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Election Day is Nov. 5.
Pennsylvanians’ ballots will not only feature the presidential and U.S. Senate contests, but also hundreds of races for the state House and Senate, which could determine the direction of state policy for years to come and receive comparatively little attention.
Voters will also choose representatives for Pennsylvania’s 17 congressional districts and statewide offices for attorney general, auditor general and treasurer.
Editor’s note: We created a nonpartisan voter guide to help Southwestern Pennsylvanians learn about who will be on their ballots and how to cast their votes. PublicSource does not endorse candidates. To broaden this public service and acknowledge our region’s interconnectedness, we expanded our coverage area to include all eight counties that make up the Pittsburgh Metropolitan Statistical Area.
All Pennsylvania voters will cast ballots for president, U.S. senator and the state row offices of attorney general, auditor general and treasurer. Each voter will have races for state House and U.S. House on their ballot. Some voters will have state Senate races, and a handful of municipalities will have local referendum questions to vote on.
What district you vote in depends on where you live.
Editor’s note: Candidates are listed here in the order they will appear on the ballot. According to Pennsylvania law, the candidates are ordered by how many votes their party received in the last election for governor.
U.S. President
Kamala Harris
Donald Trump
Chase Oliver
Jill Stein
U.S. Senate
Bob Casey
Dave McCormick
John Thomas
Leila Hazou
Attorney General
Eugene DePasquale
Dave Sunday
Robert Cowburn
Richard Weiss
Justin Magill
Eric Settle
Auditor General
Malcolm Kenyatta
Tim DeFoor
Reece Smith
Eric Anton
Alan Goodrich
Treasurer
Erin McClelland
Stacy Garrity
Garrity is the incumbent treasurer, and was first elected in 2020.
Nickolas Ciesielski
Troy Bowman
Chris Foster
Find congressional and legislative races by county
If you see an error in our voter guide, or want to provide more information about one of the candidates, please email our local government reporter Charlie Wolfson at charlie@publicsource.org.
This voter guide was assembled by Charlie Wolfson and Spencer Levering, designed by Natasha Vicens and fact-checked by Amber Frantz.
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