as a wave election.

The chart below shows the number of seats the president's party lost in the 10 state legislative waves from 1918 to 2016. Click here to read the full report.

State legislative wave elections
Year	President	Party	Election type	State legislative seats change	Elections analyzed^[13]
1932	Hoover	R	Presidential	-1,022	7,365
1922	Harding	R	First midterm	-907	6,907
1966	Johnson	D	First midterm^[14]	-782	7,561
1938	Roosevelt	D	Second midterm	-769	7,179
1958	Eisenhower	R	Second midterm	-702	7,627
2010	Obama	D	First midterm	-702	7,306
1974	Ford	R	Second midterm^[15]	-695	7,481
1920	Wilson	D	Presidential	-654	6,835
1930	Hoover	R	Presidential	-640	7,361
1954	Eisenhower	R	First midterm	-494	7,513

Competitiveness[edit]

Every year, Ballotpedia uses official candidate lists from each state to examine the competitiveness of every state legislative race in the country. Nationally, there has been a steady decline in electoral competitiveness since 2010. Most notable is that the number of districts with general election competition has dropped by more than 10 percent.

Results from 2016[edit]

Below is Ballotpedia's 2016 competitiveness analysis. Click here to read the full study »

Historical context[edit]

See also: Competitiveness in State Legislative Elections: 1972-2014

Uncontested elections: In 2014, 32.8 percent of Americans lived in states with an uncontested state senate election. Similarly, 40.4 percent of Americans lived in states with uncontested house elections. Primary elections were uncontested even more frequently, with 61 percent of people living in states with no contested primaries. Uncontested elections often occur in locations that are so politically one-sided that the result of an election would be a foregone conclusion regardless of whether it was contested or not.

Open seats: In most cases, an incumbent will run for re-election, which decreases the number of open seats available. In 2014, 83 percent of the 6,057 seats up for election saw the incumbent running for re-election. The states that impose term limits on their legislatures typically see a higher percentage of open seats in a given year because a portion of incumbents in each election are forced to leave office. Overall, the number of open seats decreased from 2012 to 2014, dropping from 21.2 percent in 2012 to 17.0 percent in 2014.

Incumbent win rates: Ballotpedia's competitiveness analysis of elections between 1972 and 2014 documented the high propensity for incumbents to win re-election in state legislative elections. In fact, since 1972, the win rate for incumbents had not dropped below 90 percent—with the exception of 1974, when 88 percent of incumbents were re-elected to their seats. Perhaps most importantly, the win rate for incumbents generally increased over time. In 2014, 96.5 percent of incumbents were able to retain their seats. Common convention holds that incumbents are able to leverage their office to maintain their seat. However, the high incumbent win rate may actually be a result of incumbents being more likely to hold seats in districts that are considered safe for their party.

Marginal primaries: Often, competitiveness is measured by examining the rate of elections that have been won by amounts that are considered marginal (5 percent or less). During the 2014 election, 90.1 percent of primary and general election races were won by margins higher than 5 percent. Interestingly, it is usually the case that only one of the two races—primary or general—will be competitive at a time. This means that if a district's general election is competitive, typically one or more of the district's primaries were won by more than 5 percent. The reverse is also true: If a district sees a competitive primary, it is unlikely that the general election for that district will be won by less than 5 percent. Primaries often see very low voter turnout in comparison to general elections. In 2014, there were only 27 million voters for state legislative primaries, but approximately 107 million voters for the state legislative general elections.

Pivot Counties[edit]

See also: Pivot Counties by state

Three of 67 Pennsylvania counties—4.5 percent—are pivot counties. These are counties that voted for Barack Obama (D) in 2008 and 2012 and for Donald Trump (R) in 2016. Altogether, the nation had 206 pivot counties, with most being concentrated in upper midwestern and northeastern states.

Counties won by Trump in 2016 and Obama in 2012 and 2008
County	Trump margin of victory in 2016	Obama margin of victory in 2012	Obama margin of victory in 2008
Erie County, Pennsylvania	1.56%	16.03%	19.88%
Luzerne County, Pennsylvania	19.31%	4.81%	8.41%
Northampton County, Pennsylvania	3.78%	4.71%	12.30%

In the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump (R) won Pennsylvania with 48.2 percent of the vote. Hillary Clinton (D) received 47.5 percent. In presidential elections between 1900 and 2016, Pennsylvania cast votes for the winning presidential candidate 76.7 percent of the time. In that same time frame, Pennsylvania supported Republican candidates for president more often than Democratic candidates, 53.3 to 43.3 percent. The state, however, favored Democrats in every presidential election between 2000 and 2012, but voted Republican in 2016.

