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Elections · U.S. House · Pennsylvania

2026 Pennsylvania House race, District 7

Ryan Mackenzie (Republican) and Bob Brooks (Democrat) are on the November 3, 2026 ballot for U.S. House in Pennsylvania District 7.

The November ballot

Mackenzie
$4.4M
Brooks
$2.4M

Raised so far, filed with the FEC

Not a prediction.

The seat

Ryan Mackenzie

Republican · Holds the seat now

First took office 2025 · Age 44

Discloses no individual stock trades.

Cosponsored a bill that would ban it

From the member's own disclosures and congress.gov. Not cosponsoring is not a vote against a ban.

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How to vote in Pennsylvania

  • General electionNovember 3, 2026 

Register 15 days before the election.

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How they won the primary

The primary · 68,865 votes

  • Bob Brooks Won: 41.0% 28,232
  • Ryan Crosswell: 21.3% 14,660
  • Lamont McClure: 19.9% 13,736
  • Carol Obando-Derstine: 17.8% 12,237

Primary results as recorded October 12, 2026, ordered by votes. Source: Pennsylvania Department of State certified primary returns. Certified June 17, 2026. A primary result is a recorded fact about a past contest, not a prediction of November.

The money on this race

Raised by candidates
$9.7M
Outside money
$9.5M

Outside money, for and against

Supporting Mackenzie$468K
Opposing Mackenzie$2.8M
Supporting Brooks$3.3M
Opposing Brooks$1.4M

Independent expenditures; direction is each filer's own declared filing. The other $1.6M of the race's $9.5M was spent on candidates not listed here.

Where each candidate's money comes from

13%$554KSmall donors$599K25%
21%$939KLarge donors$1.3M56%
24%$1MPACs$403K17%
<1%$5KParty$5K<1%
--Self-funding$3.5K<1%
42%$1.8MOther$39K2%

Small donors give $200 or less; PACs are political action committees. Shares of each candidate's own receipts on file with the FEC. Outside money is not part of these figures.

Other includes money transferred in from committees the candidate authorized, such as a joint fundraising committee, which reports its own donors to the FEC: Ryan Mackenzie $1.8M.

Who is spending on this race

The largest groups spending independently here, ranked; open a row for whose race the money went into.

1 to 5 of 54 groups

Independent expenditures reported to the FEC; direction is each group's own declared filing.

Also filed for this seat

8 filed

Not on the November ballot

Primary candidates who did not advance, committees still on file, and candidacies that ended. Being here is a filing fact, not a mark against anyone.

Ballot status not confirmed

None of these has campaign money on file with the FEC.

Filed with the FEC for this seat. No source on record says whether they qualified for the November ballot: independent and minor-party candidates qualify through the state, often by petition, and the FEC does not track whether they did.

How this seat voted last time

R+1.0 in 2024

  • Ryan Mackenzie Won: 50.5%
  • Susan Wild: 49.5%

403,314 votes for candidates. A past result is a filed fact, not a prediction of November.

Certified returns via MIT Election Data and Science Lab, from the House Clerk's election statistics and state canvasses.

The district

Census context
People
776K
Median household income
$82K
Unemployment
5.5%
Living below the poverty line
10.5%
Without health insurance
5.5%

U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2024 5-year estimates. Context about the district, not a statement about any candidate.

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Candidates and financing from the FEC, public domain. Candidate totals are reported to the FEC through June 30, 2026. Outside money is the FEC's processed total of independent expenditures plus the 24- and 48-hour reports filed since each group's latest regular report. It covers this two-year cycle, the same as the candidate totals. Dataset built 2026-10-12. Nothing here is a forecast, a grade, or a ranking of candidates.