Congressional district · Boundaries of the 119th Congress
Pennsylvania's 8th district
Pennsylvania's 8th district has 766,649 residents on 2,769 mi² of land. It is represented by Robert P. Bresnahan, Jr. (R-PA-8). Federal contract obligations attributed to it reached $830.2M in FY2026.
- Residents
- 766,649
- Land area
- 2,769 mi²
- Counties
- 5
- Representative
- Robert P. Bresnahan, Jr.
Members for this district
Members who held this seat while these boundaries were in force, newest first.
Senators
The state's senators today, or on the last day of these boundaries for an older plan.
David McCormickR-PA
John FettermanD-PA
Counties
Share of the district's residents living in each county, and share of the county's residents living in the district (2020 census tracts weighted by their overlap).
- Luzerne County37% of the district · 87% of the county
- Lackawanna County28% of the district · 100% of the county
- Monroe County20% of the district · 92% of the county
- Pike County7.9% of the district · 100% of the county
- Wayne County6.7% of the district · 100% of the county
Federal contracts
Contract obligations attributed to the district by each action's county and its award's ZIP code (land shares through census tracts); an estimate where ZIP codes cross district lines.
- Obligations · FY2026
- $830.2M
- Per resident
- $1,083
- Rank in Pennsylvania
- 5 of 17
- Contract actions
- 10K
- New awards: 9,093
By fiscal year
- 990.8MFY2017
- 856.2MFY2018
- 629.4MFY2019
- 594.5MFY2020
- 657.1MFY2021
- 602.9MFY2022
- 1.3BFY2023
- 1.1BFY2024
- 1.1BFY2025
- 830.2MFY2026
Top buyers
- Department of the Army$627.6M76%Department of Defense
- Department of Veterans Affairs$54.5M6.6%
- Defense Logistics Agency$39.6M4.8%Department of Defense
- Department of the Navy$33M4.0%Department of Defense
- Department of Labor
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Department of the Air Force$14.5M1.7%Department of Defense
- Federal Acquisition Service$6.9M0.8%General Services Administration
Top recipients
- GENERAL DYNAMICS OTS (WILKES BARRE), LLC$536.9M65%28 awards
- GENTEX CORPORATION$41.3M5.0%176 awards
- SANOFI VACCINES US INC.$29.8M3.6%129 awards
- NAMMO POCAL INC$25.9M3.1%8 awards
- LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP$24.5M3.0%31 awards
- FDCD II JOINT VENTURE, LLC$22.3M2.7%2 awards
- ADAMS AND ASSOCIATES INC$20M2.4%1 award
- TRUESTONE, LLC$20M2.4%1 award
- WGL ENERGY SERVICES, INC.$7M0.8%3 awards
- 73 awards
Other boundaries
District lines change between plans; each plan keeps its own page.
Sources and method
Every figure on this page traces to these records.
- Congressional district boundaries and relationship files (U.S. Census Bureau)U.S. Census Bureau, Cartographic Boundary Files (congressional districts) and 2020 relationship files · release cd116+cd118+cd119 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
- Members of Congress, their terms, committees and identifiers (The @unitedstates project (from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, the House and the Senate))unitedstates/congress-legislators: legislators, committees and current committee membership · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
- ZIP code (ZCTA) to congressional district crosswalk (U.S. Census Bureau)U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 relationship files (ZCTAs, tracts and congressional districts); shares computed by Analisa · release 2020 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
- Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov)USAspending.gov, prime award contract transactions (FPDS) · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
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