Presidential results by legislative district[edit]

The following table details results of the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections by state House districts in Pennsylvania. Click [show] to expand the table. The "Obama," "Romney," "Clinton," and "Trump" columns describe the percent of the vote each presidential candidate received in the district. The "2012 Margin" and "2016 Margin" columns describe the margin of victory between the two presidential candidates in those years. The "Party Control" column notes which party held that seat heading into the 2018 general election. Data on the results of the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections broken down by state legislative districts was compiled by Daily Kos.^[16]^[17]

In 2012, Barack Obama (D) won 89 out of 203 state House districts in Pennsylvania with an average margin of victory of 37.4 points. In 2016, Hillary Clinton (D) won 84 out of 203 state House districts in Pennsylvania with an average margin of victory of 37.3 points. Clinton won 19 districts controlled by Republicans heading into the 2018 elections.

In 2012, Mitt Romney (R) won 114 out of 203 state House districts in Pennsylvania with an average margin of victory of 20 points. In 2016, Donald Trump (R) won 119 out of 203 state House districts in Pennsylvania with an average margin of victory of 28.2 points. Trump won 17 districts controlled by Democrats heading into the 2018 elections.

2016 Presidential Results by state House District '
District	Obama	Romney	2012 Margin	Clinton	Trump	2016 Margin	Party Control
1	74.23%	24.51%	D+49.7	62.96%	33.11%	D+29.8	D
2	64.16%	34.60%	D+29.6	54.43%	40.91%	D+13.5	D
3	52.42%	46.30%	D+6.1	45.74%	49.76%	R+4	D
4	47.98%	50.56%	R+2.6	34.90%	60.52%	R+25.6	R
5	39.20%	59.23%	R+20	30.95%	64.64%	R+33.7	R
6	41.46%	56.84%	R+15.4	33.98%	61.68%	R+27.7	R
7	58.14%	40.56%	D+17.6	44.84%	51.68%	R+6.8	D
8	31.90%	66.60%	R+34.7	24.28%	71.25%	R+47	R
9	47.63%	51.12%	R+3.5	36.69%	60.36%	R+23.7	D
10	45.01%	53.45%	R+8.4	35.93%	59.86%	R+23.9	R
11	34.69%	63.96%	R+29.3	28.50%	66.88%	R+38.4	R
12	29.48%	69.55%	R+40.1	31.88%	64.41%	R+32.5	R
13	43.63%	55.27%	R+11.6	42.73%	53.04%	R+10.3	R
14	38.01%	60.67%	R+22.7	32.28%	64.15%	R+31.9	R
15	37.23%	61.54%	R+24.3	31.00%	65.48%	R+34.5	R
16	53.92%	44.73%	D+9.2	46.00%	50.52%	R+4.5	D
17	42.32%	56.30%	R+14	29.47%	66.56%	R+37.1	R
18	57.88%	40.91%	D+17	52.85%	44.12%	D+8.7	R
19	86.11%	12.84%	D+73.3	83.38%	13.65%	D+69.7	D
20	61.01%	37.46%	D+23.6	60.52%	34.84%	D+25.7	D
21	57.83%	40.46%	D+17.4	59.05%	36.62%	D+22.4	D
22	76.43%	22.64%	D+53.8	72.60%	24.54%	D+48.1	D
23	73.62%	24.04%	D+49.6	80.06%	16.36%	D+63.7	D
24	90.72%	8.31%	D+82.4	90.51%	7.00%	D+83.5	D
25	51.85%	47.12%	D+4.7	50.07%	46.87%	D+3.2	D
26	45.47%	53.34%	R+7.9	43.50%	52.49%	R+9	R
