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Member of Congress · 119th Congress

Official portrait of Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon

Mary Gay Scanlon

DEMOCRAT U.S. Representative · PennsylvaniaHouse 2018–now (PA-7, PA-5)

Mary Gay Scanlon is a Democratic U.S. representative from Pennsylvania, in Congress since 2018, who voted with most Democrats on 98% of the 119th Congress’s yes/no votes.

117Bills & resolutions sponsored115th–119th Congress (excludes amendments)
2Passed a chamberof 77 substantive bills (excludes resolutions and ceremonial bills)
0Became law115th–119th Congress · 0 this Congress
10Broke with partyof 662 yes/no votes, 119th (1.5%)
10Missed votesof 675 roll calls, 119th (1.5%)
$7.5MPork: own shareFY2024 earmarks, 14 items; shared items split

How we count: “Broke with party” is a yes/no roll call where the member voted against most of their own party on that vote (party as recorded; even splits not counted). “Pork: own share” splits each earmark shared by several members evenly among them.

5 most recent votes

5 most recent bills

Top bills sponsored

Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.

Committees

Elections Rep. Scanlon has won

Rep. Scanlon has won 4 U.S. House elections (2018–2024). Of the contested races, margins ran from 29.4 to 30.6 points.

010204060Margin of victory, points (axis starts at 0)2018, PA-5: won by 30.4 points2018PA-52020, PA-5: won by 29.4 points20202022, PA-5: won by 30.2 points20222024, PA-5: won by 30.6 points2024
Democratic winRepublican winseat changed partyunopposed
Elections won4 in the data (1976–2024); losses are not listed
Closest win: 29.4 points2020, PA-5
Won an open seat or took one from the other party1 of 4 elections (open seat or changed party)
Seat history, Pennsylvania’s 5th districtWinners, most recent three: John Peterson (R) 1996–2006 → Glenn Thompson (R) 2008–2016 → Mary Gay Scanlon (D) 2018–2024. Elections shown, not terms; special elections not included.

Full election history for this seat →

Source: MIT Election Data and Science Lab, U.S. House V15 / U.S. Senate V8 (CC0), retrieved 2026-10-18; winners matched to member records by seat and term. Results run through the 2024 elections; nothing from 2026 is shown until it is certified. A margin is a fact about one election, never a score of how well a member represents anyone, and PORKER does not rank members by it.

How has Pennsylvania’s 5th district done while Rep. Scanlon served?

2019 to 2024 in PA-5: typical household income was about the same after inflation, the share of people below the poverty line was about the same, and the share of workers looking for a job was about the same.

Typical household income · after inflationPA-5 $85.9KU.S. $81.6KPennsylvania $77.5K
PA-5: $88.5K in 2019 → $85.9K in 2024
PA-5 about the samePennsylvania about the sameU.S. up 1%
Share of people below the poverty lineU.S. 12.1%Pennsylvania 11.6%PA-5 11.3%
PA-5: 11.4% in 2019 → 11.3% in 2024
PA-5 about the samePennsylvania down 0.4 pointsU.S. down 0.2 points
Share of workers looking for a jobPA-5 5.1%U.S. 4.6%Pennsylvania 4.3%
PA-5: 5.8% in 2019 → 5.1% in 2024
PA-5 about the samePennsylvania about the sameU.S. up 0.1 points

Each mini chart has its own scale, fitted to its lines (it does not start at zero), so compare the numbers, not the heights. Teal = district, oxblood = state, grey = U.S.

While they served, not because of them. This shows what happened in Pennsylvania’s 5th district during Scanlon’s time representing it (2019 to now). It does not say what the member did or caused. It is not a score, and PORKER never ranks members on it.

One set of district lines. PA-5 was redrawn in 2012 and again in 2018 (the survey year the new lines first appear), but every survey year in Scanlon’s term so far (2019 to 2024) uses the same lines, so they can be compared. The Census Bureau has no 2020 yearly estimate.

