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United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania, 2024
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April 23, 2024 |
November 5, 2024 |
2024 U.S. House Elections |
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The U.S. House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania were on November 5, 2024. Voters elected 17 candidates to serve in the U.S. House from each of the state's 17 U.S. House districts. The primary was April 23, 2024. The filing deadline was February 13, 2024.
Partisan breakdown
| Members of the U.S. House from Pennsylvania -- Partisan Breakdown | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | As of November 2024 | After the 2024 Election | |
| Democratic Party | 9 | 7 | |
| Republican Party | 8 | 10 | |
| Total | 17 | 17 | |
Candidates
District 1
General election candidates
- Brian Fitzpatrick (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Ashley Ehasz (Democratic Party)
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Democratic primary candidates
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Republican primary candidates
- Brian Fitzpatrick (Incumbent) ✔
- Mark Houck
Did not make the ballot:
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District 2
General election candidates
- Brendan Boyle (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Aaron Bashir (Republican Party)
Democratic primary candidates
- Brendan Boyle (Incumbent) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
Republican primary candidates
District 3
General election candidates
- Dwight Evans (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
Democratic primary candidates
- Dwight Evans (Incumbent) ✔
- Tracey Gordon
Republican primary candidates
No candidates filed for the Republican Party primary.
District 4
General election candidates
- Madeleine Dean (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- David Winkler (Republican Party)
Did not make the ballot:
- Chuck Keller (Independent)
Democratic primary candidates
- Madeleine Dean (Incumbent) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
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District 5
General election candidates
- Mary Gay Scanlon (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Alfe Goodwin (Republican Party)
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- Mary Gay Scanlon (Incumbent) ✔
Republican primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
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District 6
General election candidates
- Chrissy Houlahan (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Neil Young (Republican Party)
Democratic primary candidates
- Chrissy Houlahan (Incumbent) ✔
Republican primary candidates
District 7
General election candidates
- Susan Wild (Incumbent) (Democratic Party)
- Ryan Mackenzie (Republican Party) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
- Lewis Shupe (Independent)
Democratic primary candidates
- Susan Wild (Incumbent) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
Republican primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
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District 8
General election candidates
- Matt Cartwright (Incumbent) (Democratic Party)
- Rob Bresnahan Jr. (Republican Party) ✔
Democratic primary candidates
- Matt Cartwright (Incumbent) ✔
Republican primary candidates
District 9
General election candidates
- Dan Meuser (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Amanda Waldman (Democratic Party)
Democratic primary candidates
Republican primary candidates
- Dan Meuser (Incumbent) ✔
District 10
General election candidates
- Scott Perry (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Janelle Stelson (Democratic Party)
Democratic primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
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- Scott Perry (Incumbent) ✔
District 11
General election candidates
- Lloyd Smucker (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Jim Atkinson (Democratic Party)
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Did not make the ballot:
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- Lloyd Smucker (Incumbent) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
District 12
General election candidates
- Summer Lee (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- James Hayes (Republican Party)
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- Summer Lee (Incumbent) ✔
- Bhavini Patel
Did not make the ballot:
Republican primary candidates
- James Hayes ✔
- Paul Bryant (Write-in)
Did not make the ballot:
- Laurie MacDonald (Write-in)
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District 13
General election candidates
- John Joyce (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Beth Farnham (Democratic Party)
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Did not make the ballot:
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- John Joyce (Incumbent) ✔
District 14
General election candidates
- Guy Reschenthaler (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Chris Dziados (Democratic Party)
Did not make the ballot:
- Adam Halfhill (Independence Party)
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Did not make the ballot:
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- Guy Reschenthaler (Incumbent) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
District 15
General election candidates
- Glenn Thompson (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Zach Womer (Democratic Party)
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- Glenn Thompson (Incumbent) ✔
District 16
General election candidates
- Mike Kelly (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Preston Nouri (Democratic Party)
Democratic primary candidates
Republican primary candidates
- Mike Kelly (Incumbent) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
District 17
General election candidates
- Chris Deluzio (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Rob Mercuri (Republican Party)
Did not make the ballot:
- Clayton Cuteri (American Congress Party)
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- Chris Deluzio (Incumbent) ✔
Republican primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
Voting information
- See also: Voting in Pennsylvania
General election race ratings
- See also: Race rating definitions and methods
Ballotpedia provides race ratings from four outlets: The Cook Political Report, Inside Elections, Sabato's Crystal Ball, and DDHQ/The Hill. Each race rating indicates if one party is perceived to have an advantage in the race and, if so, the degree of advantage:
- Safe and Solid ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge and the race is not competitive.
