The Green Papers: Pennsylvania 2005 Off Year Elections
 
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Elections for Statewide offices and Congress
Electoral Votes:21(3.90% of 538)
Governor:1 
Senators:2(Electoral Classes 1 and 3)
2002-2010 Representatives:19(4.37% of 435)
2000 Census:12,300,670 (4.36% of 281,998,273)
Estimated Voting age population (November 2000):9,155,000
Registered Voters (November 2000):7,781,997
Capital:Harrisburg
 

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Pennsylvania State and Local Government

           

U.S. Senate  6 year term. No Term Limit. 109th Senate  Senate Electoral Classes

Class 1   Republican   Senator Rick Santorum
First elected: 1994; re-elected 2000
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
  Candidate Democratic     (pending)
Possible candidate: State Treasurer Bob Casey, Jr.

Class 3   Republican   Senator Arlen Specter
First elected: 1980; re-elected: 1986, 1992, 1998, 2004.
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010
16 February 2005: Diagnosed with Hodgkins lymphoma

Governor  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2002, 2006. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms, All Governors

    Democratic   Governor Ed Rendell
First elected: 2002
Chair up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
The current Governor is unaffected by the State's term limit.

Lieutenant Governor  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2002, 2006. Elected on a ticket with the Governor

    Democratic   Lieutenant Governor Catherine Baker Knoll
First elected: 2002
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

109th U.S. House of Representatives  2 year term, Election Cycle 2006, 2008. No Term Limit. 109th House
Partisan Composition (primary disposition):
7 Democratic (7 Undetermined);
12 Republican (12 Undetermined)

CD 1   Democratic   Congressman Robert A. Brady
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 2   Democratic   Congressman Chaka Fattah
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 3   Republican   Congressman Phil English
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 4   Republican   Congressman Melissa Hart
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 5   Republican   Congressman John E. Peterson
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 6   Republican   Congressman Jim Gerlach
First elected: 2002
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 7   Republican   Congressman Curt Weldon
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 8   Republican   Congressman Michael G. "Mike" Fitzpatrick
First elected: 2004
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 9   Republican   Congressman Bill Shuster
First elected 15 May 2001 to fill the seat vacated by the resignation of Bud Shuster.
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 10   Republican   Congressman Don Sherwood
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 11   Democratic   Congressman Paul E. Kanjorski
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 12   Democratic   Congressman John P. Murtha
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 13   Democratic   Congressman Allyson Schwartz
First elected: 2004
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 14   Democratic   Congressman Mike Doyle
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 15   Republican   Congressman Charles W. Dent
First elected: 2004
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 16   Republican   Congressman Joseph R. Pitts
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 17   Democratic   Congressman Tim Holden
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 18   Republican   Congressman Tim Murphy
First elected: 2002
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 19   Republican   Congressman Todd Platts
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

Attorney General  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2004, 2008

    Republican   Attorney General Tom Corbett
First elected: 2004
Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

Treasurer  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2004, 2008

    Democratic   Treasurer Robert P. "Bob" Casey, Jr.
First elected: 2004
Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

Auditor General  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2004, 2008

    Democratic   Auditor General Jack Wagner
First elected: 2004
Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

Political Parties    Parties appear in parenthesis and italics when a candidate receives the endorsement of a given Party and/or official sources indicate a candidate's association with a particular Party but only where the Party in question does not appear on the actual ballot as such.

  America First
  Constitution
  Democratic
  Green
  Healthcare
  Independence
  Libertarian
  Not readily classifiable
  Republican
  Socialist Party USA

 


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