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Ismail Smith-Wade-El
2022 - Present
2026
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Ismail Smith-Wade-El (Democratic Party) (also known as Izzy) is a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, representing District 49. He assumed office on December 1, 2022. His current term ends on November 30, 2026.
Smith-Wade-El (Democratic Party) ran for re-election to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to represent District 49. He won in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Biography
Ismail Smith-Wade-El was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He earned a bachelor's degree from Carnegie Mellon University in 2014.[1]
Committee assignments
Note: This membership information was last updated in September 2023. Ballotpedia completes biannual updates of committee membership. If you would like to send us an update, email us at: editor@ballotpedia.org.
2023-2024
Smith-Wade-El was assigned to the following committees:
- Committee On Committees
- House Education Committee
- Urban Affairs & Housing Committee
- Human Services Committee
- House Local Government Committee
Elections
2024
See also: Pennsylvania House of Representatives elections, 2024
General election
General election for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 49
Incumbent Ismail Smith-Wade-El won election in the general election for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 49 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Ismail Smith-Wade-El (D) | 96.6 | 18,064 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 3.4 | 634 | ||
| Total votes: 18,698 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 49
Incumbent Ismail Smith-Wade-El advanced from the Democratic primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 49 on April 23, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Ismail Smith-Wade-El | 99.5 | 3,511 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.5 | 16 | ||
| Total votes: 3,527 | |||
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Campaign finance
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Smith-Wade-El in this election.
2022
See also: Pennsylvania House of Representatives elections, 2022
General election
General election for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 49
Ismail Smith-Wade-El defeated Anne Rivers in the general election for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 49 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Ismail Smith-Wade-El (D) | 66.7 | 11,045 |
| Anne Rivers (R) | 33.3 | 5,511 | ||
| Total votes: 16,556 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 49
Ismail Smith-Wade-El defeated Janet Diaz in the Democratic primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 49 on May 17, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Ismail Smith-Wade-El | 59.7 | 3,149 |
 | Janet Diaz | 40.3 | 2,123 | |
| Total votes: 5,272 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 49
Anne Rivers advanced from the Republican primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 49 on May 17, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Anne Rivers | 100.0 | 2,123 | |
| Total votes: 2,123 | |||
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Campaign finance
Endorsements
To view Smith-Wade-El's endorsements in the 2022 election, please click here.
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Ismail Smith-Wade-El did not complete Ballotpedia's 2024 Candidate Connection survey.
2022
Ismail Smith-Wade-El completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Smith-Wade-El's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- The people of the Commonwealth deserve safe, affordable homes for their families, healthy lives for themselves, and beautiful childhoods for their young ones - we know this. The fight is whether we can organize to deliver what our communities deserve.
- Our communities - our cities, townships, and boroughs - have had the power to govern themselves taken away from them by the state legislature. Whether it is keeping housing affordable, giving municipalities the power to decide on taxation, or making safer streets for our kids to talk on, we’re going to Harrisburg to get what belongs to you back.
- Voters are worried about their child’s education, about the cost and quality of healthcare, about their ability to provide for their families. We will fight for more funding - especially special education funding - for public schools. We will ensure safe staffing ratios in hospitals and that windfalls to nursing homes are invest in patient care When my mother, an educator, was diagnosed with a rare, aggressive form of breast cancer, it was the health insurance her union fought that gave us ten more years together as a family. We’re going to protect working people. Every family deserves what my family got, and we’re going to make sure that they get it.
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Campaign finance summary
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2024
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In 2024, the Pennsylvania State Legislature was in session from January 2 to November 14.
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2023
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In 2023, the Pennsylvania State Legislature was in session from January 3 to December 13.
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
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Candidate Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 49 |
Officeholder Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 49 |
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on October 10, 2022
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Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 49 2022-Present |
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