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Jared Solomon (Pennsylvania)
Jared Solomon (Democratic Party) is a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, representing District 202. He assumed office on December 1, 2016. His current term ends on November 30, 2026.
Solomon (Democratic Party) ran for re-election to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to represent District 202. He won in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Solomon also ran for election for Attorney General of Pennsylvania. He lost in the Democratic primary on April 23, 2024.
Biography
Solomon earned his bachelor's degree in Swarthmore College and his J.D. from Villanova Law School. His professional experience includes working as an attorney and as an Army JAG Reserve Officer.[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
Solomon was assigned to the following committees:
2021-2022
Solomon was assigned to the following committees:
2019-2020
Solomon was assigned to the following committees:
- Aging & Older Adult Services Committee
- House Education Committee
- House State Government Committee
- Urban Affairs Committee, Subcommittee Chair on Cities, Counties - First Class
2017 legislative session
At the beginning of the 2017 legislative session, this legislator served on the following committees:
| Pennsylvania committee assignments, 2017 |
|---|
| • Aging & Older Adult Services |
| • Children & Youth |
| • Education |
| • State Government |
| • Tourism & Recreational Development |
Sponsored legislation
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Elections
2024
Attorney general
See also: Pennsylvania Attorney General election, 2024
General election
General election for Attorney General of Pennsylvania
The following candidates ran in the general election for Attorney General of Pennsylvania on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Dave Sunday (R) | 50.8 | 3,496,679 |
 | Eugene DePasquale (D) | 46.2 | 3,179,376 | |
 | Rob Cowburn (L) | 1.3 | 88,835 | |
 | Richard Weiss (G)  | 1.0 | 68,046 | |
 | Justin Magill (Constitution Party) | 0.5 | 31,282 | |
 | Eric Settle (Forward Party) | 0.3 | 18,151 | |
| Total votes: 6,882,369 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Attorney General of Pennsylvania
Eugene DePasquale defeated Jack Stollsteimer, Joe Khan, Keir Bradford-Grey, and Jared Solomon in the Democratic primary for Attorney General of Pennsylvania on April 23, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Eugene DePasquale | 35.2 | 371,911 |
 | Jack Stollsteimer | 20.1 | 212,413 | |
 | Joe Khan | 15.9 | 167,895 | |
 | Keir Bradford-Grey | 15.2 | 160,369 | |
 | Jared Solomon | 13.1 | 137,920 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.4 | 4,577 | ||
| Total votes: 1,055,085 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Attorney General of Pennsylvania
Dave Sunday defeated Craig Williams in the Republican primary for Attorney General of Pennsylvania on April 23, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Dave Sunday | 69.9 | 620,515 |
 | Craig Williams | 29.5 | 261,419 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.6 | 5,282 | ||
| Total votes: 887,216 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
State house
See also: Pennsylvania House of Representatives elections, 2024
General election
General election for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 202
Incumbent Jared Solomon won election in the general election for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 202 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jared Solomon (D) | 99.1 | 10,586 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.9 | 99 | ||
| Total votes: 10,685 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 202
Incumbent Jared Solomon advanced from the Democratic primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 202 on April 23, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jared Solomon | 99.0 | 2,020 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 1.0 | 20 | ||
| Total votes: 2,040 | |||
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Republican primary election
No Republican candidates ran in the primary.
Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Aaron Bashir (R)
Campaign finance
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Solomon in this election.
Pledges
Solomon signed the following pledges.
2022
See also: Pennsylvania House of Representatives elections, 2022
General election
General election for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 202
Incumbent Jared Solomon won election in the general election for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 202 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jared Solomon (D) | 100.0 | 7,490 |
| Total votes: 7,490 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 202
Incumbent Jared Solomon advanced from the Democratic primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 202 on May 17, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jared Solomon | 100.0 | 2,348 |
| Total votes: 2,348 | |||
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Campaign finance
2020
See also: Pennsylvania House of Representatives elections, 2020
General election
General election for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 202
Incumbent Jared Solomon won election in the general election for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 202 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jared Solomon (D) | 100.0 | 18,116 |
| Total votes: 18,116 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 202
Incumbent Jared Solomon advanced from the Democratic primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 202 on June 2, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jared Solomon | 100.0 | 6,458 |
| Total votes: 6,458 | |||
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Campaign finance
2018
General election
General election for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 202
Incumbent Jared Solomon won election in the general election for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 202 on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jared Solomon (D) | 100.0 | 14,153 |
| Total votes: 14,153 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 202
Incumbent Jared Solomon advanced from the Democratic primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 202 on May 15, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jared Solomon | 100.0 | 2,361 |
| Total votes: 2,361 | |||
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2016
Elections for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives took place in 2016. The primary election was held on April 26, 2016, and the general election was held on November 8, 2016. The candidate filing deadline was February 16, 2016.
