Elections · U.S. House · Pennsylvania
2026 Pennsylvania House race,
Rob Bresnahan (Republican) and Paige Cognetti (Democrat) are on the November 3, 2026 ballot for U.S. House in Pennsylvania District 8.
The November ballot
Raised so far, filed with the FEC
Not a prediction.
The seat
Rob Bresnahan
Republican · Holds the seat now
First took office 2025 · Age 36
From the member's own disclosures and congress.gov. Not cosponsoring is not a vote against a ban.
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 · 59,560 votes
- Paige Cognetti Won: 98.6% 58,726
The total includes 834 write-in or scattered votes not listed by candidate.
The primary · 38,995 votes
- Rob Bresnahan Won: 97.6% 38,075
The total includes 920 write-in or scattered votes not listed by candidate.
Primary results as recorded September 23, 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
- $9.8M
- Outside money
- $6.6M
Outside money, for and against
Independent expenditures; direction is each filer's own declared filing.
Where each candidate's money comes from
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: Rob Bresnahan $1.9M.
Who is spending on this race
The largest groups spending independently here, ranked; open a row for whose race the money went into.
Independent expenditures reported to the FEC; direction is each group's own declared filing.
Also filed for this seat
2 filedNot on the November ballot
None of these has campaign money on file with the FEC.
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.
The district
Census context- People
- 769K
- Median household income
- $68K
- Unemployment
- 6.0%
- Living below the poverty line
- 13.9%
- Without health insurance
- 6.1%
U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2024 5-year estimates. Context about the district, not a statement about any candidate.
How this seat voted last time
R+1.6 in 2024
- Rob Bresnahan, Jr. Won: 50.8%
- Matt Cartwright: 49.2%
385,074 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.
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.