27	63.70%	34.87%	D+28.8	60.79%	35.34%	D+25.5	D
28	36.63%	62.52%	R+25.9	43.46%	52.61%	R+9.2	R
29	45.87%	53.06%	R+7.2	46.10%	50.52%	R+4.4	R
30	40.91%	58.24%	R+17.3	44.48%	51.61%	R+7.1	R
31	50.76%	48.04%	D+2.7	55.20%	41.17%	D+14	D
32	60.05%	38.99%	D+21.1	59.16%	37.83%	D+21.3	D
33	49.03%	49.75%	R+0.7	45.55%	50.80%	R+5.3	D
34	68.62%	30.16%	D+38.5	68.78%	28.17%	D+40.6	D
35	63.94%	35.20%	D+28.7	57.89%	39.41%	D+18.5	D
36	60.88%	37.46%	D+23.4	56.42%	39.30%	D+17.1	D
37	28.95%	69.66%	R+40.7	26.19%	69.00%	R+42.8	R
38	50.42%	48.41%	D+2	46.28%	50.58%	R+4.3	D
39	40.59%	58.52%	R+17.9	36.49%	60.37%	R+23.9	R
40	36.83%	62.34%	R+25.5	41.12%	55.57%	R+14.4	R
41	42.46%	56.09%	R+13.6	41.74%	53.32%	R+11.6	R
42	55.31%	43.47%	D+11.8	60.20%	35.63%	D+24.6	D
43	36.53%	62.17%	R+25.6	36.27%	58.57%	R+22.3	R
44	41.51%	57.51%	R+16	43.16%	53.29%	R+10.1	R
45	51.33%	47.58%	D+3.7	49.81%	46.66%	D+3.2	D
46	44.33%	54.63%	R+10.3	39.68%	56.72%	R+17	R
47	40.06%	58.68%	R+18.6	34.74%	60.75%	R+26	R
48	45.49%	53.23%	R+7.7	40.70%	55.39%	R+14.7	D
49	49.95%	48.61%	D+1.3	37.74%	58.75%	R+21	R
50	46.33%	52.50%	R+6.2	33.66%	63.80%	R+30.1	D
51	41.10%	57.87%	R+16.8	30.84%	66.70%	R+35.9	R
52	40.85%	57.93%	R+17.1	30.15%	67.36%	R+37.2	R
53	48.81%	49.75%	R+0.9	48.69%	46.74%	D+2	R
54	36.11%	62.89%	R+26.8	34.91%	61.80%	R+26.9	R
55	39.89%	58.83%	R+18.9	31.43%	65.24%	R+33.8	D
56	34.08%	64.90%	R+30.8	31.32%	65.45%	R+34.1	R
57	36.37%	62.35%	R+26	33.60%	62.73%	R+29.1	R
58	43.41%	55.41%	R+12	34.02%	63.22%	R+29.2	R
59	31.93%	66.81%	R+34.9	26.42%	70.50%	R+44.1	R
60	30.82%	67.77%	R+37	24.08%	72.85%	R+48.8	R
61	51.45%	47.61%	D+3.8	56.68%	39.73%	D+16.9	R
62	43.10%	55.21%	R+12.1	34.47%	61.69%	R+27.2	R
63	29.59%	68.69%	R+39.1	22.17%	74.25%	R+52.1	R
64	34.96%	63.20%	R+28.2	26.01%	69.72%	R+43.7	R
65	39.55%	58.80%	R+19.3	27.22%	68.57%	R+41.4	R
66	27.05%	71.53%	R+44.5	18.49%	78.42%	R+59.9	R
67	32.35%	65.98%	R+33.6	22.32%	74.12%	R+51.8	R
68	31.27%	66.99%	R+35.7	20.98%	74.62%	R+53.6	R
69	25.99%	72.68%	R+46.7	18.90%	78.57%	R+59.7	R
70	63.08%	35.97%	D+27.1	63.15%	33.72%	D+29.4	D
71	42.84%	55.39%	R+12.5	34.58%	62.24%	R+27.7	D
72	37.01%	61.10%	R+24.1	26.49%	70.36%	R+43.9	D
73	38.10%	60.27%	R+22.2	24.79%	72.19%	R+47.4	R
74	62.76%	36.10%	D+26.7	60.37%	35.55%	D+24.8	R
75	36.38%	62.06%	R+25.7	24.79%	71.59%	R+46.8	R
76	39.88%	58.53%	R+18.6	29.08%	67.03%	R+37.9	D
77	59.83%	37.36%	D+22.5	60.78%	33.56%	D+27.2	D
78	22.54%	76.40%	R+53.9	16.03%	81.71%	R+65.7	R
79	39.22%	59.27%	R+20	30.70%	65.55%	R+34.9	R
80	26.47%	72.45%	R+46	20.96%	76.10%	R+55.1	R
81	35.33%	63.30%	R+28	30.25%	66.04%	R+35.8	R
82	26.74%	72.05%	R+45.3	19.62%	77.01%	R+57.4	R
83	38.82%	59.70%	R+20.9	32.82%	62.88%	R+30.1	R
84	26.66%	72.04%	R+45.4	18.99%	77.66%	R+58.7	R
85	35.45%	62.97%	R+27.5	31.55%	64.64%	R+33.1	R
86	33.17%	65.18%	R+32	25.57%	69.93%	R+44.4	R
