These are the Pa. House races to watch in November that will determine who takes or keeps control

All 203 state House seats are up for reelection this year. But only a handful of races will decide who will take or keep control.

Democrats shocked the state in 2022 when they flipped the state House for the first time in 12 years with a narrow majority. Officials expected the state’s new redistricted maps, which gave Republicans a slight edge over Democrats, to be more competitive, but didn’t expect them to flip it so soon.

House Democrats now control the lower chamber by only one vote, and at times had to lean on moderate Republicans from Bucks County to pass bills they couldn’t get their whole membership to support. Lawmaking halted on multiple occasions throughout the two-year legislative session because of more than a half dozen resignations that put Democrats under their numeric majority.

“We have shown what it means to really respond to the needs of everyday Pennsylvanians, our communities better,” said Joanna McClinton, the history-making House speaker representing parts of Philadelphia and Delaware County in the 191st District, who was elected after Democrats won control.



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