See the full 20-year record →Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates (tables B19013, B17001, B23001) and BLS CPI-U-RS for inflation, retrieved October 18, 2026. “About the same” means the change is inside the 90% margins of error. Who held the seat: Congress.gov member service records, year level.

Local offices

Offices in the district or state, as listed in a public-domain community file. The Washington office is in the Contact section above.

Source: unitedstates/congress-legislators, district-offices file, September 24, 2026 ↗Licence: CC0 (public domain)
Evidence
File
legislators-district-offices-2026-09-24-8d698e92.json, entries S001205-chester (1 office)
Published at
https://unitedstates.github.io/congress-legislators/legislators-district-offices.json
File date
September 24, 2026 (server “last modified”)
Retrieved by PORKER
October 16, 2026
File SHA-256
8d698e92f8ebae3bdd387bfef239584164160e59d444ba1cbff46f32aa450f59
Licence
CC0 1.0 (public domain)

Read this first. This list is kept up by volunteers and may be out of date. Confirm hours and addresses on the member’s official site, scanlon.house.gov.

Federal figures for PA-5

Social Security and VA figures for this member’s district. The full table, sources and notes are on the district page.

148,834people receiving Social Security (OASDI) benefits, Dec 2025
Source: SSA, Table 1, April 2026 ↗
Evidence
Publisher
U.S. Social Security Administration, Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics, “Congressional Statistics, 2025”
Table / row
Table 1; sheet 'PA - OASDI', row 10
Data as of
December 2025; released April 2026
Licence
CC0 1.0, per the Data.gov record (id US-GOV-SSA-3372; record modified April 27, 2026)
Retrieved by PORKER
October 16, 2026
Full file
cong_stats25.xlsx ↗
File SHA-256
7d31378275e2801fafd143bb96877c3407261b24767b935661ab5f915f2fe87f
17,113people receiving SSI payments, Dec 2025
Source: SSA, Table 2, April 2026 ↗
Evidence
Publisher
U.S. Social Security Administration, Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics, “Congressional Statistics, 2025”
Table / row
Table 2; sheet 'PA - SSI', row 11
Data as of
December 2025; released April 2026
Licence
CC0 1.0, per the Data.gov record (id US-GOV-SSA-3372; record modified April 27, 2026)
Retrieved by PORKER
October 16, 2026
Full file
cong_stats25.xlsx ↗
File SHA-256
7d31378275e2801fafd143bb96877c3407261b24767b935661ab5f915f2fe87f
$198,591,253VA direct expenditures attributed to this district, FY2025
Source: VA GDX FY2025, CD Direct, September 2026 ↗
Evidence
Publisher
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Center for Veterans Analysis and Statistics
File
GDX_FY25.xlsx, sheet 'CD Direct Exp', row 333, code PA05
Prepared
September 2026 (per the file’s data guide)
Boundaries
119th Congress districts
Licence
U.S. government work; no licence statement found on the VA page
Retrieved by PORKER
October 16, 2026
File SHA-256
1cf95d35c842b0064eacb3055db4441a775163919a3e90d21d30d4966aefaf25

Open the PA-5 page, with notes →

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Official records on bills this member sponsored

119th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 28 bills sponsored.

RecordBillsSource
Bills sponsored28Source: Congress.gov member record, PORKER copy of October 26, 2026 ↗ See them →
With a sponsor’s constitutional-authority statement24See the 24 →
With a CBO cost estimate listed0None listed
With a committee report listed0None listed
With a Congress.gov note1See the 1 →
Evidence
How counted
Bills where this member is the lead (first-listed) sponsor in the 119th Congress, read from the stored Congress.gov bill records
Fields
cboCostEstimates, committeeReports, constitutionalAuthorityStatementText, notes
PORKER copy refreshed
October 26, 2026 (nightly)

Read this first. These are counts of records Congress.gov lists. Many bills never get a CBO estimate or a report, so a zero is not a mark against a member. We never show this as a score.

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Data as of Oct 26, 2026 (member stats) · latest recorded House vote Sep 16, 2026 · Sources: Congress.gov, Senate.gov, House Clerk, Appropriations Committee earmark tables. PORKER is non-partisan.