Anna Thomas
Anna Thomas (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to represent District 137. She lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Thomas completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Anna Thomas was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Thomas earned a bachelor's degree from the Wellesley College and a graduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania. Her career experience includes working as a consultant.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Pennsylvania House of Representatives elections, 2024
General election
General election for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 137
Incumbent Joe Emrick defeated Anna Thomas in the general election for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 137 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Joe Emrick (R) | 51.6 | 20,485 |
 | Anna Thomas (D)  | 48.3 | 19,169 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 49 | ||
| Total votes: 39,703 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 137
Anna Thomas advanced from the Democratic primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 137 on April 23, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Anna Thomas | 99.5 | 5,969 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.5 | 30 | ||
| Total votes: 5,999 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 137
Incumbent Joe Emrick advanced from the Republican primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 137 on April 23, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Joe Emrick | 99.5 | 4,755 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.5 | 23 | ||
| Total votes: 4,778 | |||
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Campaign finance
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Thomas in this election.
2022
See also: Pennsylvania House of Representatives elections, 2022
General election
General election for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 137
Incumbent Joe Emrick defeated Anna Thomas in the general election for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 137 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Joe Emrick (R) | 51.2 | 15,619 |
| Anna Thomas (D) | 48.8 | 14,916 | |
| Total votes: 30,535 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 137
Anna Thomas advanced from the Democratic primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 137 on May 17, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Anna Thomas | 100.0 | 6,578 |
| Total votes: 6,578 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Tara Zrinski (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 137
Incumbent Joe Emrick advanced from the Republican primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 137 on May 17, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Joe Emrick | 100.0 | 5,901 |
| Total votes: 5,901 | |||
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Campaign finance
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Anna Thomas completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Thomas' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- Every Pennsylvanian should have the right to make their own reproductive healthcare decisions. Your state legislator does not belong in your and your loved ones’ reproductive healthcare and family planning decisions. I will defend the right of Pennsylvanians to make their own family planning decisions without government interference. I will also stand up to politicians who want to impose restrictions on birth control or fertility treatments for couples trying to have a baby.
- I believe in fairness.
Senior citizens and middle class families carry too much of the tax burden in Pennsylvania. Wealthy individuals and highly profitable corporations should pay their fair share. I want to close the loopholes that have been put in the tax code by politicians doing favors for their industry friends. I’ll take on powerful special interests that get special treatment, and vote to ban lobbyists from giving gifts to state legislators.
I support a school fair funding bill so that public schools in the Bethlehem Area, Nazareth Area, and Easton Area school districts can provide quality services that are currently underfunded. - Our public servants need to work together toward a bright future. My top priorities as a legislator center on improving quality of life and quality of public services for all Pennsylvanians. I believe that the growth of infrastructure and green energy in the next couple of decades is going to be a huge opportunity to create good-paying jobs for people with a wide variety of different skills– and that the state government needs to play a proactive role in ensuring that those projects and jobs come to Pennsylvania! There are shared areas of concern across the state, and I want to align with representatives no matter where they are in Pennsylvania to address these basic quality of life issues.
2. Closing tax loopholes that exist at the state level that enable multi-state and multinational corporations to avoid paying taxes in Pennsylvania, by enacting policies like combined reporting.
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2022
Anna Thomas completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Thomas' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- Anna will fight wasteful government spending. Senior citizens and middle class families carry too much of the tax burden in Pennsylvania. Wealthy individuals and highly profitable corporations should pay their fair share. Anna wants to close the loopholes that have been put in the tax code by politicians doing favors for their industry friends. She’ll take on powerful special interests that get special treatment, and vote to ban lobbyists from giving gifts to state legislators.
- Politicians should stay out of our personal lives. Anna will defend the right of Pennsylvanians to make their own family planning decisions without government interference. She will stand up to those in Harrisburg who want to make radical changes to our abortion laws, and politicians who now want new restrictions on birth control and even fertility treatments for couples trying to have a baby.
- Anna Thomas will focus on the economy. A highly-skilled workforce is essential for a strong economy, so she’ll expand vocational training and keep tuition affordable at our public universities and community colleges. Anna supports investing in infrastructure to improve our quality of life and make Pennsylvania a great place to do business. By modernizing roads, bridges and rail across Pennsylvania, we can attract cutting-edge businesses that create good-paying jobs for families to achieve a secure place in the middle class. She will also ensure we get our fair share of state funding for public schools in the Bethlehem, Easton, and Nazareth Area School Districts, so that we attract the best talent to live, work, and raise their families in t
Note: Ballotpedia reserves the right to edit Candidate Connection survey responses. Any edits made by Ballotpedia will be clearly marked with [brackets] for the public. If the candidate disagrees with an edit, he or she may request the full removal of the survey response from Ballotpedia.org. Ballotpedia does not edit or correct typographical errors unless the candidate's campaign requests it.
See also
2024 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on March 26, 2024
