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Centered in the Lehigh Valley region, Cook Political Report rated the 7th District race a toss-up. The district covers parts of four eastern Pennsylvania counties: Carbon, Lehigh, Northampton and ...
The vice president of the Lehigh County Republican Party, he had previously lost to O'Connell in the 2019 Allentown mayoral special election, and his brother, Steve, was a member of the "Latinos for Trump" in 2016 and led its Lehigh Valley local chapter. [4]
The 7th district is based in the Lehigh Valley, including all of Lehigh, Northampton, and Carbon counties and a small sliver of Monroe County. [1] It has a PVI of R+2 and voted for Joe Biden by 0.6% in 2020. The incumbent is Democrat Susan Wild, who was re-elected with 51.0% of the vote in 2022. [2]
There was a closer margin in the special election because that election was under the former 15th district, which had been thrown out by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in February 2018. The former 15th had stretched from the Lehigh Valley into heavily Republican territory between Lebanon and Harrisburg, by way of a tendril in Berks County. The ...
Bordering Bucks, Lehigh and Northampton counties geopolitically unite to form the key, postindustrial Lehigh Valley region. The congressional seat currently held by Rep. Susan Wild, a Democrat, is ...
District moved from Philadelphia County to Bucks & Lehigh Counties after 1982, adjusted to Berks & Lehigh after 1992; Paul W. Semmel: Republican: 1983 – 2006: Carl W. Mantz: Republican: 2007 – 2008: Gary Day: Republican: 2009 – 2022: Defeated in primary after 2022 redistricting Ryan Mackenzie: Republican: 2023 – Present: Incumbent
The 7th district is based in the Lehigh Valley, and consists of Lehigh and Northampton counties as well as parts of Monroe County, including the cities of Allentown, Bethlehem, and Easton. The incumbent was Democrat Susan Wild, who flipped the district and was elected with 53.5% of the vote in 2018. [25]
2016 was the first presidential election since 1948 in which the Democratic nominee won the popular vote without the state. Pennsylvania's vote for Donald Trump, along with that of Wisconsin and Michigan , marked the fall of the Democratic Blue Wall , a bloc of over 240 electoral votes that voted solidly Democratic from 1992 to 2012.