87	41.20%	57.38%	R+16.2	41.82%	53.91%	R+12.1	R
88	41.23%	57.13%	R+15.9	41.39%	53.53%	R+12.1	R
89	34.19%	64.52%	R+30.3	29.92%	66.31%	R+36.4	R
90	28.09%	70.61%	R+42.5	22.85%	73.48%	R+50.6	R
91	37.65%	60.93%	R+23.3	32.20%	63.86%	R+31.7	R
92	31.91%	66.77%	R+34.9	28.03%	67.52%	R+39.5	R
93	34.53%	63.91%	R+29.4	31.05%	64.67%	R+33.6	R
94	35.78%	62.70%	R+26.9	28.86%	66.88%	R+38	R
95	65.14%	33.21%	D+31.9	61.43%	33.92%	D+27.5	D
96	74.86%	23.26%	D+51.6	73.28%	21.55%	D+51.7	D
97	40.15%	58.50%	R+18.4	42.36%	52.82%	R+10.5	R
98	37.73%	60.63%	R+22.9	32.52%	61.78%	R+29.3	R
99	28.97%	69.60%	R+40.6	25.97%	68.75%	R+42.8	R
100	34.03%	64.51%	R+30.5	28.29%	67.35%	R+39.1	R
101	39.74%	58.92%	R+19.2	37.40%	58.74%	R+21.3	R
102	31.56%	66.91%	R+35.3	24.88%	71.23%	R+46.3	R
103	81.25%	17.74%	D+63.5	78.28%	18.44%	D+59.8	D
104	46.98%	51.71%	R+4.7	42.83%	53.30%	R+10.5	R
105	45.32%	53.34%	R+8	44.00%	51.91%	R+7.9	R
106	43.98%	54.60%	R+10.6	43.80%	51.46%	R+7.7	R
107	42.37%	55.71%	R+13.3	28.98%	66.96%	R+38	R
108	34.84%	63.47%	R+28.6	26.52%	69.44%	R+42.9	R
109	42.93%	55.31%	R+12.4	32.18%	63.26%	R+31.1	R
110	38.40%	59.80%	R+21.4	25.85%	69.59%	R+43.7	R
111	39.36%	59.14%	R+19.8	28.62%	67.57%	R+39	R
112	69.10%	29.74%	D+39.4	55.53%	41.46%	D+14.1	D
113	67.49%	31.46%	D+36	56.83%	40.31%	D+16.5	D
114	58.64%	40.26%	D+18.4	44.66%	52.39%	R+7.7	D
115	64.27%	34.56%	D+29.7	58.15%	38.28%	D+19.9	D
116	40.79%	57.87%	R+17.1	31.33%	66.07%	R+34.7	R
117	41.83%	56.50%	R+14.7	30.66%	66.00%	R+35.3	R
118	55.83%	43.08%	D+12.8	40.74%	56.46%	R+15.7	D
119	51.23%	47.10%	D+4.1	35.40%	61.77%	R+26.4	D
120	53.79%	44.76%	D+9	42.55%	54.62%	R+12.1	R
121	61.17%	37.18%	D+24	47.71%	48.91%	R+1.2	D
122	44.86%	53.22%	R+8.4	30.76%	65.46%	R+34.7	R
123	51.65%	46.75%	D+4.9	31.73%	65.03%	R+33.3	D
124	37.56%	60.67%	R+23.1	25.51%	70.74%	R+45.2	R
125	36.51%	62.03%	R+25.5	23.43%	72.95%	R+49.5	R
126	63.45%	34.97%	D+28.5	57.62%	38.36%	D+19.3	D
127	80.68%	18.33%	D+62.4	77.08%	19.95%	D+57.1	D
128	41.43%	57.06%	R+15.6	38.02%	57.47%	R+19.5	R
129	41.67%	56.89%	R+15.2	37.61%	57.86%	R+20.3	R
130	42.78%	55.70%	R+12.9	35.25%	60.10%	R+24.9	R
131	44.49%	54.03%	R+9.5	41.91%	53.76%	R+11.9	R
132	65.53%	33.25%	D+32.3	64.10%	32.82%	D+31.3	D
133	59.02%	39.41%	D+19.6	52.89%	42.75%	D+10.1	D
134	43.39%	55.42%	R+12	41.92%	54.04%	R+12.1	R
135	64.54%	34.06%	D+30.5	61.91%	34.09%	D+27.8	D
136	59.36%	39.16%	D+20.2	53.35%	42.48%	D+10.9	D
137	46.66%	52.14%	R+5.5	40.33%	56.02%	R+15.7	R
138	43.63%	55.31%	R+11.7	39.52%	56.92%	R+17.4	R
139	39.33%	59.34%	R+20	30.73%	66.15%	R+35.4	R
140	63.59%	35.05%	D+28.5	54.38%	41.60%	D+12.8	D
141	62.97%	35.53%	D+27.4	52.82%	43.31%	D+9.5	D
142	49.07%	49.78%	R+0.7	46.32%	50.25%	R+3.9	R
143	45.51%	53.19%	R+7.7	47.61%	48.14%	R+0.5	R
144	44.70%	54.17%	R+9.5	45.34%	50.70%	R+5.4	R
145	44.16%	54.36%	R+10.2	39.59%	55.70%	R+16.1	R
