While the presidential election season has wrapped up until 2028, Pennsylvania will be holding consequential elections this year and in 2026.

Elections range from Municipal and PA Supreme Court retention elections this year to the Governor, Pennsylvania Congress and the U.S. House of Representatives in 2026.

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Retention Elections taking place on Nov. 4, 2025 include the following judges up for retention: Christine Donohue, David Wecht and Kevin M. Dougherty, and all three are currently holding seats for the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

If a judge is not retained, Gov. Josh Shapiro temporarily appoint a judge with approval from the Republican-controlled State Senate. This appointment would last until 2027, when there will be an election held for a permanent replacement.

The Pennsylvania House of Representatives will have all 203 seats on the ballot in Nov. 2026. The current breakdown of the state House of Representatives is Democrats with a one seat majority of 102 to the 101 Republicans. Republicans need to gain just one seat and maintain the current Senate to have a majority in both chambers.

The candidates up for reelection that represent Cumberland County are Republicans Thomas Kutz (District 87), Sheryl M. Delozier (District 88) and Torren Ecker (District 193).mA single Democratic candidate, Nathan Davidson (District 103), is also up for reelection.

The Pennsylvania Senate has 25 seats up in the 2026 elections.m12 Republican and 13 Democratic seats are up for the election. The current split in the State Senate is a Republican majority of 27 to the Democratic minority of 23 seats.

This means that the Democratic party in Pennsylvania would need to retain their 13 seats and pick up two to create a split chamber in the Pennsylvania Senate.

District 34 Rep. Greg Rothman, a Republican who represents Cumberland, Dauphin and Perry counties, is up for reelection in Nov. 2026.

Gov. Josh Shapiro is up for his reelection campaign in 2026, where a challenger has already emerged in the Republican party. According to Politico, PA State Treasurer Stacy Garrity has launched her campaign. She still has to win the Republican primary before she can run against the governor in the general election.

According to Politico, Garrity appears to be the frontrunner for the Republicans as of now, but PA State Sen. Doug Mastriano has entertained the idea of running in the gubernatorial election.

On the national stage, every U.S. House of Representatives member will be on the ballot in 2026. Pennsylvania will have all their representatives up for election, 10 of which are Republican and seven are Democrats.

According to the Cook Political Report, as of now the consensus is that 15 of the Pennsylvania seats are safe to remain with the same party following the next election in 2026. Two seats are seen as tossups, both currently being held by Republicans. Those seats are PA-7, held by Ryan Mackenzie, and PA-10, held by Scott Perry.

There is no Republican challenger as of now for the primary election against Mackenzie, but Perry does have Republican candidate Josh Hall to go against in the primary.

Candidates on the Democratic side for PA-7 are Bob Brooks, Ryan Crosswell, Lamont McClure, Carol Obando-Derstine and Mark Pinsley. Democrats seeking PA-10 are Justin Douglas and Janelle Stelson. Independent Isabelle Harman has also announced her candidacy for PA-10.

The dates provided by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for the 2025 election deadlines are Oct. 20, the last day to register before the Nov. election; Oct. 28, the last day to apply for mail-in or civilian absentee ballot; and Nov. 4, the last day for the county election office to receive mail-in and civilian absentee ballots and election day.

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