The Green Papers: Off Year Election 2001

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Special Election House CD 9: Tuesday, May 15, 2001
Governor:1(Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms)
Senators:2(Electoral Classes 1 and 3)
2000 Representatives:21(4.83% of 435)
2002 Representatives:19(4.37% of 435)
1990 Census: 11,882,842(4.78% of 248,765,170)
2000 Census: 12,300,670(4.36% of 281,998,273)
Registered Voters (Nov 98): 6,966,461
Estimated Voting age population (Jan 98): 9,118,000 
Tuesday, November 6, 2001 Polls Close: 8 PM EST (0100 UTC)
Candidates seeking office
Democrat:1
Green:1
Republican:1
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Governor  Term limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms, Current Governors  
 Republican  Governor Mark Schweiker
Assumed office: 2001
Chair up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002.

5 October 2001: Lieutenant Governor Mark Schweiker is sworn in as Governor upon the resignation of Governor Tom Ridge.

(The current Governor is NOT affected by this state's term limit).
 CandidateDemocrat  (pending)
27 November 2001: former Philadelphia Mayor Edward G. Rendell has entered the race for Governor in 2002. Mr. Rendell has served as general chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
 

5 October 2001: Governor Tom Ridge has resigned his Governor's chair to serve as Director of the newly created 'Office of Homeland Security' in the Bush Administration. Governor Ridge was first elected in 1994 and re-elected in 1998. He would not have been able to run for re-election in 2002 because of Pennsylvania's term limits.

Senate  6-year term, Current Senate  Senate Electoral Classes
Class 1Republican  Senator Rick Santorum
First elected: 1994; re-elected 2000
Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 7, 2006.
Class 3Republican  Senator Arlen Specter
First elected: 1980; re-elected: 1986, 1992, 1998
Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 2, 2004.
House of Representatives  2 year term, Current House  
Partisan Composition: 10 Democrats, 11 Republicans
CD 1Democrat  Congressman Robert A. Brady
Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002.
CD 2Democrat  Congressman Chaka Fattah
Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002.
CD 3Democrat  Congressman Robert A. Borski
Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002.
CD 4Republican  Congressman Melissa Hart
Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002.
CD 5Republican  Congressman John E. Peterson
Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002.
CD 6Democrat  Congressman Tim Holden
Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002.
CD 7Republican  Congressman Curt Weldon
Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002.
CD 8Republican  Congressman Jim Greenwood
Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002.
CD 9Republican  Congressman Bill Shuster
Elected 15 May 2001
Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002.
 CandidateDemocrat  H. Scott Conklin
 CandidateGreen  Alanna K. Hartzok
 CandidateReform  (John Kensinger - pending)
 WinnerRepublican  Bill Shuster
Bill Shuster, the son of retired Congressman Bud Shuster, was elected to this seat in a Special Election on 15 May 2001 and sworn 17 May 2001.
 

Thursday 04 January 2001: Representative Bud Shuster, citing health reasons, announced that after serving 14 terms, he will retire on 31 January 2001. (In 2000, the Congressman was cited by the House ethics committee for accepting gifts and favoring a lobbyist).

CD 10Republican  Congressman Don Sherwood
Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002.
CD 11Democrat  Congressman Paul E. Kanjorski
Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002.
CD 12Democrat  Congressman John P. Murtha
Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002.
CD 13Democrat  Congressman Joseph M. Hoeffel
Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002.
CD 14Democrat  Congressman William J. Coyne
Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002.
 3 August 2001: Rep. Bill Coyne, 64, announced that he would retire and will not seek re-election in November 2002. Congressman Coyne has held this seat since 1980. The 2002 redistricting process is likely to combine Congressman Conyne's and Congressman Mike Doyle's districts into a single district encompassing Pittsburgh (and suburbs to the south and east) in western Pennsylvania.
CD 15Republican  Congressman Pat Toomey
Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002.
CD 16Republican  Congressman Joseph R. Pitts
Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002.
CD 17Republican  Congressman George W. Gekas
Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002.
CD 18Democrat  Congressman Mike Doyle
Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002.
CD 19Republican  Congressman Todd Platts
Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002.
CD 20Democrat  Congressman Frank Mascara
Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002.
CD 21Republican  Congressman Phil English
Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002.
Congressional District

Pennsylvania has 67 counties and 21 congressional districts: 48 counties are wholly within a given congressional district; 19 counties are divided among more than one congressional district.

UNDIVIDED COUNTIES (wholly within one Congressional District)

  • CD # 4: Beaver, Lawrence
  • CD # 5: Cameron, Clinton, Elk, Forest, Jefferson, McKean, Potter, Tioga, Union, Venango and Warren
  • CD # 6: Berks and Schuylkill
  • CD # 8: Bucks
  • CD # 9: Bedford, Blair, Franklin, Fulton, Huntingdon, Juniata, Mifflin and Snyder
  • CD # 10: Bradford, Lackawanna, Pike, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Wayne and Wyoming
  • CD # 11: Carbon, Columbia, Luzerne and Montour
  • CD # 12: Cambria, Indiana and Somerset
  • CD # 15: Lehigh and Northampton
  • CD # 17: Dauphin and Lebanon
  • CD # 19: Adams and York
  • CD # 20: Greene and Washington
  • CD # 21: Erie and Mercer

DIVIDED COUNTIES (split between more than one Congressional District):

  • Allegheny: CDs 4, 14, 18 and 20
  • Armstrong: CDs 5 and 12
  • Butler: CDs 4 and 21
  • Centre: CDs 5 and 9
  • Chester: CDs 7 and 16
  • Clarion: CDs 5 and 12
  • Clearfield: CDs 5 and 9
  • Crawford: CDs 5 and 21
  • Cumberland: CDs 17 and 19
  • Delaware: CDs 1, 2 and 7
  • Fayette: CDs 12 and 20
  • Lancaster: CDs 16 and 17
  • Lycoming: CDs 5 and 10
  • Monroe: CDs 10 and 11
  • Montgomery: CDs 6, 7, 8, 13 and 15
  • Northumberland: CDs 6 and 11
  • Perry: CDs 9 and 17
  • Philadelphia (coterminous with the City of Philadelphia): CDs 1, 2 and 3
  • Westmoreland: CDs 4, 12 and 20

CD # 3 wholly within the City and County of Philadelphia
CD # 13 wholly within Montgomery County
CDs # 14 and # 18 wholly within Allegheny County