Source notes · U.S. House by county, 2022 vs 2026
File: PA.csv (67 counties). Columns: d = Democratic (party DEM), r = Republican (party REP), o = other ballot-listed House candidates (2022: Socialist Workers, PA-3; 2026: party code TIP, PA-3). Votes are summed over every "Representative in Congress" district contest in each county. Each candidate's Votes is the county total of Election Day + Mail-in + Provisional.
Pennsylvania Department of State, https://www.electionreturns.pa.gov/. The site sits behind Incapsula bot protection, so the data was read in a browser tab through the site's own JSON API:
- 2022 (certified): https://www.electionreturns.pa.gov/api/ElectionReturn/GetCountyData?countyName=<COUNTY>&methodName=GetCountyData&electionid=94&electiontype=G&isactive=0 for each of the 67 counties ("2022 General Election", election id 94). Office "Representative in Congress".
- 2026 (unofficial): the same endpoint with electionid=117&electiontype=G&isactive=1 ("2026 General Election (Unofficial Returns)").
As of: fetched 2026-11-09 ~9:30–9:35 pm ET. The API gives no last-updated timestamp; the GetUpdatedTimeStamp endpoint returns an empty value.
- County reporting status: GetCountyMessageData (same parameters).
- FIPS codes: Census national_county2020.txt.
| Year | Column | Our sum | Reference | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | D | 2,436,919 | 2,436,919 (FEC) | 0 |
| 2022 | R | 2,702,262 | 2,702,262 | 0 |
| 2022 | Other | 12,820 | 41,704 | −28,884 |
| 2026 | D | 2,809,076 | 2,796,981 (Nov 9 6:10 pm ET aggregate) | +12,095 |
| 2026 | R | 2,143,631 | 2,140,392 | +3,239 |
| 2026 | Other | 17,424 | (not reported) | — |
o22 is therefore only Christopher Hoeppner (SWP, PA-3) = 12,820, which matches FEC exactly.Partly. The 2026 two-party total (4,952,707) is 3.6% below 2022 (5,139,181). PA's GetCountyMessageData shows:
- 64 of 67 counties have 100% of election districts reporting.
- Montgomery: 311 of 428 districts (72.7%), the one big gap. Its 2026 House total is 389,190 against 411,573 in 2022.
- Philadelphia: 1,692 of 1,703; Allegheny: 1,322 of 1,327.
- Statewide: 8,932 of 9,065 election districts.
Statewide mail-in House votes (1,144,947 in 2026 vs 1,160,562 in 2022) show mail ballots are largely counted. The county status message says "IN PERSON BALLOT REPORTING ONLY", so the district counts do not measure mail or provisional completeness. Montgomery, and to a lesser extent Philadelphia and Allegheny, should rise as counting finishes. Provisional ballots are still being adjudicated statewide. Even so, some of the drop likely reflects lower turnout in uncompetitive races, because 2022 also had the Senate and Governor races at the top of the ticket.
d22 or r22 from those districts is 0. The brief says FEC shows 3 districts with no D. The state data shows only 2 districts with no Democrat on the ballot. In PA-15, FEC labels Mike Molesevich "W(D)/D": he won the Democratic nomination as a primary write-in but was the Democratic nominee on the general ballot, and his 91,729 votes are in both FEC's D total and ours. That label is probably where the third "no D" district comes from.o in both years because PA DOS does not publish them. o = 0 in most counties means no third-party candidate was on the ballot, not that the data is missing.These notes record where each number came from and how it was checked. 2026 figures are unofficial. See the methodology and disclaimer.