Voters in six of the seven Pennsylvania House of Representatives districts in the Times News coverage area will have choices to make in the General Election of 2024.

Voting will take place from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 5.

Rep. Doyle Heffley is one of seven regional Republicans running for reelection and has no opposition in the 122nd District balloting.

A resident of Lower Towamensing Township, he is seeking his seventh two-year term of office, having initially been elected in the general election of 2010, then succeeding Democratic Speaker of the House Keith R. McCall of Summit Hill, in serving the district, which includes all of Carbon County.

In the other districts, there are contested races, including:

124th District

Rep. Jamie Barton of East Brunswick Township, a Republican, will face a familiar opponent in November as Democrat Tina M. Burns of Tamaqua is challenging him again. In 2022, Barton defeated her by a margin of 18,228 to 8,366 to win his first two-year term and the seat previously held by Rep. Jerry Knowles before his retirement.

Before being elected to office, Barton was an energy executive. Burns is a U.S. Coast Guard veteran whose career experience includes working as a health care consultant.

The district includes parts of Berks County, including the townships of Albany, Greenwich, Maxatawny, Tilden, Upper Bern, Upper Tulpehocken and Windsor, and the boroughs of Hamburg, Kutztown and Lenhartsville, and parts of Schuylkill County, including the townships of Delano, East Brunswick, Rush, Ryan, Schuylkill, South Manheim, Walker, West Brunswick and West Penn, and the boroughs of Auburn, Coaldale, Deer Lake, Landingville, New Ringgold, Orwigsburg, Port Clinton and Tamaqua.

176th District

Republican Rep. Jack Rader of Jackson Township has represented the Monroe County district since 2015, and his November opponent is the same one of two whom he faced in 2022. In that election, Rader defeated Democrat Hope Christman and Libertarian Autumn Pangia, tallying 14,036 votes, compared with 9,024 for Christman and 1,237 for Pangia.

Christman, a hospice social worker, is running again and is unopposed on the Democratic ballot.

The district includes parts of Monroe County, including the townships of Chestnuthill, Eldred, Hamilton, Jackson, Polk, Ross, Tobyhanna and Tunkhannock.

183rd District

Rep. Zach Mako of Lehigh Township, also a Republican, was unopposed in 2022 and received 21,730 complimentary votes from district voters. In April, he defeated a Republican challenger, Zachari R. Halkais of Slatington, setting up a race in November with Democrat Joseph W. Lenzi of Northampton.

Mako is aspiring to win his fourth two-year term, having served the district since winning the general election of 2016.

Lenzi is a salesman.

The district includes parts of Lehigh County, including the townships of Lowhill and North Whitehall and the Borough of Slatington, and parts of Northampton County, including the townships of Allen, East Allen, Lehigh and Moore (part, Beersville and Klecknersville districts), and the boroughs of Bath, North Catasauqua, Northampton and Walnutport.

187th District

In 2022, after redistricting put them in the same district, Republicans Ryan Mackenzie and Gary W. Day of Heidelberg Township ended up running against each because redistricting put Mackenzie in the 187th District, as opposed to the 134th District he had been representing. Mackenzie won the nomination, defeating Day by a margin of 5,625 to 3,548, and was unopposed in the general election, garnering 22,990 token votes to win the seat.

He’s now seeking the congressional seat held by Rep. Susan Wild, and so Day is once again a candidate. He will face Democrat Stefanie Rafes of Lower Macungie Township in November.

Before his life in public office, Day was the director of marketing and human resources for Service Electric Cablevision and the executive assistant to the Allentown mayor. Rafes is a physician assistant.

The district includes parts of Lehigh County, including the townships of Heidelberg, Lower Macungie, Lynn, Upper Macungie (part, Districts 3, 7 and 8), Washington and Weisenberg, and the boroughs of Alburtis and Macungie.

116th District

A race in the 116th District sees the incumbent, Republican Dane Watro of Kline Township, facing Democratic challenger Deborah L. Adoff of East Union Township.

Watro, a U.S. Army veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom and the former mayor of McAdoo Borough, defeated Democrat Yesenia Rodriguez in 2022 by a margin of 9,811 to 4,571 to win his first two-year term of office. Adoff is a retired court stenographer.

The district includes parts of Luzerne County, including the City of Hazleton, Hazle Township and the Borough of West Hazleton, and parts of Schuylkill County, including the townships of East Union, Kline, Mahanoy, North Union and Union, and the boroughs of Mahanoy City, McAdoo, Ringtown and Shenandoah.

123rd District

Rep. Tim Twardzik of Butler Township, who first won a seat in the House in the 2020 election, will face Democrat Michael Zvalaren III of Wayne Township in November.

In 2022, Twardzik defeated Democrat Kathleen Laughlin Benyak by a margin of 17,133 to 7,909.

Before his first election victory, Twardzik retired as the executive vice president and co-owner of Ateeco Inc. — Mrs. T’s Pierogies, Shenandoah, where he helped grow the business founded by his father, Ted, into the community’s leading employer. Zvalaren is an adjunct professor at the College of New Jersey, and is a kitchen designer.

The district includes parts of Schuylkill County, including the City of Pottsville, the townships of Blythe, Branch, Butler, Cass, East Norwegian, New Castle, North Manheim, Norwegian, Wayne and West Mahanoy, and the boroughs of Ashland (Schuylkill County portion), Cressona, Frackville, Gilberton, Girardville, Gordon, Mechanicsville, Middleport, Minersville, Mount Carbon, New Philadelphia, Palo Alto, Port Carbon, Schuylkill Haven and Saint Clair.