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2024 Pennsylvania House of Representatives special election, District 139 [15] [16] Party Candidate Votes % Republican: Jeffrey Olsommer: 7,156 : 59.33 : Democratic: Robin Skibber 4,715 39.09 Write-in: 191 1.58 Total votes 12,062 : 100.00
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.
Pennsylvania has voted majority Democrat in every presidential election since 1992 with the exception of Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 election. In the 2012 congressional elections, Democratic candidates won 50.5% of the total votes cast. [5] However, only five of the state's 18 federal Representatives (27.78%) were Democrats. [6]
In their second year controlling the Pennsylvania House of Representatives after more than a decade as the minority party, Democratic lawmakers had some success. That included tackling maternal ...
The 2022 Pennsylvania state elections took place on November 8, 2022. On that date, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania held elections for the following offices: Governor and Lieutenant Governor (on one ticket), U.S. Senate , U.S. House of Representatives , Pennsylvania State Senate , Pennsylvania House of Representatives , and various other ...
Sen. Bob Casey and 10 U.S. House representatives from Pennsylvania, including one Republican, expressed commitment to certifying the results of the presidential election, no matter whether former ...
In the 2020 presidential race, Joe Biden won Bucks County by just over 17,000 votes, or by about 4.4 percentage points, while in 2016, Hillary Clinton won it by fewer than 2,000 votes.
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.