Malcolm Kenyatta
Malcolm Kenyatta (Democratic Party) is a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, representing District 181. He assumed office on December 1, 2018. His current term ends on November 30, 2024.
Kenyatta (Democratic Party) is running for re-election to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to represent District 181. He is on the ballot in the general election on November 5, 2024. He advanced from the Democratic primary on April 23, 2024.
Kenyatta is also running for election for Pennsylvania Auditor General. He is on the ballot in the general election on November 5, 2024. He advanced from the Democratic primary on April 23, 2024.
Biography
Kenyatta was born in Philadelphia, PA. He earned his bachelor's degree in public communications with a minor in political science from Temple University. In 2019, he completed public policy training at Harvard's Kennedy School. His career experience includes serving as a coordinator at the Graduate Medical Education Department at Hahnemann University Hospital and as the diversity and inclusion engagement coordinator for the Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia.[1]
Sponsored legislation
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Elections
2024
Auditor general
See also: Pennsylvania Auditor election, 2024
General election
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General election for Pennsylvania Auditor General
Incumbent Timothy DeFoor, Malcolm Kenyatta, Eric Anton, Alan Goodrich, and Reece Smith are running in the general election for Pennsylvania Auditor General on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | ||
 | Timothy DeFoor (R) | |
 | Malcolm Kenyatta (D) | |
 | Eric Anton (American Solidarity Party) | |
| Alan Goodrich (Constitution Party) | |
 | Reece Smith (L)  | |
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Pennsylvania Auditor General
Malcolm Kenyatta defeated Mark Pinsley in the Democratic primary for Pennsylvania Auditor General on April 23, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Malcolm Kenyatta | 64.2 | 655,687 |
 | Mark Pinsley | 35.3 | 360,182 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.5 | 5,278 | ||
| Total votes: 1,021,147 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Pennsylvania Auditor General
Incumbent Timothy DeFoor advanced from the Republican primary for Pennsylvania Auditor General on April 23, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Timothy DeFoor | 99.3 | 844,742 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.7 | 5,600 | ||
| Total votes: 850,342 | |||
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Campaign finance
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State house
See also: Pennsylvania House of Representatives elections, 2024
General election
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General election for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 181
Incumbent Malcolm Kenyatta is running in the general election for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 181 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | ||
| Malcolm Kenyatta (D) | |
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 181
Incumbent Malcolm Kenyatta defeated Lewis Nash Sr. and Naderah Griffin in the Democratic primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 181 on April 23, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Malcolm Kenyatta | 73.6 | 3,837 |
| Lewis Nash Sr. | 16.7 | 870 | |
| Naderah Griffin | 9.0 | 469 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.7 | 35 | ||
| Total votes: 5,211 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Jon Hankins (D)
Campaign finance
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2022
U.S. senate
See also: United States Senate election in Pennsylvania, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. Senate Pennsylvania
The following candidates ran in the general election for U.S. Senate Pennsylvania on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | John Fetterman (D) | 51.2 | 2,751,012 |
 | Mehmet Oz (R) | 46.3 | 2,487,260 | |
 | Erik Chase Gerhardt (L) | 1.4 | 72,887 | |
 | Richard Weiss (G) | 0.6 | 30,434 | |
 | Daniel Wassmer (Keystone Party of Pennsylvania) | 0.5 | 26,428 | |
 | Quincy Magee (Independent) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 0 | |
 | Ronald Johnson (Constitution Party) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 0 | |
| Total votes: 5,368,021 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Everett Stern (Independent)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Pennsylvania
John Fetterman defeated Conor Lamb, Malcolm Kenyatta, and Alexandria Khalil in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Pennsylvania on May 17, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | John Fetterman | 58.6 | 753,557 |
 | Conor Lamb | 26.3 | 337,498 | |
| Malcolm Kenyatta | 10.8 | 139,393 | |
 | Alexandria Khalil | 4.2 | 54,460 | |
| Total votes: 1,284,908 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Walter Sluzynsky (D)
- John McGuigan (D)
- Kyle Norton (D)
- Alan Shank (D)
- Larry Johnson (D)
- Kevin Baumlin (D)
- Sharif Street (D)
- Valerie Arkoosh (D)
- Lew Tapera (D)
- Eric Orts (D)
- Kael Dougherty (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. Senate Pennsylvania
The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate Pennsylvania on May 17, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Mehmet Oz | 31.2 | 420,168 |
 | David McCormick | 31.1 | 419,218 | |
 | Kathy Barnette | 24.7 | 331,903 | |
 | Carla Sands | 5.4 | 73,360 | |
 | Jeff Bartos | 5.0 | 66,684 | |
 | Sean Gale | 1.5 | 20,266 | |
 | George Bochetto | 1.1 | 14,492 | |
| Total votes: 1,346,091 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- John Debellis (R)
- Max Richardson (R)
- John Eichenberg (R)
- Vince Fusca (R)
- Martin Rosenfeld (R)
- Bobby Jeffries (R)
- Richard Mulholland (R)
- Sean Parnell (R)
- Ronald Johnson (R)
- Craig Snyder (R)
- David Xu (R)
after 2022 elections
Campaign finance
Pennsylvania house of representatives
See also: Pennsylvania House of Representatives elections, 2022
General election
General election for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 181
Incumbent Malcolm Kenyatta won election in the general election for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 181 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Malcolm Kenyatta (D) | 100.0 | 15,426 |
| Total votes: 15,426 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 181
Incumbent Malcolm Kenyatta advanced from the Democratic primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 181 on May 17, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Malcolm Kenyatta | 100.0 | 5,737 |
| Total votes: 5,737 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
Campaign finance
2020
See also: Pennsylvania House of Representatives elections, 2020
General election
General election for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 181
Incumbent Malcolm Kenyatta won election in the general election for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 181 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Malcolm Kenyatta (D) | 100.0 | 25,258 |
| Total votes: 25,258 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 181
Incumbent Malcolm Kenyatta advanced from the Democratic primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 181 on June 2, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Malcolm Kenyatta | 100.0 | 10,377 |
