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2010 Pennsylvania House of Representatives election

elections

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ7163979 ↗
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The 2010 elections for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives were held on November 2, 2010, with all districts being contested. Necessary primary elections were held on May 18, 2010. The term of office for those elected in 2010 will run from January 4, 2011, until November 30, 2012. State Representatives are elected for two-year terms, with the entire House of Representatives up for election every two years.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “2010 Pennsylvania House of Representatives election” is elections. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Pennsylvania, House and Representatives, not as a finished interpretation.

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This entry incorporates text from “2010 Pennsylvania House of Representatives election” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.