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The Pennsylvania House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral Pennsylvania General Assembly, the legislature of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. There are 203 members, elected for two-year terms from single member districts. [1] [2] It is the largest full-time state legislature in the country.
The term of office for those elected in 2024 will begin when the House of Representatives convenes in January 2025. Pennsylvania State Representatives are elected for two-year terms, with all 203 seats up for election every two years. [2] The primary elections to choose the respective parties' nominees took place on April 23. [3]
The 2026 United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania will be held on November 3, 2026, to elect the 17 U.S. representatives from the State of Pennsylvania, one from each of the state's congressional districts.
May 21—HARRISBURG — The winner of a special election to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives was sworn into office Tuesday, bringing the lower chamber to its full complement of 203 members.
The Pennsylvania general elections are held on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November in even-numbered years. A vacant seat must be filled by special election, the date of which is set by the presiding officer of the respective house. Senators must be at least 25 years old, and Representatives at least 21 years old.
Matthew J. Contreras of Milford Township, Pike County, has announced his bid for election to be the next state representative for the 139th District, which includes parts of Pike and Wayne counties.
Pennsylvania Democrats defied expectations, and recent history, in 2022 by recapturing the state House of Representatives for the first time in more than a decade.
The following is a list of members of the United States House of Representatives from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. For chronological tables of members of both houses of the United States Congress from the state (through the present day), see United States congressional delegations from Pennsylvania. The list has been updated periodically ...