{"id":158507,"date":"2026-04-06T13:29:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T13:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/158507\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T13:29:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T13:29:26","slug":"here-are-the-primary-candidates-running-to-represent-berks-in-congress-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/158507\/","title":{"rendered":"Here are the primary candidates running to represent Berks in Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The May primary election will be uneventful when it comes to Berks County\u2019s congressional delegation.<\/p>\n<p>None of the three U.S House members who represent parts of the county will see a challenger this spring. But with candidates of the opposing party running in all three districts, each of them will face opponents in the fall.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s who is running in each of the three congressional districts that cover parts of Berks.<\/p>\n<p>Incumbents are denoted by an asterisk.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"The congressional districts in Berks County.\" width=\"1467\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775482166_317_REG-L-USHouseDistricts-01.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"1546121\" \/>The congressional districts in Berks County.<br \/>\n4th Congressional District<\/p>\n<p>Democrat<\/p>\n<p>*Madeleine Dean<\/p>\n<p>Republican<\/p>\n<p>Aurora Stuski<\/p>\n<p>6th Congressional District<\/p>\n<p>Democrat<\/p>\n<p>*Chrissy Houlahan<\/p>\n<p>Republican<\/p>\n<p>Martin Young<\/p>\n<p>9th Congressional District<\/p>\n<p>Democrat<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.readingeagle.com\/2025\/12\/11\/longtime-public-servant-running-for-9th-congressional-district-in-pa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel Wallace<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Republican<\/p>\n<p>*Dan Meuser<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The May primary election will be uneventful when it comes to Berks County\u2019s congressional delegation. None of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,836,3612,182,883,139,28,50,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-158507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-election","tag-election-2026","tag-local-news","tag-local-politics","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-politics","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}