- Likely ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge, but an upset is possible.
- Lean ratings indicate that one party has a small edge, but the race is competitive.[1]
- Toss-up ratings indicate that neither party has an advantage.
Race ratings are informed by a number of factors, including polling, candidate quality, and election result history in the race's district or state.[2][3][4]
Click the following links to see the race ratings in each of the state's U.S. House districts:
- Pennsylvania's 1st Congressional District
- Pennsylvania's 2nd Congressional District
- Pennsylvania's 3rd Congressional District
- Pennsylvania's 4th Congressional District
- Pennsylvania's 5th Congressional District
- Pennsylvania's 6th Congressional District
- Pennsylvania's 7th Congressional District
- Pennsylvania's 8th Congressional District
- Pennsylvania's 9th Congressional District
- Pennsylvania's 10th Congressional District
- Pennsylvania's 11th Congressional District
- Pennsylvania's 12th Congressional District
- Pennsylvania's 13th Congressional District
- Pennsylvania's 14th Congressional District
- Pennsylvania's 15th Congressional District
- Pennsylvania's 16th Congressional District
- Pennsylvania's 17th Congressional District
Ballot access
The table below details filing requirements for U.S. House candidates in Pennsylvania in the 2024 election cycle. For additional information on candidate ballot access requirements in Pennsylvania, click here.
| Filing requirements for U.S. House candidates, 2024 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| State | Office | Party | Signatures required | Filing fee | Filing deadline | Source |
| Pennsylvania | U.S. House | Ballot-qualified party | 1,000 | $150.00 | 2/13/2024 | Source |
| Pennsylvania | U.S. House | Unaffiliated | 2% of votes cast in the district in the last election | $150.00 | 8/1/2024 | Source |
Election analysis
Click the tabs below to view information about competitiveness, presidential election history, and party control in the state.
- Competitiveness - Information about the competitiveness of 2024 U.S. House elections in the state.
- Presidential elections - Information about presidential elections in the state's U.S. House districts.
- State party control - The partisan makeup of the state's congressional delegation and state government.
This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in Pennsylvania.
| Pennsylvania U.S. House competitiveness, 2014-2024 | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Office | Districts/ offices |
Seats | Open seats | Candidates | Possible primaries | Contested Democratic primaries | Contested Republican primaries | % of contested primaries | Incumbents in contested primaries | % of incumbents in contested primaries | ||||
| 2024 | 17 | 17 | 0 | 45 | 34 | 4 | 2 | 17.6% | 3 | 17.6% | ||||
| 2022 | 17 | 17 | 2 | 48 | 34 | 5 | 6 | 32.4% | 2 | 13.3% | ||||
| 2020 | 18 | 18 | 0 | 51 | 36 | 6 | 5 | 30.6% | 2 | 11.1% | ||||
| 2018 | 18 | 18 | 7 | 84 | 36 | 13 | 8 | 58.3% | 6 | 54.5% | ||||
| 2016 | 18 | 18 | 2 | 44 | 36 | 4 | 5 | 25.0% | 4 | 25.0% | ||||
| 2014 | 18 | 18 | 2 | 46 | 36 | 6 | 3 | 25.0% | 2 | 12.5% | ||||
Post-filing deadline analysis
The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in Pennsylvania in 2024. Information below was calculated on April 7, 2024, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.
Forty-five candidates ran for Pennsylvania’s 17 U.S. House districts, including 25 Democrats and 20 Republicans. That’s 2.65 candidates per district, less than in the previous three election cycles. There were 2.82 candidates per district in 2022, 2.83 candidates per district in 2020, and 4.66 in 2018.
No districts were open in 2024, meaning all incumbents ran for re-election.
Seven candidates ran for the 10th Congressional District, the most candidates that ran for a district in 2024. The candidates included Republican incumbent Scott Perry and six Democrats.
Seven primaries—four Democratic and three Republican—were contested in 2024, the fewest this decade.
Three incumbents—two Democrats and one Republican—were in contested primaries. That’s higher than in 2022 and 2020 when two incumbents faced challengers, respectively.