146	50.85%	47.96%	D+2.9	48.37%	47.29%	D+1.1	R
147	43.65%	54.97%	R+11.3	41.16%	54.54%	R+13.4	R
148	60.73%	38.33%	D+22.4	67.12%	29.75%	D+37.4	D
149	60.45%	38.56%	D+21.9	66.82%	29.98%	D+36.8	D
150	49.69%	49.13%	D+0.6	51.73%	44.27%	D+7.5	R
151	50.81%	48.28%	D+2.5	55.25%	41.23%	D+14	R
152	52.27%	46.64%	D+5.6	54.58%	41.63%	D+12.9	R
153	63.65%	35.32%	D+28.3	66.36%	30.20%	D+36.2	D
154	74.52%	24.59%	D+49.9	77.91%	19.15%	D+58.8	D
155	47.56%	51.25%	R+3.7	51.80%	43.97%	D+7.8	R
156	49.44%	49.46%	R+0	54.28%	41.62%	D+12.7	D
157	52.13%	46.72%	D+5.4	58.80%	37.01%	D+21.8	R
158	48.38%	50.45%	R+2.1	52.99%	42.96%	D+10	R
159	83.68%	15.63%	D+68	77.53%	20.25%	D+57.3	D
160	46.71%	52.30%	R+5.6	49.20%	47.16%	D+2	R
161	55.77%	43.14%	D+12.6	53.41%	43.19%	D+10.2	D
162	57.37%	41.38%	D+16	49.64%	46.80%	D+2.8	R
163	55.33%	43.45%	D+11.9	54.70%	41.57%	D+13.1	R
164	82.20%	16.96%	D+65.2	81.93%	15.75%	D+66.2	D
165	48.98%	50.02%	R+1	51.81%	44.91%	D+6.9	R
166	61.53%	37.33%	D+24.2	67.49%	28.93%	D+38.6	D
167	48.42%	50.53%	R+2.1	55.67%	40.48%	D+15.2	R
168	47.78%	51.08%	R+3.3	51.51%	44.79%	D+6.7	R
169	34.04%	64.45%	R+30.4	27.83%	67.92%	R+40.1	R
170	56.95%	42.17%	D+14.8	49.20%	48.35%	D+0.9	R
171	40.68%	57.64%	R+17	39.86%	55.53%	R+15.7	R
172	59.28%	39.77%	D+19.5	55.26%	41.93%	D+13.3	D
173	64.49%	34.35%	D+30.1	56.90%	40.57%	D+16.3	D
174	61.67%	37.38%	D+24.3	57.06%	40.39%	D+16.7	D
175	79.87%	18.59%	D+61.3	81.59%	15.10%	D+66.5	D
176	50.90%	47.71%	D+3.2	41.51%	54.94%	R+13.4	R
177	65.38%	33.22%	D+32.2	56.98%	39.92%	D+17.1	R
178	42.85%	56.21%	R+13.4	46.82%	50.00%	R+3.2	R
179	92.03%	7.63%	D+84.4	89.49%	8.95%	D+80.5	D
180	91.88%	7.78%	D+84.1	90.18%	8.68%	D+81.5	D
181	94.57%	4.54%	D+90	92.34%	5.28%	D+87.1	D
182	80.77%	17.83%	D+62.9	85.13%	12.25%	D+72.9	D
183	46.31%	52.33%	R+6	37.34%	58.86%	R+21.5	R
184	74.15%	24.62%	D+49.5	68.00%	29.12%	D+38.9	D
185	81.50%	18.03%	D+63.5	77.31%	21.01%	D+56.3	D
186	92.45%	6.89%	D+85.6	90.67%	7.27%	D+83.4	D
187	41.65%	56.98%	R+15.3	39.49%	56.43%	R+16.9	R
188	92.78%	5.93%	D+86.9	93.67%	3.86%	D+89.8	D
189	52.75%	45.91%	D+6.8	45.71%	51.06%	R+5.4	R
190	97.49%	2.19%	D+95.3	95.73%	2.77%	D+93	D
191	97.46%	2.39%	D+95.1	95.90%	3.11%	D+92.8	D
192	96.72%	3.08%	D+93.6	95.06%	3.68%	D+91.4	D
193	32.78%	65.92%	R+33.1	27.49%	68.67%	R+41.2	R
194	70.09%	28.46%	D+41.6	72.03%	24.29%	D+47.7	D
195	92.86%	6.25%	D+86.6	92.54%	5.33%	D+87.2	D
196	35.76%	62.90%	R+27.1	28.34%	67.63%	R+39.3	R
197	97.04%	2.75%	D+94.3	95.62%	3.52%	D+92.1	D
198	97.73%	1.99%	D+95.7	96.12%	2.54%	D+93.6	D
199	39.71%	58.82%	R+19.1	37.16%	58.63%	R+21.5	R
200	94.69%	4.79%	D+89.9	94.29%	3.97%	D+90.3	D
201	98.24%	1.52%	D+96.7	96.47%	2.17%	D+94.3	D
202	80.92%	18.39%	D+62.5	78.97%	19.01%	D+60	D
203	96.00%	3.80%	D+92.2	94.44%	4.23%	D+90.2	D
Total	52.08%	46.68%	D+5.4	47.85%	48.58%	R+0.7	-
Source: Daily Kos

