State

State Representative, 53rd District

Vote for: 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.

Lansdale, Hatfield, Souderton and Telford boroughs, Hatfield Township, part of Franconia Township (precincts 2, 5 and 8) and part of Montgomery Township (precincts 1-3).

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Yanni Lambros

Republican

Owner, Koffee Korner Cafe · Lansdale

The gist

Supports a larger state share of school funding to ease local property taxes, and senior tax relief.
Wants to cut regulations and simplify state requirements for small businesses.
Opposes large-scale data centers that are incompatible with surrounding communities.
Supports policies to preserve fair competition in women's and girls' sports and privacy in locker rooms.
Supports Second Amendment rights and focusing enforcement on violent criminals rather than gun owners.
Pledges to explain his major votes publicly and to support government transparency.

More about Yanni

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Supports a larger state share of school funding to ease local property taxes, and senior tax relief.
Priorities | Yanni Lambros for State Representative
Campaign website · Vote Yanni · voteyanni.com
“Yanni will support a fairer state share of school funding so local property taxpayers are not left carrying more of the burden.”
Wants to cut regulations and simplify state requirements for small businesses.
Priorities | Yanni Lambros for State Representative
Campaign website · Vote Yanni · voteyanni.com
“Yanni will work to reduce unnecessary regulations, simplify state requirements, and remove barriers that make it harder to start or grow a business.”
Opposes large-scale data centers that are incompatible with surrounding communities.
Priorities | Yanni Lambros for State Representative
Campaign website · Vote Yanni · voteyanni.com
“Yanni opposes large-scale data center projects that create excessive noise, traffic, energy demands, and pressure on local infrastructure”
Supports policies to preserve fair competition in women's and girls' sports and privacy in locker rooms.
Priorities | Yanni Lambros for State Representative
Campaign website · Vote Yanni · voteyanni.com
“Preserve fair competition in women's and girls' sports … Protect privacy in bathrooms and locker rooms”
Supports Second Amendment rights and focusing enforcement on violent criminals rather than gun owners.
Priorities | Yanni Lambros for State Representative
Campaign website · Vote Yanni · voteyanni.com
“Defend the constitutional rights of law-abiding firearm owners … Focus enforcement on violent criminals”
Pledges to explain his major votes publicly and to support government transparency.
Priorities | Yanni Lambros for State Representative
Campaign website · Vote Yanni · voteyanni.com
“Yanni will provide straightforward explanations of significant votes and legislation so residents can understand what is being proposed and why he supported or opposed it.”

Steve Malagari

DemocraticIncumbent

State representative · Lansdale

The gist

Supports access to reproductive care, including family planning, IVF and abortion, as a fundamental right.
Supports universal background checks, lost-and-stolen gun reporting, safe storage and extreme risk protection orders.
Supports raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour and lowering dependence on property taxes.
Supports same-day registration, early voting and an independent redistricting commission.
Supports a standardized state regulatory framework for data centers' resource use, power and zoning.
Says improving roads and public transportation is vital to the local economy.
Supported increased basic education funding and co-sponsored raising the minimum teacher salary.

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Supports access to reproductive care, including family planning, IVF and abortion, as a fundamental right.
Home | Steve Malagari
Campaign website · Friends of Steve Malagari · votemalagari.com
“Steve believes that access to reproductive care, including family planning, IVF, and abortion services, should be a fundamental right.”
Supports universal background checks, lost-and-stolen gun reporting, safe storage and extreme risk protection orders.
Priorities | Steve Malagari
Campaign website · Friends of Steve Malagari · votemalagari.com
“Universal background checks. Require background checks for private sales of long guns. … Empower family members and law enforcement to petition a judge to temporarily remove guns from a loved one in crisis.”
Supports raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour and lowering dependence on property taxes.
Priorities | Steve Malagari
Campaign website · Friends of Steve Malagari · votemalagari.com
“Minimum wage. Raise the minimum wage to $15/hour. … Property taxes. Lower our dependence on property taxes.”
Supports same-day registration, early voting and an independent redistricting commission.
Priorities | Steve Malagari
Campaign website · Friends of Steve Malagari · votemalagari.com
“Promoting same-day registration, early voting, and no-questions-asked absentee ballots. … An independent commission to re-draw our Congressional and legislative districts”
Supports a standardized state regulatory framework for data centers' resource use, power and zoning.
VOTE411 Voter Guide: Pennsylvania State Representative District 53
Candidate questionnaire · League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania · onyourballot.vote411.org
“I support the responsible regulation and oversight of data center development, especially as it pertains to their usage of natural resources, power generation, and zoning.”
Says improving roads and public transportation is vital to the local economy.
VOTE411 Voter Guide: Pennsylvania State Representative District 53
Candidate questionnaire · League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania · onyourballot.vote411.org
“improving infrastructure, like roadways and public transportation, is vital to supporting our local economy”
Supported increased basic education funding and co-sponsored raising the minimum teacher salary.
Priorities | Steve Malagari
Campaign website · Friends of Steve Malagari · votemalagari.com
“Teachers. Co-sponsored legislation to raise the minimum teacher salary.”

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