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The following is a list of members of the United States House of Representatives from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. For chronological tables of members of both houses of the United States Congress from the state (through the present day), see United States congressional delegations from Pennsylvania. The list has been updated periodically ...
However, only five of the state's 18 federal Representatives (27.78%) were Democrats. [6] On June 14, 2017, the League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania filed a lawsuit, alleging that the district boundaries constituted an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander. [7] The case was eventually appealed to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
The Pennsylvania House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral Pennsylvania General Assembly, the legislature of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. There are 203 members, elected for two-year terms from single member districts. [1] [2] It is the largest full-time state legislature in the country.
Thomas Scott (PA) Peter Muhlenberg (AA) Thomas Hartley (PA) Henry Wynkoop (PA) Congress 1st district 2nd district 3rd district 4th district 5th district 6th district 7th district 8th district; 2nd (1791–1793) Thomas Fitzsimmons (PA) Frederick Muhlenberg (AA) Israel Jacobs (PA) Daniel Hiester (AA) John W. Kittera (PA) Andrew Gregg (AA) Thomas ...
Pennsylvania's 14th congressional district is located in the southwestern part of the state and includes all of Fayette County, Greene County, and Washington County, and most of Indiana, Westmoreland, and Somerset counties.
Representative Party Years Cong ress Electoral history Joseph R. Ingersoll (Philadelphia) Whig: March 4, 1843 – March 3, 1849 28th 29th 30th: Re-elected in 1843. Re-elected in 1844. Re-elected in 1846. Declined to accept renomination. Joseph R. Chandler (Philadelphia) Whig: March 4, 1849 – March 3, 1855 31st 32nd 33rd: Elected in 1848. Re ...
Pennsylvania's 9th congressional district is located in the east central part of the state and encompasses all of Bradford, Columbia, Lebanon, Montour, Northumberland, Schuylkill, Sullivan, Susquehanna, and Wyoming counties, as well as parts of Berks, Luzerne, and Lycoming counties.
Prior to the court-ordered redistricting, the 6th district's incarnation dated back to 2002. Its strange shape brought charges of gerrymandering by Democrats who argued it "looms like a dragon descending on Philadelphia from the west, splitting up towns and communities throughout Montgomery and Berks Counties."