The number of state lawmakers who are Black, Latino or of South Asian descent will rise as part of what House Democrats call the “most diverse class of freshmen legislators” in PA history after candidates ran in 2022 in a newly drawn map of districts.
The state's newly elected minority lawmakers are all Democrats, further deepening the disparity with Republicans who have long attracted fewer candidates or voters of color in Pennsylvania and elsewhere.
Black candidates had particular success this year: Street became the first Black chair of the state party, Lee will become Pennsylvania's first Black woman elected to Congress and Davis will become Pennsylvania's first Black lieutenant governor. For one, Pennsylvania was just one of four states that would have lost population over the past decade if not for Hispanic population gains, according to 2020 census figures.
But, on the House map, the court-appointed chairman of the Legislative Reapportionment Commission, former Pitt chancellor Mark Nordenberg, moved districts across the state from low-growth to high-growth areas, added districts to cities with big Hispanic populations and drew seven incumbent-free districts that represent relatively large populations of minorities.
One of the successful candidates, Greg Scott, who is Black, said he hopes to make laws that address failings — a need for bail reform and more funding for substance abuse, among them — that he discovered as a district judge in Norristown. In the end, just one was won by a Latino: Johanny Cepeda-Freytiz, Reading's City Council president who won a district that took in parts of the majority Hispanic city.Janet Diaz, the state Democratic Party’s Latino Caucus chair, blamed local party organizations, saying they have not tried hard enough to recruit and support Latino candidates.
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