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State Representative, 122nd District

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1
Term
2 years
Candidates
2
Election
Nov 3, 2026

What this office does: A state representative votes on Pennsylvania laws and the state budget in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.

All of Carbon County.

CandidatesCompare by issue

Taxes & budget

  • Christian BartulovichDemocratic

    • Supports eliminating school property taxes and replacing them with broad-based funding.
    • Calls for state spending restraint, saying Harrisburg has a spending problem rather than a revenue problem.

  • Doyle HeffleyRepublican

    • Supported a bill requiring data center operators to pay taxes like other businesses, per FOX56.
    • Proposes capping sudden school millage increases in multi-county districts at the Act 1 Index.In office

Public safety

  • Christian BartulovichDemocratic

    • Calls for recruitment, training and certification support for volunteer fire and EMS crews.

  • Doyle HeffleyRepublican

    No documented position found.

Housing

  • Christian BartulovichDemocratic

    • Proposes giving residents first chance to buy homes before corporate investors, and penalties for vacant homes.

  • Doyle HeffleyRepublican

    No documented position found.

Economy & jobs

Roads & infrastructure

  • Christian BartulovichDemocratic

    No documented position found.

  • Doyle HeffleyRepublican

    • Opposes residents paying higher electricity or infrastructure costs for data centers.In office

Environment & parks

  • Christian BartulovichDemocratic

    No documented position found.

  • Doyle HeffleyRepublican

    • Voted against a bill requiring data centers to use a share of alternative-energy electricity, per FOX56.
    • Calls for data centers to be sited on industrial sites and brownfields rather than forested mountainsides.In office

Health & human services

  • Christian BartulovichDemocratic

    • Supports full practice authority for nurse practitioners and PAs where doctors are scarce.

  • Doyle HeffleyRepublican

    • Proposes moving Pennsylvania to chip-enabled EBT cards to curb SNAP benefit skimming.In office

Government & transparency

  • Christian BartulovichDemocratic

    • Supports municipal control of zoning and land use; opposes state preemption bills.

  • Doyle HeffleyRepublican

    • Sponsored a bill letting municipalities adopt an 18-month moratorium on data center development.

Courts & justice

  • Christian BartulovichDemocratic

    No documented position found.

  • Doyle HeffleyRepublican

    • Voted against a House second-degree murder sentencing bill; backed a Senate version with a 35-year minimum.In office

Challengers are listed first and incumbents last; otherwise candidates appear in ballot order. The Gist does not rank, rate or endorse candidates. Only positions backed by a cited source are shown; 9 issues covered in this race.