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↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Excludes unopposed elections
↑ Ballotpedia defines an incumbent as retiring if the incumbent did not file for office or filed for office but withdrew, was disqualified, or otherwise left a race in a manner other than losing the primary, primary runoff, or convention. If an incumbent runs as a write-in candidate, Ballotpedia does not consider them to be retiring. If an incumbent runs in the same chamber for a different seat, Ballotpedia does not consider them to be retiring.
↑ Pennsylvania Election Code, "Article 9, Section 907," accessed January 15, 2014
↑ Pennsylvania Election Code, "Article 9, Section 912.1," accessed January 15, 2014
↑ Pennsylvania Election Code, "Article 9, Section 910," accessed January 15, 2014
↑ Pennsylvania Election Code, "Article 9, Section 913," accessed January 15, 2014
↑ Pennsylvania Department of State, "Running for Office," accessed January 23, 2014
↑ Ballot Access News, "Pennsylvania Department of State Now Has Electronic Petition Forms on Its Web Page," January 16, 2014
↑ Note: As the result of a court order (Constitution Party v. Cortés (No. 12-2726; E.D. Pa. 2015), political body candidates seeking statewide office may submit signatures totaling 2.5 times the requirement for political party candidates seeking placement on the primary election ballot.
↑ Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, "General Information About Running for Public Office," accessed April 13, 2021
↑ Pennsylvania Election Code, "Article 9, Section 951(b)," accessed January 15, 2014
↑ Pennsylvania Election Code, "Section 1112-A," accessed September 1, 2015
↑ The number of state legislative seats available for analysis varied, with as many as 7,795 and as few as 6,835.
↑ Lyndon Johnson's (D) first term began in November 1963 after the death of President John F. Kennedy (D), who was first elected in 1960. Before Johnson had his first midterm in 1966, he was re-elected president in 1964.
↑ Gerald Ford's (R) first term began in August 1974 following the resignation of President Richard Nixon (R), who was first elected in 1968 and was re-elected in 1972. Because Ford only served for two full months before facing the electorate, this election is classified as Nixon's second midterm.
↑ Daily Kos, "Daily Kos Elections' statewide election results by congressional and legislative districts," July 9, 2013
↑ Daily Kos, "Daily Kos Elections' 2016 presidential results for congressional and legislative districts," February 6, 2017

