---
type: Person
title: "Jay Costa"
description: "PA Senate District 43 — PA State Senate District 43"
role: "PA Senate District 43"
party: "D"
level: "state"
branch: "legislative"
state: "PA"
district: "PA State Senate District 43"
represents: "us/states/pa/districts/senate/43"
tenure:
  start: "1996-05-13"
  current: true
election:
  term_length: 2
  term_limit: "varies"
ids:
  person: "f73f1918-987e-4da7-8467-8665d64f855e"
  office: "33e983b2-9d85-4cf5-812e-520a61239239"
  tenure: "54668c81-862b-4e5d-adb1-ee2e27e5e5fc"
  jurisdiction: "98a8038e-5078-40e9-94f2-7c55e1d733ee"
sources:
  - field: tenure
    source: "OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20"
  - field: jurisdiction
    source: "SLDU (Census 2025)"
confidence: official
tags: [officeholder, state, legislative, pa]
timestamp: "2026-07-04"
---

# Jay Costa

Current PA Senate District 43 (PA State Senate District 43).

Represents [PA State Senate District 43](/us/states/pa/districts/senate/43.md).

## Sources

- tenure: OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20
- jurisdiction: SLDU (Census 2025)

Generated from the Atlas officeholders v3 export (2026-07-04).