Pennsylvania Senate District 6: Farry (R) v. Hartnett Albillar (D)

Number	What it is	Source
Republican +5.5	2024 presidential margin of Donald Trump (R) in the district	Hesitation Media analysis of precinct returns
Republican +8.0	2022 margin of Farry (R) over Ann Marie Mitchell (D)	Pennsylvania Department of State
Democrat +17.1	2022 margin of Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) in the district	Hesitation Media analysis of precinct returns
14	Bucks County municipalities in the district	Pennsylvania Department of State

Sen. Frank Farry (R) won the 6th District in 2022 by 8 points on the same ballot that gave Josh Shapiro (D), running for governor, a 17-point margin there. Donald Trump (R) carried the district by 5.5 points in the 2024 presidential race.

The district lies entirely in Bucks County. It is one of four Republican-held seats Democrats are targeting; they need three of the four, and their own seats, for a Senate majority.

The candidates

Farry, 53, is chief of the Langhorne-Middletown fire company and has been a volunteer firefighter for more than 30 years, according to WHYY. He won the 142nd House District in 2008 and held it until he moved to the Senate in 2022.

Eileen Hartnett Albillar (D) is 52 and has been Bucks County’s clerk of courts since January 2024. She was a Warrington Township supervisor from 2018 to 2023 and is a licensed social worker, WHYY reported.

The district

The 14 municipalities run from Bensalem on the Philadelphia line through Middletown, Lower and Upper Southampton, Northampton, Warminster and Warrington to Warwick and Wrightstown, plus the boroughs of Langhorne, Langhorne Manor, Penndel, Hulmeville and Ivyland.

Money and issues

Spotlight PA reported that both parties’ Senate committees backed their candidates here, though the report does not give a figure for this race. Statewide, the Senate Democratic committee spent $12 million from June 8 to Oct. 19 and the Republican committee nearly $10 million.

Hartnett Albillar’s “data senator” ad tied Farry to his law firm’s client NorthPoint, the developer of a Falls Township site where Amazon plans a data center, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. Farry’s lawyer sent an eight-page cease-and-desist letter, and her campaign kept the ad up.

WHYY’s voter guide lists Farry’s issues as affordability, open primaries, SEPTA funding, the minimum wage and school funding, describes his part in bipartisan opposition to PECO rate increases and names the AFL-CIO and the teachers’ union, PSEA, as his endorsers.

The guide lists Hartnett Albillar’s issues as the minimum wage, school funding, SEPTA and energy costs, and her endorsers as the American Federation of Teachers and EMILY’s List.

The 2022 split

In 2022 the gap between Shapiro’s margin in the governor’s race and Farry’s was 25 points, the widest of the four Republican targets. John Fetterman (D) carried the district by 3.1 points in the 2022 U.S. Senate race. District results are on the Pennsylvania legislature results page, and the method and sources are under How we did this.

How we did this

Margins are Democrat minus Republican, in points.

The 2024 presidential, 2024 U.S. Senate, 2022 governor and 2022 U.S. Senate margins are Hesitation Media’s sums of MIT Election Data and Science Lab precinct returns, with each precinct assigned to the Senate district it voted in for the 2022 State Senate race.

An advocacy page for Hartnett Albillar reports Kamala Harris carrying the district in 2024. Hesitation Media’s sum of the MIT Election Data and Science Lab precinct returns has Trump ahead by 8,988 votes, 85,573 to 76,585.

Passage	Figures	Source
Margins (chart, key numbers, body)	gov. D+17.08; U.S. Senate 2022 D+3.07; pres. R+5.49; U.S. Senate 2024 R+4.14	MIT Election Data and Science Lab precinct returns, 2022 and 2024; Hesitation Media’s sums, swingdesk/pa_districts.py
2022 result	Farry 67,395, Mitchell 57,218, Bentrim (L) 1,961	Pennsylvania Department of State, https://www.electionreturns.pa.gov/
Candidates’ backgrounds, issues, endorsements		WHYY voter guide, Sept. 4, 2026, https://whyy.org/articles/election-2026-pennsylvania-senate-sixth-district-voter-guide/
Ad and cease-and-desist letter		The Philadelphia Inquirer, Sept. 25, 2026, https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/frank-farry-eileen-hartnett-albillar-bucks-county-campaign-ad-cease-and-desist-20260925.html
Advocacy page with a Harris margin		States Win, candidate page for Hartnett Albillar, https://stateswin.org/?p=64976
Committee spending	$12 million; nearly $10 million	Spotlight PA, Oct. 30, 2026, https://www.spotlightpa.org/news/2026/10/campaign-finance-pennsylvania-legislature-2026-election-transparency-elections/
Municipalities	14	Pennsylvania Department of State, 2022 Pennsylvania Senate Districts, https://www.pa.gov/agencies/vote/resources/redistricting/pennsylvania-redistricting-state-senate