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An initiative to provide nonpartisan, independent elections journalism for southwestern Pennsylvania.

How to find your district and polling place in Pennsylvania — and guidance on voting in person

Election workers set up voting booth dividers at a polling place.
Keith Srakocic
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Cecelia Peterson, the majority inspector for the Cranberry West 5 voting precinct, left, and clerk Fred Peterson set up folding voting booth dividers in one of the rooms in the Cranberry Township Municipal Center prior to voting in the 2022 Pennsylvania Primary Election, Monday, May 16, 2022.

What district am I in again?

Pittsburgh residents

Find your City Council district with this interactive map.

Find your Pittsburgh Public Schools board district with this interactive map.

    Allegheny County residents

    Find your County Council district with this interactive map.

    • Looking for information on the candidates running in your districts to represent Pittsburgh and Allegheny County? The WESA Voter Guide includes overviews of all contested races and profiles of the candidates.

    Find your polling place

    If you’d like to vote in person for the general election, great! It’s a good idea to double-check your polling place in advance because they can move due to a variety of issues. (During the 2020 primary, many counties, including Allegheny, consolidated polling places for COVID-19 safety reasons.)

    You can find your polling place on the Pennsylvania Department of State website.

    In-person voting on election day

    Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. If you’re in line at 8 p.m., you will be allowed to vote.

    I registered to vote by mail, but now I want to vote in person!

    If you applied for and received your mail-in ballot, but now you’ve changed your mind and want to vote in person, you’ll need to follow some rules.

    1. Bring your "ballot package" to the polling place. This means your ballot and all envelopes. The ballot comes in an envelope, but it also contains the secrecy and declaration envelope. 
    2. Submit your "ballot package" to the poll workers so it can be "spoiled."
    3. They’ll have you fill out an “Elector’s Declaration to Surrender Their Mail Ballot” form that looks like this.
    4. OK, now you can vote in person. Democracy in action!

    If you don’t bring these materials with you to vote in person, then you will have to vote provisionally — which just means it’ll take a little longer to count your vote because they’ll check to make sure you didn’t try to vote twice.

    Patrick Doyle oversees WESA's digital strategy and products. Previously, he served as WESA's news director. Email: pdoyle@wesa.fm.