2026 General Election · Tuesday, November 3, 2026

Pennsylvania House District 100

2 candidates, listed alphabetically.

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The job

A member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, elected “for the term of two years” and taking office on the first day of December after the election (Article II, Sections 2 and 3) ^[1]. Representatives must be at least twenty-one, have lived in the Commonwealth four years and the district one, and reside there throughout the term (Article II, Section 5) ^[1].

Where this office sits

Federal
State — this office
County
Local

A state office: its powers come from this state's own constitution and statutes.

What the job involves

Is elected every second year, with a term beginning “on the first day of December next after their election” — a month before most states' legislatures take office (Article II, Section 2) ^[1].
Sits as a continuing body: “The General Assembly shall be a continuing body during the term for which its Representatives are elected. It shall meet at 12 o'clock noon on the first Tuesday of January each year” (Article II, Section 4) ^[1].
Can force a special session: the governor “shall” call one “on petition of a majority of the members elected to each House” (Article II, Section 4) ^[1].
Considers every bill on three different days in each house, with amendments printed before the final vote, and any member group of twenty-five percent may require the bill “be read at length” before the vote (Article III, Section 4) ^[1].
Passes a bill only on a recorded majority of the whole chamber: the vote is “taken by yeas and nays, the names of the persons voting for and against it are entered on the journal, and a majority of the members elected to each House is recorded thereon as voting in its favor” (Article III, Section 4) ^[1].
Overrides a veto at “two-thirds of all the members elected” to each house (Article IV, Section 15) ^[1].
Answers an item veto item by item, each one void “unless re-passed according to the rules and limitations prescribed for the passage of other bills over the Executive veto” (Article IV, Section 16) ^[1].
Keeps the budget bill clean: “The general appropriation bill shall embrace nothing but appropriations for the executive, legislative and judicial departments of the Commonwealth, for the public debt and for public schools”, and everything else goes in separate single-subject bills (Article III, Section 11) ^[1].
Holds the governor's emergency powers on a clock: a disaster emergency declaration lasts no more than twenty-one days “unless otherwise extended in whole or part by concurrent resolution of the General Assembly” (Article IV, Section 20) ^[1].

What the next officeholder will decide

The work waiting in the term being elected, from what the law puts in the job.

Two state budgets, in a general appropriation bill the constitution restricts to the three departments, the public debt and the schools ^[1].
Every veto and every struck item the governor sends back ^[1].
Whether to extend a governor's disaster emergency past twenty-one days ^[1].
In the Senate, every appointment the governor submits, with a nominee taking office by default if the chamber fails to act within twenty-five legislative days ^[1].
A two-year term from December 2026 ^[1].

Worth asking a candidate

Ours, not a questionnaire anyone answered. They come from what the job actually involves.

A disaster emergency now expires in twenty-one days unless you extend it. Would you have voted for that amendment?
A quarter of your chamber can make a bill be read at length before the vote. Is that used, and should it be?
An override needs two-thirds of all members elected. Has that ever been within reach on something you care about?
The General Assembly is a continuing body, so a bill survives the turn of the year. What would you keep alive?
Which committee would you seek, and what does it decide?

Sources for the job

Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania — Article II (the legislature), Article III (legislation) and Article IV (the executive) (Pennsylvania General Assembly, Public record)

Where this office sits in state government

State Representative is one of 3 elected offices in this part of the drawing. The one handoff it is part of are drawn below and written out underneath.

How Pennsylvania's state government fits together. Not every office here is on this year's ballot, and each box leads to what that office does. The particulars — how a veto is overridden, how long a session runs — are on each office's own page, quoted from this state's constitution.

State Representative

A member of the lower chamber of the state legislature, which writes state law and the state budget.

A member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, elected “for the term of two years” and taking office on the first day of December after the election (Article II, Sections 2 and 3). Representatives must be at least twenty-one, have lived in the Commonwealth four years and the district one, and reside there throughout the term (Article II, Section 5).

Who it works with, and what passes between them:

To State Senator: A bill has to pass both chambers in the same form before it can reach the governor, so one chamber's vote only gets it halfway. In most states a bill that raises revenue has to start in the lower chamber.

State Senator

A member of the upper chamber of the state legislature. A bill has to pass both chambers.

A member of the Pennsylvania Senate: “Senators shall be elected for the term of four years” (Article II, Section 3), from a district the member must live in “during their terms of service” (Article II, Section 5). The Senate also confirms the governor's appointments — and an appointment it does not vote on within twenty-five legislative days is confirmed by default (Article IV, Section 8(b)).

Who it works with, and what passes between them:

From State Representative: A bill has to pass both chambers in the same form before it can reach the governor, so one chamber's vote only gets it halfway. In most states a bill that raises revenue has to start in the lower chamber.
To Governor: What both chambers pass goes to the governor to sign or veto. The share of each chamber needed to override a veto is set by this state's own constitution and is on the legislature's office page.
To Counties, cities, towns and school districts: The legislature writes the property tax, local tax and budget rules that every county, city, town and school district in the state has to work inside. A local council choosing a rate is choosing among options set here.

Governor

The state's chief executive. Signs or vetoes what the legislature passes, and runs the state agencies.

Pennsylvania's chief executive: “The supreme executive power shall be vested in the Governor, who shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed” (Article IV, Section 2). The term is four years from the third Tuesday of January, and a governor “shall be eligible to succeed himself for one additional term” — two terms, then out (Article IV, Section 3). The executive department also holds an elected attorney general, auditor general and treasurer, none of whom answer to this office (Article IV, Section 1).

Who it works with, and what passes between them:

From State Senator: What both chambers pass goes to the governor to sign or veto. The share of each chamber needed to override a veto is set by this state's own constitution and is on the legislature's office page.
To Counties, cities, towns and school districts: State agencies under the governor license, inspect, fund and audit the counties, cities and school districts below. Much of what a local government can do in practice depends on a state agency's rules.

Counties, cities, towns and school districts

Every local government in the state. None of them can tax or spend outside what the legislature allows.

Elected separately, each at its own level.

Who it works with, and what passes between them:

From State Senator: The legislature writes the property tax, local tax and budget rules that every county, city, town and school district in the state has to work inside. A local council choosing a rate is choosing among options set here.
From Governor: State agencies under the governor license, inspect, fund and audit the counties, cities and school districts below. Much of what a local government can do in practice depends on a state agency's rules.

Every office drawn here has its full description, quoted from Pennsylvania's own constitution with sources, on its race pages.

Candidates

Dale Allen Hamby

Independent

We haven't found a sourced summary for Dale Allen Hamby yet.

Where we looked:

2026 Pennsylvania House of Representatives election (Wikipedia): the article's district-by-district general-election breakdown named them. It gives the name, party and district and no account of the candidate's record. Pennsylvania's election office refuses automated requests, so no official candidate list could be read for this seat.

That is where we have looked so far, not everywhere there is to look. If you know Dale Allen Hamby's work or background, tell us — we'd rather print it than leave it blank.

Dave Nissley

Republican

We haven't found a sourced summary for Dave Nissley yet.

Where we looked:

2026 Pennsylvania House of Representatives election (Wikipedia): the article's district-by-district general-election breakdown named them. It gives the name, party and district and no account of the candidate's record. Pennsylvania's election office refuses automated requests, so no official candidate list could be read for this seat.

That is where we have looked so far, not everywhere there is to look. If you know Dave Nissley's work or background, tell us — we'd rather print it than leave it blank.

Sources

Candidate list and race details

2026 Pennsylvania House of Representatives election (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0)

What's included: U.S. Senate and House, statewide offices and every state legislative district on the ballot.
Everything else: Local races (county, city, school board, judges) and anything else on your ballot are on your official sample ballot: pavoterservices.pa.gov.
Candidate lists: As of Wednesday, October 14, 2026.

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