Scranton: who represents it, and who is running

U.S. general election (federal and state offices) with a Lackawanna County Home Rule Charter amendment votes on 2026-11-03. It elects governor/Lieutenant Governor (joint ticket); U.S. Representative PA-8; State Senate SD-22 (every Scranton precinct); State House HD-113 (City Hall; Scranton wards 4-1, 5-6, 9-12, 14-17, 19-20, 22, 24) and HD-114 (wards 1-3, 4-2, 7, 13, 21, 23: Bridget Malloy Kosierowski D vs Logan Lombardo R); a county Home Rule Charter amendment (ethics: stock trades/prediction-market bets). No U.S. Senate seat and no City of Scranton office is on the 2026 ballot..

Holding office14

the sitting council

On the ballot12

6 sitting members running again

The official candidate list ↗ · What Scranton is like — the /local page

Congressional district (city hall): Pennsylvania's 8th congressional district (whole city) — Robert P. Bresnahan, Jr. (Republican)

U.S. Representative — PA-8

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Paige Cognetti Elected	Mayor → Running for U.S. Representative	Democratic	PA-8	Lackawanna County
Robert P. Bresnahan, Jr. Elected	U.S. Representative → Running	Republican		U.S. House of Representatives

City Controller

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
John Murray Elected	City Controller	Independent	city-wide	Lackawanna County

Council Member

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Jessica Rothchild Elected	Council Member	Independent	At-Large	Lackawanna County
Mark McAndrew Elected	Council Member	Independent	At-Large	Lackawanna County
Patrick Flynn Elected	Council Member	Independent	At-Large	Lackawanna County
Sean McAndrew Elected	Council Member	Independent	At-Large	Lackawanna County
Tom Schuster Elected	Council Member	Independent	At-Large	Lackawanna County

Governor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Josh Shapiro Elected	Governor → Running	Democratic	Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Ken Krawchuk	Governor Running	Libertarian	Lackawanna County Bureau of Elections
Stacy Garrity	Governor Running	Republican	Lackawanna County Bureau of Elections

Lieutenant Governor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Austin A. Davis Elected	Lieutenant Governor → Running	Democratic	Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Jason Richey	Lieutenant Governor Running	Republican	Lackawanna County Bureau of Elections
John Thomas	Lieutenant Governor Running	Libertarian	Lackawanna County Bureau of Elections

State Representative — HD-113

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Kyle Donahue Elected	State Representative → Running	Democratic		Pennsylvania General Assembly
Lucas O Brien	State Representative Running	Republican		Lackawanna County Bureau of Elections

State Senator — SD-22

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Marty Flynn Elected	State Senator → Running	Democratic		Pennsylvania General Assembly
Sharon Soltis Sparano	State Senator Running	Republican		Lackawanna County Bureau of Elections

U.S. Senator

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
David McCormick Elected	U.S. Senator	Republican		@unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json)
John Fetterman Elected	U.S. Senator	Democratic		@unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json); senate.gov not fetched (403 to robots.txt in earlier rounds)

Notes on this record

How the lists were read, and what could not be.

Candidates: Lackawanna County Bureau of Elections 'Official Notice of Election for Military and Overseas Voters', 2026 General Election (PDF linked from the county Elections page, read 2026-10-31). It is the only candidate listing the county publishes for the general; it warns the list may change. The Pennsylvania Department of State's own certified list was not fetched. Names are as printed (uppercase); 'SHAPIR0' is printed with a zero and is recorded as Josh Shapiro.
Mayor Paige Cognetti (re-elected 2025) is the Democratic nominee for PA-8 against incumbent Rob Bresnahan Jr.; she is recorded once, as Mayor, status incumbent-running with runningFor 'U.S. Representative'.
MUNICIPAL — CITY SITE BLOCKED: www.scrantonpa.gov answered the robots.txt request itself with HTTP 503 'Your access to this site has been limited by the site owner' (Wordfence) on 2026-10-31, so the city's council, mayor and clerk pages were not read; no other UA, tool or mirror was tried. The municipal rows instead come from Lackawanna County's CERTIFIED election results: 2025 (Mayor Cognetti; Council at-large Patrick Flynn, Tom Schuster, Sean McAndrew — 'DNR' party code as printed for McAndrew; Gerald Smurl, Marc A. Pane and Virgil Argenta lost) and 2023 (Council four-year: Mark McAndrew, Jessica Rothchild; City Controller John Murray). Gerald Smurl won the 2023 two-year unexpired seat but finished outside the top three in 2025, so he is not listed. Certified results show who was elected, not later resignations or appointments — verify against the city's council page when it can be read. Council officer roles (president) are unknown. Municipal party is left null (council is elected at large on partisan ballots; parties shown in the results are DEM for all council winners except McAndrew 'DNR').
Also elected city-wide in 2025: Tax Collector Cathy Nealon Wechsler (DEM) per the 2025 certified results — not recorded as a person row (tax collector is a state-law collection office, not a charter office).
Districts covering the city (Census grid, 43 in-city points): PA-8 only; SD-22 only; HD-113 (23 points) and HD-114 (20 points). As the brief asks, only City Hall's state seats (SD-22, HD-113) are recorded as people; the HD-114 contest is in election.elects.
Next City of Scranton municipal election: November 2, 2027 (Pennsylvania municipal elections are in odd years) — the two council seats won in 2023 and the City Controller are up then.
Members: senators and the PA-8 member from the CC0 @unitedstates congress-legislators dataset and house.gov/representatives; state members from palegis.us Senate and House member lists (read 2026-10-31); Governor/Lt Governor from pa.gov (as used in us-pittsburgh). No home addresses, phones or personal emails recorded; the county notice prints none. standsFor is null for all (no candidate statements read).
Cross-check 2026-11-01: the Pennsylvania Department of State Candidate Database (https://www.pavoterservices.pa.gov/ElectionInfo/ElectionInfo.aspx, '2026 General Election', Approved primary nominees and paper nominations) agrees with the county notice: PA-8 Bresnahan Jr, Robert Paul (R) v Cognetti, Paige (D); SD-22 Flynn, Martin B (D) v Soltis, Sharon (R) (the county prints SHARON SOLTIS SPARANO); HD-113 Donahue, Kyle T (D) v O'Brien, Lucas (R); HD-114 Kosierowski (D) v Lombardo (R); Governor tickets Shapiro/Davis, Garrity/Richey, Krawchuk/Thomas (the Green ticket Dastra/Bolton is Withdrawn). The previous note that the DOS certified list was not fetched is superseded by this cross-check.

Sources

Prepared 2026-10-31. Nomination papers are never opened: they carry home addresses. After voting day a candidate list becomes a result; these rows are reconciled, not deleted.