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2026 candidates we're tracking in PA-12
Summer Lee
Top priorities
- Centering working people in economic policy
- Shifting investment from punitive systems toward community building programs
Per the campaign site.
About Summer Lee
Lee currently represents Pennsylvania's 12th District in the U.S. House, per the campaign site. The campaign site says Lee has secured more than 2.7 billion dollars in federal funding for the district, including investments in green jobs, transit, lead remediation, and affordable housing, per the campaign site.
James Hayes
James Hayes is an economist and the son of a steelworker, with a career that includes work at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond; he has lived in the Pittsburgh area since 2005, per his campaign site. The 2024 Republican nominee in this district, he won the May 19, 2026 Republican primary unopposed, per Pennsylvania's official primary returns.
About this race
Pennsylvania's 12th Congressional District elects one member of the U.S. House of Representatives to a two-year term. Every House seat in the country is on the ballot in 2026. The Pennsylvania primary is Tuesday, May 19, 2026, and the general election is Tuesday, November 3, 2026.