Know Before You Vote

We asked candidates for US Congress, PA Senate (only even-numbered districts are up for election in 2026) and PA House to answer the following survey questions:

• What is your position on an independent citizens redistricting commission?
• What is your position on legislation to ensure transparency, public input, and clear, enforceable criteria for redistricting?
• What is your position regarding changes to procedural rules to ensure bills with clear bipartisan support receive a vote in committee and both chamber floors?

Candidates were invited to provide up to 3 links to their own statements or webpages. For incumbent candidates, we’re also providing cosponsor information on House Bill 31 and Senate Bill 131, legislation Fair Districts PA supported in the 2025-2026 session.

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Candidate Responses

Select a House, Senate or Congressional district from the left-hand drop-down menu below, or in the filter box to the right, enter the name of your county. Searching by county will filter the list in the box on the left to show all districts in that county. Be patient, it may take a few seconds to load.

If you are unsure of your Congressional District or State House or Senate District, the Department of State’s website: has a Find Your District tool.

No candidate response?

Our survey of candidates is not yet complete. If any of your candidates haven’t responded, you can help fill in the gaps:

1. Follow the steps above to see if your candidates responded.
2. If not, use the supplied campaign contact information to contact their campaigns. If there’s no email or webmail listed, send the campaign a message through Facebook. Ask the candidate to email electioninfo@FairDistrictsPA.com to request a survey form.
3. If you have campaign contact information that is not listed, please share that information with electioninfo@fairdistrictspa.com.
4. If a candidate has already responded, send them a thank-you email!

Find more information on incumbents’ support for redistricting reform in past sessions here by scrolling down to find your state legislator.

VOTE411 Voter’s Guide

The VOTE411 website by the League of Women Voters of PA is another excellent source of election information. Their Vote41 guide provides personalized election information, including candidate responses to specific policy questions. If you find legislative candidates who have not responded to the VOTE411 survey, use the campaign contact information from this page to request that they do. You can also suggest that if the candidate no longer has the link to the VOTE411 survey, they can email vote411@palwv.org to request one.

Are you a candidate?

Please email electioninfo@FairDistrictsPA.com and ask for a link to our survey. We’ll send you the survey link so you can tell us where you stand on creating an independent commission to redraw political maps.

Wondering why there’s a question about legislative rules?

In the years since Fair Districts PA began, it’s become increasingly clear that there’s a strong link between a leader-driven redistricting process and a legislative process that puts a great deal of power in the hands of a few leaders, who then block reforms that might limit that power. The American Bar Association Task Force on American Democracy Report describe the US as an “extreme outlier” in allowing legislators to draw district lines. Pennsylvania is an even more extreme outlier, in allowing just a few legislative leaders control over both redistricting and legislative process. We’ve learned that addressing one will require attention to the other as well.

For more on legislative process, and how it relates to redistricting reform, check FIx Harrisburg, a joint project of Fair Districts PA and FDPA’s fiscal sponsor, the League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania.