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State Senator, 50th District

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1
Term
4 years
Candidates
2
Election
Nov 3, 2026

What this office does: A state senator votes on Pennsylvania laws and the state budget and confirms many of the Governor's appointments.

Covers all of Crawford County and all of Mercer County, plus part of Lawrence County.

CandidatesCompare by issue

Taxes & budget

  • Sue MulveyDemocratic

    • Supports reducing the tax burden on seniors and closing corporate tax loopholes to raise revenue.
    • Supports legalizing and taxing recreational marijuana and regulating and taxing skill games as new revenue.

  • Michele BrooksRepublican

    • Sponsored SB 100 to exempt the first $100,000 of family inheritances from tax; seeks to end the inheritance tax.In office

Public safety

  • Sue MulveyDemocratic

    No documented position found.

  • Michele BrooksRepublican

    • Sponsored bills to ease volunteer firefighter certification and create a high school firefighter training pilot.In office
    • Sponsored SB 96 to make false emergency threats against schools a third-degree felony.In office

Education

  • Sue MulveyDemocratic

    • Supports fully funding public schools and expanding career and technical education.

  • Michele BrooksRepublican

    • Sponsored SB 463 to allow the sale of Pennsylvania-produced whole milk in Pennsylvania schools.In office
    • Supports SB 9, which would limit female school and college athletic teams to athletes born female.In office

Economy & jobs

Roads & infrastructure

  • Sue MulveyDemocratic

    No documented position found.

  • Michele BrooksRepublican

    • Supported the 2026-27 budget's $775 million "Rapid Deployment" program to speed repairs to local state roads.In office

Health & human services

  • Sue MulveyDemocratic

    • Pledges to protect rural hospitals, expand access to primary and mental health care, and strengthen EMS.
    • Supports recruiting, retaining and educating nurses, physicians and other health care workers.

  • Michele BrooksRepublican

    • Sponsored SB 866 to classify medetomidine, an emerging street-drug additive, as a Schedule III controlled substance.In office
    • Amended HB 2344 to require advance state notice of hospital mergers and acquisitions over $10 million.In office

Government & transparency

  • Sue MulveyDemocratic

    • Says she will work with lawmakers of any party and views compromise as necessary if core values are kept.

  • Michele BrooksRepublican

    • Sponsored SB 444 requiring agencies to review regulations costing over $1 million a year after three years in effect.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; 7 issues covered in this race.