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"2025 Your Government Officials"

Front cover of Your Gov Officials directory

Welcome to the League of Women Voters of Greater Pittsburgh!

"Empowering Voters. Defending Democracy."

2025 is a Wrap! See our Year in Review!

Our 300 members volunteered over 10,000 hours! What did we accomplish?

Bus shelter posters throughout the city reminded commuters to vote in the municipal primary and provided links to nonpartisan candidate information.

The Voter Service teams in 2025...

Logged over 3,500 hours designing and distributing election information, planning and staffing candidate events, and providing registration assistance throughout the county.
Had over 5,000 in-person voter education conversations with community members at local food bank distributions.
Provided voter information to seniors at 250+ senior residential buildings, senior centers, rehabilitation facilities, and Meals on Wheels locations, and to 650 faith-based groups.
Designed, printed and distributed 10,000 of "Ready to Vote" flyers with election dates and details
Reached over 700 new citizens at naturalization ceremonies.
Sponsored or co-sponsored 6 candidate forums.

Volunteers from B-PEP and LWVPGH distribute voter information at a Food Bank drive-up.

Volunteers assemble "Ready, Set, Vote" bags at a packing bee.

The Civic Education team in 2025...

Presented classroom lessons which reached 1,100 high school and college students.
Designed, packaged, and distributed 4,000 "Ready, Set, Vote" bags to students and community groups.
Sent "Happy 18th Birthday" posters with a voter registration QR code to all high schools in Allegheny, Beaver, Butler, Washington, and Westmoreland counties. These posters received nearly 1,000 QR clicks this year.
Created 4 new videos for the municipal elections.
Created municipal election "explainers" that received over 10,000 views combined.

Why Bother Voting in Municipal Elections????

Video Title Slide - "Your Government Starts Here"

Because "Your Government Starts Here.... with YOU!" "Your Government Starts Here"

In a year with new restrictions on our participation, our adaptable Naturalization Team continued to serve 700+ new citizens with voter information and registration assistance. The League continues to volunteer at courthouse ceremonies, and a new web page serves new citizens with access to the information we are no longer able to distribute in person. 100s of new citizens have used the links provided to access the New Citizens page.

Allegheny County's 131 municipalities and 40+ school districts make the LWVPGH Vote411 team the busiest in the nation during municipal election years.

Our Vote411 team reached out to over 1,000 candidates and posted information for 100s of local municipal races.

Vote411 candidate information reached Allegheny County voters through:

Over 15,000 visits to Vote411.org from Allegheny County
2,500 copies of the printed Voters' Guide distributed in both the Primary and General Elections
3,000 - 4,000 views of the online Voters' Guide in both the Primary and General Elections
10,000+ combined views of our 2025 Vote411 "mini-guides" for 9 individual races

Your Government Officials: 2025

40,000 printed copies of "Your Government Officials: 2025" were distributed through Allegheny County libraries and at our Civic Education and Voter Service events.

In addition, there were 3,800 views of the digital version of Your Government Officials.

"Your Government Officials" is a government "user's manual" for Allegheny County residents, containing contact information for public officials serving Allegheny County, and election and voting details for Pennsylvania residents.

In 2025, our volunteers gave "Your Government Officials" a new look and layout!

The Web Team...

Created, posted, and updated local content for all elections in Allegheny County

4 new pages for the May Primary received over 10,000 visitors

4 new pages for the General Election received over 30,000 visitors

Provided specialized local information for all Allegheny County voters, including new citizens, Spanish speakers, incarcerated and returning citizens, and community groups.

The digital versions of our spring and fall Voters' Guides received about 5,000 views each.

Working with Community Partners in 2025

Judy Clack (LWVPGH) announces pop-up voter registration locations organized by the Voting is Power (VIP) Coalition for National Voter Registration Day. The League, the Black Political Empowerment Project, Just Harvest, YWCA-PGH and 30 other local organizations make up the VIP Coalition.

Lorraine Cook Cross (B-PEP, LWVPGH) and Amy Kleissas (LWVPGH) are honored at the Allegheny County Jail's Volunteer Appreciation Dinner for their work organizing voter registration and absentee ballot requests at the jail. In 2025, 223 new voters registered, and 260 received absentee ballots.

LWVPGH partnered with Indivisible and many other nonprofits to cosponsor the "Hands Off" and "No Kings" rallies. LWVPGH members attended 30 rallies in 2025, including Hands Off, No Kings 1 & 2, May Day Immigrant Support, Rally for Science & Democracy, and Democracy Mondays.

LWVPGH is a member of the Allegheny Youth Vote Coalition which hosted student led mayoral candidate forums before the Primary, and a "Youth Huddle" and student led high school registration drives in the fall.