The 3rd Congressional District was guaranteed to Democrats because no Republicans filed to run.| Cook Political Report's Partisan Voter Index for Pennsylvania, 2024 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| District | Incumbent | Party | PVI |
| Pennsylvania's 1st | Brian Fitzpatrick |  Republican |
Even |
| Pennsylvania's 2nd | Brendan Boyle |  Democratic |
D+20 |
| Pennsylvania's 3rd | Dwight Evans | Democratic |
D+39 |
| Pennsylvania's 4th | Madeleine Dean | Democratic |
D+7 |
| Pennsylvania's 5th | Mary Gay Scanlon | Democratic |
D+14 |
| Pennsylvania's 6th | Chrissy Houlahan | Democratic |
D+5 |
| Pennsylvania's 7th | Susan Wild | Democratic |
R+2 |
| Pennsylvania's 8th | Matt Cartwright | Democratic |
R+4 |
| Pennsylvania's 9th | Dan Meuser | Republican |
R+21 |
| Pennsylvania's 10th | Scott Perry | Republican |
R+5 |
| Pennsylvania's 11th | Lloyd Smucker | Republican |
R+13 |
| Pennsylvania's 12th | Summer Lee | Democratic |
D+8 |
| Pennsylvania's 13th | John Joyce | Republican |
R+25 |
| Pennsylvania's 14th | Guy Reschenthaler | Republican |
R+18 |
| Pennsylvania's 15th | Glenn Thompson | Republican |
R+21 |
| Pennsylvania's 16th | Mike Kelly | Republican |
R+13 |
| Pennsylvania's 17th | Christopher Deluzio | Democratic |
Even |
| 2020 presidential results in congressional districts based on 2024 district lines, Pennsylvania[5] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| District | Joe Biden
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Donald Trump
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| Pennsylvania's 1st | 51.8% | 47.2% | ||
| Pennsylvania's 2nd | 71.0% | 28.3% | ||
| Pennsylvania's 3rd | 90.2% | 9.3% | ||
| Pennsylvania's 4th | 58.9% | 40.0% | ||
| Pennsylvania's 5th | 65.7% | 33.4% | ||
| Pennsylvania's 6th | 56.8% | 42.0% | ||
| Pennsylvania's 7th | 49.7% | 49.1% | ||
| Pennsylvania's 8th | 48.0% | 50.9% | ||
| Pennsylvania's 9th | 31.0% | 67.5% | ||
| Pennsylvania's 10th | 47.2% | 51.3% | ||
| Pennsylvania's 11th | 38.6% | 59.9% | ||
| Pennsylvania's 12th | 59.4% | 39.5% | ||
| Pennsylvania's 13th | 26.8% | 72.0% | ||
| Pennsylvania's 14th | 33.7% | 65.2% | ||
| Pennsylvania's 15th | 30.8% | 67.8% | ||
| Pennsylvania's 16th | 39.0% | 59.7% | ||
| Pennsylvania's 17th | 52.3% | 46.5% | ||
Congressional delegation
The table below displays the partisan composition of Pennsylvania's congressional delegation as of May 2024.
| Congressional Partisan Breakdown from Pennsylvania | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | U.S. Senate | U.S. House | Total |
| Democratic | 1 | 7 | 8 |
| Republican | 1 | 10 | 11 |
| Independent | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Vacancies | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 2 | 17 | 19 |
State executive
The table below displays the officeholders in Pennsylvania's top four state executive offices as of May 2024.
| State executive officials in Pennsylvania, May 2024 | |
|---|---|
| Office | Officeholder |
| Governor | Josh Shapiro
|
| Lieutenant Governor | Austin Davis
|
| Secretary of State | Al Schmidt
|
| Attorney General | Michelle Henry
|
State legislature
Pennsylvania State Senate
| Party | As of February 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| Democratic Party | 22 | |
| Republican Party | 28 | |
| Independent | 0 | |
| Other | 0 | |
| Vacancies | 0 | |
| Total | 50 | |
Pennsylvania House of Representatives
| Party | As of February 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| Democratic Party | 101 | |
| Republican Party | 100 | |
| Other | 0 | |
| Vacancies | 2 | |
| Total | 203 | |
Trifecta control
The table below shows the state's trifecta status from 1992 until the 2024 election.
Pennsylvania Party Control: 1992-2024
One year of a Democratic trifecta • Twelve years of Republican trifectas
Scroll left and right on the table below to view more years.
| Year | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 00 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Governor | D | D | D | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | R | R | R | R | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D |
| Senate | R | D | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R |
| House | D | D | D | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | D | D | D | D | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | D | D |
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Inside Elections also uses Tilt ratings to indicate an even smaller advantage and greater competitiveness.
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Nathan Gonzalez," April 19, 2018
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Kyle Kondik," April 19, 2018
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Charlie Cook," April 22, 2018
- ↑ Daily Kos, "Daily Kos Elections' presidential results by congressional district for 2020, 2016, and 2012," accessed December 15, 2023
