Pennsylvania 2022 Election Results

Pennsylvania held its general election on November 8, 2022, deciding 228 legislative seats and 2 statewide offices led by the governorship. Control shifted: the House moved from a 113-90 Republican majority to a 102-101 Democratic majority.

Highlights

• Democrats won control of the state House for the first time in more than a decade, on the state's new legislative maps, giving incoming Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) one friendly chamber against a Republican Senate, where Democrats gained a seat.
• The one-seat House majority was not secure until February. Three Democratic winners would not take their seats: Rep. Anthony DeLuca (D) of House District 32 died a month before the election but stayed on the ballot, while Summer Lee (D) (District 34) won a seat in Congress and Austin Davis (D) (District 35) was elected lieutenant governor. That left Republicans a temporary 101-99 edge on swearing-in day, when Democrats and 16 Republicans elected Democrat Mark Rozzi speaker after he said he would serve as an independent speaker. Democrats swept all three special elections in February 2023, and Joanna McClinton became the first female speaker after Rozzi stepped down later that month.
• Shapiro, the state attorney general, beat state Sen. Doug Mastriano (R) by about 15 points for governor, outperforming John Fetterman at the top of the ticket in almost every county.
• Incumbent defeats supplied part of the margin, as voters ousted 5 incumbents, all but one of them Republicans:
  • Six-term Rep. Todd Stephens (R) lost Montgomery County's House District 151 to Melissa Cerrato (D) by about 60 votes after a fight over provisional ballots; that seat delivered the majority.
  • Christopher Quinn (R) lost District 168 to Lisa Borowski (D) and blamed "outcome-based maps".
  • Timothy Hennessey (R) lost District 26 to Paul Friel (D).
  • F. Todd Polinchock (R) lost District 144 to Brian Munroe (D) by about 500 votes.
  • The lone Democrat to lose, Chris Sainato (D), fell to Marla Brown (R) in House District 9 by about 1,500 votes.
• Beyond the incumbent defeats, 1 race finished inside two points: Joseph M. Hogan (R) held the open House District 142 in Bucks County by fewer than 80 votes over Mark Moffa (D). In the Senate, Democrats' one-seat gain came in Senate District 14, where Nick Miller (D) beat Dean Browning (R) by about 7 points. In 79 of the 228 legislative races, only one candidate was on the ballot.

Legislature

• House (203 seats): 90 D, 113 R before the election, 102 D, 101 R after; control moved from Republicans to Democrats.
• Senate (50 seats): 21 D, 29 R before the election, 22 D, 28 R after; control stayed with Republicans.

Statewide races

Legislative races