Elections in Pennsylvania

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Template:Short description Template:ElectionsPA Elections in Pennsylvania elect the five state-level offices, the Pennsylvania General Assembly, including the senate and house of representatives, as well as the state's congressional delegation for the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. Presidential elections are held every four years in Pennsylvania. Considered a swing state, it is one of the most competitive nationally, with narrow victories that alternate between the parties across all major offices. On the presidential level, the state has voted for the nationwide loser on only 10 occasions (1824, 1884, 1892, 1912, 1916, 1932, 1948, 1968, 2000, and 2004), meaning it has voted for the national winner 83% of the time, as of 2020.

In a 2020 study, Pennsylvania was ranked by the Election Law Journal as the 19th hardest state for citizens to vote in, based on registration and identification requirements, and convenience provisions.[1]

House of Representatives

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Pennsylvania's congressional delegation is composed of nine Democrats and eight Republicans, since the 2022 elections.

The five most recent House elections:

Presidential elections

Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote". Below is a table of Pennsylvania's majority vote in the last twelve presidential elections, alongside the national electoral college results. On the presidential level, the state has voted for the nationwide loser on only 10 occasions – 1824, 1884, 1892, 1912, 1916, 1932, 1948, 1968, 2000, and 2004 – meaning it has voted for the national winner 83% of the time, as of 2020. Beginning with the 1992 election, the state has leaned Democratic, voting that way in seven of the nine elections from that year, though mostly by margins under 10 points.

Vote in Pennsylvania National vote
Year Candidate Year Candidate
1980 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"|Ronald Reagan 1980 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"|Ronald Reagan
1984 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"|Ronald Reagan 1984 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"|Ronald Reagan
1988 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"|George H. W. Bush 1988 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"|George H. W. Bush
1992 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"|Bill Clinton 1992 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"|Bill Clinton
1996 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"|Bill Clinton 1996 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"|Bill Clinton
2000 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"|Al Gore 2000 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"|George W. Bush
2004 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"|John Kerry 2004 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"|George W. Bush
2008 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"|Barack Obama 2008 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"|Barack Obama
2012 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"|Barack Obama 2012 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"|Barack Obama
2016 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"|Donald Trump 2016 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"|Donald Trump
2020 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"|Joe Biden 2020 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"|Joe Biden
2024 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"|Donald Trump 2024 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"|Donald Trump

United States Senate elections

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Class I Senate elections

The five most recent elections:

Class III Senate elections

The five most recent elections:

Republican Senator Dave McCormick entered office in 2025 after defeating Bob Casey Jr in the 2024 election. Democratic senator John Fetterman entered office in January 2023, succeeding Republican Pat Toomey who retired after two terms.

Gubernatorial elections

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Gubernatorial election results[2]
Year Democratic Republican
style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"|1950 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 48.3% 1,710,355 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 50.7% 1,796,119
style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"|1954 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 53.7% 1,996,266 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 46.2% 1,717,070
style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"|1958 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 50.8% 2,024,852 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 48.9% 1,948,769
style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"|1962 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 44.3% 1,938,627 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 55.3% 2,424,918
style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"|1966 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 46.1% 1,868,719 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 52.1% 2,110,349
style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"|1970 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 55.2% 2,043,029 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 41.7% 1,542,854
style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"|1974 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 53.7% 1,878,252 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 45.1% 1,578,917
style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"|1978 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 46.4% 1,737,888 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 52.5% 1,996,042
style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"|1982 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 48.1% 1,772,353 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 50.8% 1,872,784
style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"|1986 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 50.4% 1,717,484 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 48.4% 1,638,268
style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"|1990 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 67.7% 2,065,244 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 32.4% 987,516
style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"|1994 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 39.9% 1,430,099 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 45.4% 1,627,976
style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"|1998 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 31.0% 938,745 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 57.4% 1,736,844
style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"|2002 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 53.4% 1,913,235 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 44.4% 1,589,408
style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"|2006 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 60.3% 2,470,517 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 39.6% 1,622,135
style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"|2010 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 45.5% 1,814,788 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 54.5% 2,172,763
style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"|2014 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 54.9% 1,920,355 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 45.1% 1,575,511
style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"|2018 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 57.8% 2,850,210 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 40.7% 2,015,266
style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"|2022 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 56.5% 3,031,137 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 41.7% 2,238,477

The ten most recent elections:

Democrats and Republicans have alternated in the governorship of Pennsylvania every eight years from 1950 to 2010.[3] This has been referred to as "the cycle",[4][5] but it was broken with a Democratic Party win in 2014. Pennsylvania has also voted against the party of the sitting president in 19 of the last 21 gubernatorial contests dating back to 1938; Democrats lost 16 of the previous 18 Pennsylvania gubernatorial races with a Democratic president in the White House, a pattern begun in 1860.[6]

Pennsylvania General Assembly elections

The Pennsylvania General Assembly is a bicameral legislature, consisting of the Pennsylvania State Senate (the upper house) and the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (lower house). Members of the state house serve for 2 year terms, while the term for the state senate is 4 years. There are no limits on the amount of terms that members of the state legislature can serve. Republicans controlled the state House for all but four years from 1995 until 2023, and they have controlled the state Senate uninterrupted since 1993.

Senate

The five most recent elections:

House of Representatives

The five most recent elections:

See also

References

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External links

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