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Current members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives

Leadership

Speaker of the House:Bryan Cutler

Majority Leader:Kerry Benninghoff

Representatives

District 1

Patrick Harkins (D)

District 2

Robert Merski (D)

District 3

Ryan Bizzarro (D)

District 4

Curtis Sonney (R)

District 5

Barry Jozwiak (R)

District 6

Bradley Roae (R)

District 7

Mark Longietti (D)

District 8

Tim Bonner (R)

District 9

Chris Sainato (D)

District 10

Aaron Bernstine (R)

District 11

Marci Mustello (R)

District 12

Daryl Metcalfe (R)

District 13

John Lawrence (R)

District 14

Jim Marshall (R)

District 15

Joshua Kail (R)

District 16

Robert Matzie (D)

District 17

Parke Wentling (R)

District 18

K.C. Tomlinson (R)

District 19

Jake Wheatley (D)

District 20

Emily Kinkead (D)

District 21

Sara Innamorato (D)

District 22

Peter Schweyer (D)

District 23

Dan Frankel (D)

District 24

Edward Gainey (D)

District 25

Brandon Markosek (D)

District 26

Timothy Hennessey (R)

District 27

Daniel Deasy (D)

District 28

Rob Mercuri (R)

District 29

Meghan Schroeder (R)

District 30

Lori Mizgorski (R)

District 31

Perry Warren (D)

District 32

Anthony DeLuca (D)

District 33

Carrie DelRosso (R)

District 34

Summer Lee (D)

District 35

Austin Davis (D)

District 36

Jessica Benham (D)

District 37

Mindy Fee (R)

District 38

Nick Pisciottano (D)

District 39

Michael Puskaric (R)

District 40

Natalie Mihalek (R)

District 41

Brett Miller (R)

District 42

Dan Miller (D)

District 43

Keith Greiner (R)

District 44

Valerie Gaydos (R)

District 45

Anita Kulik (D)

District 46

Jason Ortitay (R)

District 47

Keith Gillespie (R)

District 48

Timothy O'Neal (R)

District 49

Bud Cook (R)

District 50

Pam Snyder (D)

District 51

Matthew Dowling (R)

District 52

Ryan Warner (R)

District 53

Steven Malagari (D)

District 54

Robert Brooks (R)

District 55

Jason Silvis (R)

District 56

George Dunbar (R)

District 57

Eric Nelson (R)

District 58

Eric Davanzo (R)

District 59

Leslie Rossi (R)

District 60

Abby Major (R)

District 61

Liz Hanbidge (D)

District 62

James Struzzi (R)

District 63

Donna Oberlander (R)

District 64

R. James (R)

District 65

Kathy Rapp (R)

District 66

Brian Smith (R)

District 67

Martin Causer (R)

District 68

Clint Owlett (R)

District 69

Carl Metzgar (R)

District 70

Matthew Bradford (D)

District 71

James Rigby (R)

District 72

Frank Burns (D)

District 73

Thomas Sankey (R)

District 74

Dan Williams (D)

District 75

Mike Armanini (R)

District 76

Stephanie Borowicz (R)

District 77

Scott Conklin (D)

District 78

Jesse Topper (R)

District 79

Louis Schmitt (R)

District 80

James Gregory (R)

District 81

Richard Irvin (R)

District 82

Johnathan Hershey (R)

District 83

Jeff Wheeland (R)

District 84

Joe Hamm (R)

District 85

David Rowe (R)

District 86

Perry Stambaugh (R)

District 87

Greg Rothman (R)

District 88

Sheryl Delozier (R)

District 89

Rob Kauffman (R)

District 90

Paul Schemel (R)

District 91

Dan Moul (R)

District 92

Dawn Keefer (R)

District 93

Mike Jones (R)

District 94

Stanley Saylor (R)