| Total votes: 10,377 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Charlotte Greer (D)
Campaign finance
2018
General election
General election for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 181
Malcolm Kenyatta defeated Milton Street in the general election for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 181 on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Malcolm Kenyatta (D) | 95.3 | 21,382 |
| Milton Street (R) | 4.7 | 1,050 | |
| Total votes: 22,432 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 181
Malcolm Kenyatta defeated Lewis Nash Sr., Lewis Thomas III, Jason Deering, and Gilberto Gonzalez in the Democratic primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 181 on May 15, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Malcolm Kenyatta | 42.1 | 2,270 |
| Lewis Nash Sr. | 26.6 | 1,435 | |
| Lewis Thomas III | 17.7 | 956 | |
| Jason Deering | 7.8 | 422 | |
 | Gilberto Gonzalez | 5.6 | 304 | |
| Total votes: 5,387 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 181
Milton Street advanced from the Republican primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 181 on May 15, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Milton Street | 100.0 | 94 |
| Total votes: 94 | |||
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Campaign themes
2024
Auditor general
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Campaign website
Kenyatta’s campaign website stated the following:
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I’ve traveled all across this commonwealth and I’ve met so many families just like my own. Good people, who work their butts off and still the basic bargain of a good school, a good job, and a safe community is out of reach. I know it all too well. We deserve a government that works for working families. That starts with being serious about fixing what’s broken. And it means having an Auditor General who isn’t afraid to stand up for those too often forgotten by our government. I’m running for Auditor General because it’s time for the underdog to be a watchdog for Pennsylvania’s working families. To ask the tough questions, to help reimagine and streamline government, and to help build the coalitions to fix what’s wrong. It’s what I’ve done as a State Representative for nearly five years, working to protect workers' rights, enact common-sense gun safety policies, and root out government corruption and waste. I’ve had multiple legislative leadership roles: as a member of the powerful State Government Committee with oversight on state agencies and elections, minority Chair of the Subcommittee on Campaign Finance and Elections, minority Chair of Automation and Technology in the Committee on Commerce, and a member of the Finance Committee. As Auditor General, I will rebuild the Bureau of School Audits, restart the annual compliance audits ended by the current Auditor General, and demand accountability from all our schools — including cyber charter schools. As Auditor General, I will stand up for our workers by creating the first ever Bureau of Labor and Worker Protections and use the power of the office to take on wage theft, employee misclassification, and union busting. Every worker deserves a decent wage and the right to unionize. I’ll also protect pension funds by ensuring they are properly funded and managed. As Auditor General, I will use the office to measure and support efforts to make communities healthier and safer. We need transparency on how huge hospital nonprofits and long term care providers use state dollars. We need to analyze our approach to community safety and gun violence reduction to target investments in the things that really work to reduce crime, particularly gun crimes. Folks in every corner of Pennsylvania have welcomed me into their neighborhoods, their homes and their faith communities. They’ve told me their stories and I’ve shared my own. In those conversations we’ve talked about Pennsylvania’s problems, but also its promise. Young people born today will live into the next century. What we do now and how we do it will determine the inheritance we leave.[2] |
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| —Malcolm Kenyatta’s campaign website (2024)[3] | ||
State house
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2022
U.S. senate
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Pennsylvania house of representatives
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2020
Malcolm Kenyatta completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Kenyatta's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I'm North Philly through-and-through. I grew up here and never left. I believe that North Philly's best days are ahead. We can make a difference and together we can unleash the possibilities for a better North Philly.
- Poverty is not only a public health crisis, it is the moral issue of our time.
- Everyone has the right to love whomever they choose. We must always pushback against hate and bigotry in our fight for equal rights in the LGBTQ communities across our state.
- Our children deserve a school system that is equitable. Not only are a large number of our students in the Commonwealth attending schools without the necessary materials and resources to succeed, but many also are not safe from the violence and bullying that can have devastating consequences.
Mental healthcare for our children, criminal justice reform, preventing gun violence, environmental justice, access to affordable healthcare, and ending intergenerational poverty.
Integrity and accountability.
To give a voice and fight for those that might not have one and to lift those on the margins.
To have done the work that uplifts my home community and others like it.
Passing the Equality Act and ensuring schooling is equitable across the entire state.
Absolutely. While I represent my district, bills I support affect all Pennsylvanians. I think it is critical we come together and represent all without leaving anyone behind.
Ernie Chambers, State Senator in Nebraska, shared a sentiment on governing that resonates with me every day as a legislator. "We can not forget about the least, the lost and the left behind."
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Committee assignments
2023-2024
Kenyatta was assigned to the following committees:
- Commerce Committee, Subcommittee Chair on Financial Services and Banking
- House Finance Committee
- Liquor Control Committee
- House State Government Committee, Subcommittee Chair on Government Operations
2021-2022
Kenyatta was assigned to the following committees:
- Liquor Control Committee
- House State Government Committee
- Commerce Committee
- House Finance Committee
2019-2020
Kenyatta was assigned to the following committees:
- Commerce Committee, Subcommittee Chair on Automation and Technology
- Liquor Control Committee, Subcommittee Chair on Licensing
- House State Government Committee, Secretary
- Tourism & Recreational Development Committee, Subcommittee Chair on Travel Promotion, History and Heritage
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2023
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on May 19, 2020.
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Malcolm Kenyatta for Auditor General, “Why Auditor General,” accessed March 9, 2024
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