2026 Pennsylvania General Election 

Tarik Khan

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KHAN, Tarik, a Representative from Philadelphia County; born, 1978 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa.; graduated, Central High School, 1996; B.A., Davidson College, 2000; graduate, nursing, Roxborough Memorial Hospital School of Nursing, 2003; M.S., nursing, La Salle University School of Nursing, 2011; Ph.D., The University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, 2022; registered nurse; family nurse practitioner; president, Pennsylvania State Nurses Association; founder and chair, Enabling Minds; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 2023 and 2025 terms.

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Tarik Khan is from Philadelphia. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from Davidson College, completed nursing training at Roxborough Memorial Hospital School of Nursing, earned a Master of Science in nursing from La Salle University School of Nursing, and earned a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing.

Tarik Khan is a registered nurse and family nurse practitioner.

State Rep. Tarik Khan
Tarik has served our community as a nurse for over two decades — and as State Representative, he’s fighting for a Pennsylvania that works for everyone!

First elected in 2022, Tarik is a Democrat representing the 194th District in the Pennsylvania State House.

Tarik Khan for PA

Tarik currently serves as a Pennsylvania state representative for the 194th District. He was first elected in 2022 and is serving his second term after his reelection in 2024.

Passed legislation addressing affordable housing.

Tarik has passed legislation to addresses safe staffing for nurses, affordable housing, medical debt cancellation, and honoring religious diversity. He also helped write several dozen more bills focusing on improving access to quality healthcare, passing common sense gun reform, addressing our climate crisis, and reforming our broken criminal justice system.

Advocates for living wages, lower costs, affordable housing, food assistance, and public-transit funding to create jobs.

State Rep. Tarik Khan represents the Philadelphia neighborhoods of Roxborough, Chestnut Hill, East Falls, Manayunk, Andorra, & Wissahickon.
Tarik is leading efforts in Harrisburg to:

Lower Costs

Fight for Living Wages

Expand Healthcare Access

Defend our Freedoms & Democracy

Make our Community Safer

Make Housing More Affordable

Help Families Put Food on the Table

Fairly Fund our Public Schools

Create Jobs by Funding Public Transit

Economy

Passed legislation addressing safe staffing for nurses and the cancellation of medical debt.

Helped write bills focused on improving access to quality healthcare.

Healthcare

Advocates for fair public-school funding.

Education

As of October 16, 2026, Tarik Khan’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Energy & the Environment

Helped write bills focused on gun reform and criminal-justice reform.

Passed legislation to regulate sports and online gambling to reduce problem gambling, gambling debt, and children's exposure to sports betting.

As State Representative, Tarik has:

9 bills signed into law by Gov. Josh Shapiro

Brought over $60 million back to our community

Passed additional legislation to help:

Regulate Sports & Online Gambling to reduce problem gambling behaviors, gambling debt, and the exposure of children to sports betting

Veterans Exposed to Agent Orange & Other Toxins to examine how to best connect veterans and their families with VA benefits

Public Safety

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- They are elected to two-year terms and have a salary of $106,000, with a 1-3% annual increase

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