Women's History Tea Party co-hosted by LWVPGH and the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), Greater Pittsburgh Chapter.

In November, the MIT D-Lab's Women and Democracy Project led a Codesign Workshop for Pittsburgh area women's organizations. The event was cosponsored by the Chatham University Center for Women & Politics, LWVPA, and LWVPGH. Participating organizations included local chapters of the Women & Girls Foundation, YWCA, AAUW, CEDAW, NCNW, the Links and LWVPGH.

With our frequent partners in the Voting is Power (VIP) Coalition at the John Lewis Day of Action

Thinking About Running for Office?

Get "Ready to Run"

"Ready to Run," hosted by the Chatham University Center for Women & Politics, is a nonpartisan program for women seeking public office or a deeper involvement in politics. Attendees receive training in fundraising and media skills, the logistics of getting on the ballot, and real-world advice from experts.

This year's keynote speaker is Allegheny County Executive, (and "Ready To Run" alum), Sara Innamorato.

For more information, and registration details, visit the event website at  www.pcwp.chatham.edu/ready-to-run .

LWVPGH and LWVPA are co-sponsors of this event.

Resources for Your Classroom or Community Group from LWVPGH!

5 Freedoms of the 1st Amendment
www.lwvpgh.org/docs.ashx?id=1578375

Attending a Protest
www.lwvpgh.org/docs.ashx?id=1578376

INSTRUCTIONS--PA VR Appl

www.lwvpgh.org/docs.ashx?id=1043919

election disinfo dos and don'ts - Engish

Election Disinfo Do's and Don'ts
www.lwvpgh.org/docs.ashx?id=1386650

Our Civic Education and Voter Resources are always free, but donations to help pay for our software, printing, and tabling costs are appreciated! Digital Tip Jar

LWVPGH Speakers Bureau

Book a Presentation by our Speakers Bureau for your Classroom or Community Group!

Choose from topics like:

2025 Municipal Elections
The 5 Freedoms in the 1st Amendment
Resilience to Misinformation
Election Security

Visit our Speakers Bureau page to choose a topic and submit your request!

LWV Advocacy

LWVUS Declares that the United States is in a Constitutional Crisis

"The foundational principles that have sustained our democracy — checks and balances, the rule of law, free and fair elections — are under direct and sustained threat. In this extraordinary moment, we cannot proceed with business as usual. All Americans — no matter who you voted for in 2024 — need to come together, stand united, and fight back to save our democracy. We cannot afford to fail the generations to come.”

Read the Full Statement Here

See the LWVUS Newsroom for current
LWVUS Press Releases

Call to Action:

Oppose the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act. LWVUS, LWVPA, and LWVPGH ask all League members and the public to contact their US Senators and ask them to vote “NO” on the SAVE Act. The US House of Representatives passed this bill on April 10, 2025. Now it is in the Senate for consideration.

The SAVE Act

would require in-person citizenship documentation to register to vote, putting an unfunded burden on all county elections offices
would exclude millions of eligible citizens from registering to vote if they don't have passports, access to their birth certificates, or if those documents do not reflect their name following a name change if their married name does not match their birth certificate name.
would effectively end online voter registration and mail-in voting
would limit voter registration efforts by nonprofits like the LWV
would require military voters, and any other voter who moves, to present documentation every time they re-register to vote due to a move

Accordion Widget

Contact Your US Senators

Senator John Fetterman

Complete this form: https://www.fetterman.senate.gov/contact/

Or call his Pittsburgh office: (412) 803-3501

Senator Dave McCormick:

Complete this form: https://www.mccormick.senate.gov/share-your-opinion/

Or call his Pittsburgh office:412-803-7370

Upcoming Rallies and Events

Join LWVPGH each Monday from 4:30 to 6:00 at the Indivisible rally in Point Breeze. Find more information on the Events calendar.

"Your Government Officials" Directory for 2025

Your Government Officials 2025
Facts for Citizens Directory

"2025 Your Government Officials"

Who are your representatives at the city, county, state and federal levels?
What are their salaries? When do their terms end?

Find Out in the 2025 "Your Government Officials" Directory

The "Your Government Officials" Directory provides contact information for public officials serving Allegheny County residents at the County, State and Federal levels. Information for the City of Pittsburgh, and Pittsburgh Public Schools is also included. In addition to directory information, "Your Government Officials" provides details and dates for participating in the 2025 primary and general (November) elections, descriptions of job roles, and tips for what to say when contacting your representatives in government.

View on our "Your Government Officials" page: www.lwvpgh.org/ygo ,
or download the PDF: Your Government Officials 2025

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THANK YOU to the volunteers on the "Your Government Officials" team!

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