Pennsylvania Senate, District 15
Pennsylvania's 15th State Senate district | |||
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Senator |
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Population (2021) | 260,164 |
Pennsylvania State Senate District 15 includes part of Dauphin County. It is currently represented by Republican John DiSanto.
District profile
The district includes the following areas:[1]
- Conewago Township
- Dauphin
- Derry Township
- East Hanover Township
- Harrisburg
- Highspire
- Hummelstown
- Londonderry Township
- Lower Paxton Township
- Lower Swatara Township
- Middle Paxton Township
- Middletown
- Paxtang
- Penbrook
- Royalton
- South Hanover Township
- Steelton
- Susquehanna Township
- Swatara Township
- West Hanover Township
Senators
Representative[2] | Party | Years | District home | Note |
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James Poe | Democratic-Republican | 1803 – 1818 | ||
Robert Smith | Democratic-Republican | 1819 – 1822 | ||
John Rea | Democratic-Republican | 1823 – 1824 | ||
James Dunlop | Federalist | 1823 – 1826 | ||
David Fullerton | Anti-Masonic | 1827 – 1838 | U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 5th district from 1819 to 1820. Pennsylvania State Senator for the 14th district from 1839 to 1840[3] | |
Samuel M. Barclay | National Republican | 1837 – 1840 | ||
George Shannon Mullin, Sr. | Whig | 1841 – 1842 | Pennsylvania State Senator for the 19th district from 1843 to 1844[4] | |
Henry C. Eyer | Democratic | 1845 – 1846 | Pennsylvania State Senator for the 8th district from 1843 to 1844[5] | |
Jacob Wagenseller | Whig | 1845 – 1848 | ||
Jonathan J. Cunningham | Whig | 1849 – 1850 | ||
Robert Allison McMurtrie | Whig | 1851 – 1852 | ||
Ner Middleswarth | Whig | 1853 – 1854 | Pennsylvania State Representative from 1815 to 1841. U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 10th congressional district from 1853 to 1855[6] | |
John Creswell, Jr. | Democratic | 1853 – 1858 | Pennsylvania State Senator for the 20th district from 1859 to 1860[7] | |
John Brisban Rutherford | Republican | 1857 – 1860 | ||
Amos R. Boughter | Republican | 1861 – 1864 | ||
David Fleming | Republican | 1863 – 1864 | Pennsylvania State Senator for the 16th district from 1865 to 1866[8] | |
David B. Montgomery | Democratic | 1865 – 1866 | Pennsylvania State Senator for the 13th district from 1863 to 1864[9] | |
George Duggan Jackson | Democratic | 1867 – 1868 | Pennsylvania State Senator for the 24th district from 1879 to 1880[10] | |
Thomas Chalfant | Democratic | 1873 – 1874 | ||
Andrew Jackson Herr | Republican | 1875 – 1880 | ||
Alexander F. Thompson | Republican | 1885 – 1892 | ||
Samuel John Milton McCarrell | Republican | 1893 – 1900 | ||
John E. Fox | Republican | 1901 – 1912 | ||
Edward Ensinger Beidleman | Republican | 1913 – 1918 | Pennsylvania State Representative for Dauphin County from 1905 to 1908. 12th Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania from 1919 to 1923[11] | |
Frank A. Smith | Republican | 1919 – 1924 | ||
William H. Earnest | Republican | 1925 – 1932 | ||
George Leffingwell Reed | Republican | 1933 – 1936 | ||
George Kunkel | Democratic | 1937 – 1940 | ||
M. Harvey Taylor | Republican | 1941 – 1964 | ||
William B. Lentz | Republican | 1965 – 1976 | ||
George W. Gekas | Republican | 1977 – 1982 | U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 17th congressional district from 1983 to 2003[12] | |
John J. Shumaker | Republican | 1983 – 1995 | Seated April 11, 1983, to fill vacancy.[13] Resigned August 31, 1995[14] | |
Jeffrey E. Piccola | Republican | 1995 – 2012 | Pennsylvania State Representative for the 104th district from 1977 to 1995.[15] | |
Rob Teplitz | Democratic | 2013 – 2017 | Susquehanna Township | |
John DiSanto | Republican | 2017 – present |
Recent election results
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | John DiSanto (incumbent) | 70,041 | 51.7 | |
Democratic | George Scott | 65,366 | 48.3 | |
Total votes | 135,407 | 100.0 | ||
Republican hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | John DiSanto | 62,774 | 51.7 | |
Democratic | Rob Teplitz (incumbent) | 58,591 | 48.3 | |
Total votes | 121,365 | 100.0 | ||
Republican gain from Democratic |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Rob Teplitz | 61,139 | 51.5 | |
Republican | John McNally | 57,504 | 48.5 | |
Total votes | 118,643 | 100.0 | ||
Democratic gain from Republican |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Jeffrey Piccola (incumbent) | 63,829 | 52.0 | |
Democratic | Judy Hirsch | 59,014 | 48.0 | |
Total votes | 122,843 | 100.0 | ||
Republican hold |
References
- ^ "2021 Final Reapportionment Plan" (PDF). Pennsylvania Department of State. Retrieved November 11, 2022.
- ^ "Pennsylvania State Senate - Senate Historical Biographies". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved June 16, 2019.
- ^ "Pennsylvania Senate - David Fullerton Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved June 15, 2019.
- ^ "George Shannon Mullin, Sr". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved July 4, 2019.
- ^ "Pennsylvania State Senate - Henry C Eyer Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved July 4, 2019.
- ^ "Ner B Middleswarth". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved July 4, 2019.
- ^ "John Creswell, Jr". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved July 4, 2019.
- ^ "David Fleming". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved July 4, 2019.
- ^ "David B Montgomery". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved July 4, 2019.
- ^ "Pennsylvania Senate - George Duggan Jackson Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved June 16, 2019.
- ^ "Pennsylvania Senate - Edward Ensinger Beidleman Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved July 2, 2019.
- ^ "GEKAS, George William, (1930 - )". www.bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved October 6, 2019.
- ^ Cox, Harold (2004). "Pennsylvania Senate - 1983-1984" (PDF). Wilkes University Election Statistics Project. Wilkes University.
- ^ Cox, Harold (2004). "Pennsylvania Senate - 1995-1996" (PDF). Wilkes University Election Statistics Project. Wilkes University.
- ^ "Pennsylvania House of Representatives - JEFFREY E. PICCOLA Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved June 21, 2019.
- Cox, Harold (2004). "Legislatures - 1776-2004". Wilkes University Election Statistics Project. Wilkes University.