Jared Solomon ran unopposed in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 202 general election.[2][3]
| Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 202, General Election, 2016 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | |
| Democratic |  Jared Solomon (unopposed) | |
| Source: Pennsylvania Department of State | ||
Jared Solomon defeated incumbent Mark Cohen in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 202 Democratic primary.[4][5]
| Pennsylvania House of Representatives, District 202 Democratic Primary, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Democratic | Jared Solomon |
56.93% | 5,111 | |
| Democratic | Mark Cohen Incumbent | 43.07% | 3,867 | |
| Total Votes | 8,978 | |||
2014
Elections for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives took place in 2014. A primary election took place on May 20, 2014. The general election was held on November 4, 2014. The signature filing deadline for candidates wishing to run in this election was March 11, 2014. Incumbent Mark Cohen defeated Jared Solomon in the Democratic primary. Cohen was unchallenged in the general election.[6][7][8]
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
|---|---|---|
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Mark Cohen Incumbent |
51.8% | 2,281 |
| Jared Solomon | 48.2% | 2,123 |
| Total Votes | 4,404 | |
Campaign themes
2024
Attorney general
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Campaign website
Solomon’s campaign website stated the following:
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JARED KNOWS THAT GOOD GOVERNMENT CAN DO GREAT THINGS BECAUSE HE'S MADE PROGRESS IN HIS OWN NEIGHBORHOOD. ABORTION RIGHTS In the State Legislature, Jared introduced legislation to preserve a woman’s right to choose by providing a framework to work with neighboring states to prevent investigations of reproductive health care services, disclosure of records, and negative licensing actions. Throughout his entire tenure in the State House, Jared has maintained a lifetime 100% voting scorecard from Planned Parenthood Pennsylvania Advocates based on votes on key legislation related to sexual and reproductive health and rights. As Attorney General, Jared will work to expand access to care — and ensure that it is women making their own healthcare decisions, not politicians. Jared will ensure that his office provides the public with the information they need to seek safe abortion services, including Mifepristone providers and services through telehealth. Jared will, where legally appropriate, prosecute individuals or groups who criminally trespass abortion facilities or barricade clinic entrances to block access to abortion services. VOTING RIGHTS Jared will prosecute anyone who tries to illegally interfere with Pennsylvania’s elections, be it through voter intimidation or other efforts to disenfranchise voters. Jared is not afraid to prosecute public officials for illegal election activities. Under Jared’s leadership, the Office of the Attorney General will work to ensure voters continue to have the ability to safely and reliably vote by mail, and Jared will provide legal guidance to voters on potential voting issues ahead of each election. As a member of the military himself, Jared will ensure that members of the military who are outside of Pennsylvania on election day can use the Federal Write-in Absentee Ballot to both apply for an absentee ballot and to cast their vote. GUN CRIME Jared believes that to address the immediate threat of gun violence, we don’t need fewer police — we need a different type of policing. As Attorney General, Jared would support investment in training and a return of policing in our cities to pre-pandemic engagement with communities so that officers have sectional integrity in all they do and get to know the schools, churches, and businesses within their sector. Each officer needs to build connections within the community they are policing, helping with investigative work and doing preventive policing instead of reactive policing. Similarly, we must rebrand what it means to be a member of the police force in Pennsylvania with a massive public-service campaign that calls for the best and brightest of this generation to uplift our communities from within our communities. This campaign must resonate with this new generation of young people and should include incentive sign-on pay to attract the best candidates. As Attorney General, Jared would work to bolster investment in gun crime preventative justice tools that have already shown promise, including gun-violence intervention initiatives- turning blighted properties into community parks, lighting, home repairs, and greening up gun-violence-plagued blocks; and investing in the gun-violence task-force model in which prosecutors and field agents supplement local law enforcement to combat firearm crimes. As the chief law enforcement officer in Pennsylvania, Jared would work with the legislature to finally bring commonsense gun reforms to Pennsylvania, including stronger red-flag laws, a ban on assault weapons, expanded background checks, and shutting the ghost gun loophole. Jared will take on the gun lobby, reckless gun retailers, and ghost gun manufacturers. CLEAN AIR AND WATER Jared believes that Pennsylvania’s existing environmental regulations do not do nearly enough to protect our state's air, water, and health, and he will work with the legislature to pass stronger environmental protections. In the meantime, Jared will pursue polluters with civil fines and restitution, plus criminal charges where appropriate, no matter how well-connected they may be. LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT Jared will prosecute bad apple-employers who cheat their workers, including those who fail to carry workman’s compensation insurance or intentionally misclassify workers as independent contractors. These bad apple employers hurt not only their workers but also make it harder for law-abiding employers to compete, which is why Jared will aggressively pursue them to benefit all Pennsylvanians. Jared would continue the Office of Attorney General’s first-ever Fair Labor Section created under former AG Josh Shapiro and ensure the office has a dedicated Chief Deputy Attorney General for Fair Labor who will lead the team fighting for working people. Jared will increase outreach activities with organized labor and law-abiding employers to better defend workers against wage theft, misclassification, and discrimination. CONSUMER PROTECTION As Attorney General, Jared will pursue enforcement actions to protect Pennsylvania consumers from predatory lenders and price gougers, and he will aggressively issue regular consumer alerts to inform the public as new scams or dangers arise. Health, safety, and privacy issues are of the utmost importance to Jared. If a business lies, cheats, or steals from Pennsylvanians, he is coming for them. HOUSING As Attorney General, Jared will take