District 95

Carol Hill-Evans (D)

District 96

P. Sturla (D)

District 97

Steven Mentzer (R)

District 98

David Hickernell (R)

District 99

David Zimmerman (R)

District 100

Bryan Cutler (R)

District 101

Francis Ryan (R)

District 102

Russell Diamond (R)

District 103

Patty Kim (D)

District 104

Susan Helm (R)

District 105

Andrew Lewis (R)

District 106

Thomas Mehaffie (R)

District 107

Kurt Masser (R)

District 108

Lynda Culver (R)

District 109

David Millard (R)

District 110

Tina Pickett (R)

District 111

Jonathan Fritz (R)

District 112

Kyle Mullins (D)

District 113

Vacant

District 114

Bridget Malloy Kosierowski (D)

District 115

Maureen Madden (D)

District 116

Tarah Toohil (R)

District 117

Karen Boback (R)

District 118

Mike Carroll (D)

District 119

Gerald Mullery (D)

District 120

Aaron Kaufer (R)

District 121

Eddie Pashinski (D)

District 122

Doyle Heffley (R)

District 123

Tim Twardzik (R)

District 124

Jerry Knowles (R)

District 125

Joe Kerwin (R)

District 126

Mark Rozzi (D)

District 127

Manuel Guzman (D)

District 128

Mark Gillen (R)

District 129

Jim Cox (R)

District 130

David Maloney (R)

District 131

Milou Mackenzie (R)

District 132

Michael Schlossberg (D)

District 133

Jeanne McNeill (D)

District 134

Ryan Mackenzie (R)

District 135

Steve Samuelson (D)

District 136

Robert Freeman (D)

District 137

Joe Emrick (R)

District 138

Ann Flood (R)

District 139

Michael Peifer (R)

District 140

John Galloway (D)

District 141

Tina Davis (D)

District 142

Frank Farry (R)

District 143

Shelby Labs (R)

District 144

F. Todd Polinchock (R)

District 145

Craig Staats (R)

District 146

Joseph Ciresi (D)

District 147

Tracy Pennycuick (R)

District 148

Mary Daley (D)

District 149

Tim Briggs (D)

District 150

Joseph Webster (D)

District 151

Todd Stephens (R)

District 152

Nancy Guenst (D)

District 153

Ben Sanchez (D)

District 154

Napoleon Nelson (D)

District 155

Danielle Friel Otten (D)

District 156

Dianne Herrin (D)

District 157

Melissa Shusterman (D)

District 158

Christina Sappey (D)

District 159

Brian Kirkland (D)

District 160

Craig Williams (R)

District 161

Leanne Krueger-Braneky (D)

District 162

David Delloso (D)

District 163

Michael Zabel (D)

District 164

Vacant

District 165

Jennifer O'Mara (D)

District 166

Gregory Vitali (D)

District 167

Kristine Howard (D)

District 168

Christopher Quinn (R)

District 169

Kate Klunk (R)

District 170

Martina White (R)

District 171

Kerry Benninghoff (R)

District 172

Kevin Boyle (D)

District 173

Michael Driscoll (D)

District 174

Ed Neilson (D)

District 175

Mary Isaacson (D)

District 176

Jack Rader (R)

District 177

Joseph Hohenstein (D)

District 178

Wendi Thomas (R)

District 179

Jason Dawkins (D)

District 180

Angel Cruz (D)

District 181

Malcolm Kenyatta (D)

District 182

Brian Sims (D)

District 183

Zachary Mako (R)

District 184

Elizabeth Fiedler (D)

District 185

Regina Young (D)

District 186

Jordan Harris (D)

District 187

Gary Day (R)

District 188

Rick Krajewski (D)

District 189

Rosemary Brown (R)

District 190

Amen Brown (D)

District 191

Joanna McClinton (D)

District 192

Morgan Cephas (D)

District 193

Torren Ecker (R)

District 194

Pamela DeLissio (D)

District 195

Donna Bullock (D)

District 196

Seth Grove (R)

District 197

Danilo Burgos (D)

District 198

Darisha Parker (D)

District 199

Barbara Gleim (R)

District 200

Christopher Rabb (D)

District 201

Stephen Kinsey (D)

District 202

Jared Solomon (D)

District 203

Isabella Fitzgerald (D)

Republican Party (113)

Democratic Party (88)

Vacancies (2)

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