on predatory businesses that scam aspiring homeowners with predatory and misleading “rent-to-own” schemes. Jared will prosecute mortgage lenders who systematically discriminate against neighborhoods with a high percentage of racial or ethnic minorities. Under Jared’s leadership, the Attorney General’s office will increase public information programs to help tenants know their rights, and Jared will take action against landlords who charge illegal fees in violation of Pennsylvania law. PUBLIC CORRUPTION After the sweeping 116-count federal indictment that ensnared many of the political power brokers in Philadelphia, Jared was the only elected official to stand up and call for their resignation. Jared continues to be one of the only elected officials in Harrisburg publicly advocating for truly transparent, ethical, and good government. As Attorney General that work will continue that focus. If a public official is more concerned with lining their pocket instead of taking care of their community, Jared will prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law. For too long, Pennsylvanians have had to rely on the Department of Justice to prosecute public corruption in our state. As Attorney General, Jared will take the lead in holding accountable those who abuse the public trust. The true work of government is improving the lives of the people it represents. When public officials use their position to improve their own lives at the expense of the public, Jared will pursue them with the full force of his office. DRUG POLICY Jared currently represents a state house district in Northeast Philadelphia and has seen the impact of this epidemic on his constituents. Jared took action and worked to locate a substance abuse and mental health provider next to law enforcement so that people with drug and mental health issues would have their criminal charges dropped if they went through approved programs. Jared has studied various state responses across the country and, as Attorney General, Jared would seek to follow the proven successes of the Colorado Opioids Response Model with a design focus of a region-centric plan that gives communities flexibility in addressing the crisis. As part of that strategy, Jared will shift law enforcement resources to bolster interdiction and interception of these drugs as they enter our Commonwealth and prosecute fentanyl traffickers to the fullest extent of the law. At the same time, Jared believes we must show greater compassion to the victims of this epidemic and as Attorney General, he will prioritize making substance use disorder treatment and recovery services available to those suffering from addiction. Jared supports legalizing marijuana for adult medical and recreational use. Jared also supports Governor Shapiro’s call for legalization to include expungement for those in jail or who have served time for possessing small amounts of marijuana. FIGHTING BIGOTRY, ANTISEMITISM, AND HATRED OF ALL KINDS Jared will ensure that local and state law enforcement partners have the resources they need to criminally prosecute ethnic intimidation and institutional vandalism cases where the crime is motivated by hatred toward the race, color, religion, or national origin of a person or group. Given the significant nearly 400% spike in antisemitic incidents across the United States since the Hamas massacre of Israeli civilians on October 7th, one of the first additions to the Attorney General’s office that Jared would make would be to follow the example set by Virginia’s Attorney General and create a statewide task force to monitor and combat antisemitism in Pennsylvania. The task force would be comprised of attorneys from the Attorney General’s office, state and local law enforcement officials, K-12 and collegiate educators, and leaders in the Jewish community. Among other things, the task force would focus on awareness and response training for state, local, and campus law enforcement.[9] |
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| —Jared Solomon’s campaign website (2024)[10] | ||
State house
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Jared Solomon did not complete Ballotpedia's 2024 Candidate Connection survey.
2022
Jared Solomon did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.
2020
Jared Solomon did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.
2014
Solomon's campaign website highlighted the following issues:[11]
Seniors
Crime and Safety
Poverty
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2024
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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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2022
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In 2022, the Pennsylvania State Legislature was in session from January 4 to November 30.
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2021
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In 2021, the Pennsylvania State Legislature was in session from January 5 to December 31.
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2020
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In 2020, the Pennsylvania State Legislature was in session from January 7 to November 30.
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2018
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In 2018, the Pennsylvania General Assembly was in session from January 2 through November 30.
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2017
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In 2017, the Pennsylvania General Assembly was in session from January 3 through December 31.
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2016
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In 2016, the Pennsylvania General Assembly was in session from January 5 through November 30.
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ jaredsolomon.nationbuilder.com, "About Jared," accessed May 12, 2014
- ↑ Pennsylvania Voter Services, "Candidate listing," accessed August 31, 2016
- ↑ Pennsylvania Department of State, "November 8, 2016, official election results," accessed May 17, 2017
- ↑ Pennsylvania Secretary of State, "Election Information," accessed February 18, 2016
- ↑ Pennsylvania Department of State, "2016 Presidential Primary," accessed August 2, 2016
- ↑ Pennsylvania Department of State, "Official primary results for May 20, 2014," accessed July 9, 2014
- ↑ Pennsylvania Department of State, "2014 Official Candidate Listing," accessed March 21, 2014
- ↑ Pennsylvania Department of State, "2014 General Election," accessed December 5, 2014
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Jared Solomon, Democrat for Attorney General, “Issues,” accessed March 9, 2024
- ↑ jaredsolomon.nationbuilder.com, "Issues," accessed May 12, 2014
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| Preceded by Mark Cohen (D) |
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 202 2016-Present |
Succeeded by - |
