Pennsylvania State Senate District 9 includes parts of Chester County and Delaware County. It is currently represented by Democrat John I. Kane.
Pennsylvania's 9th State Senate district | |||
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Senator |
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Population (2021) | 252,137 |
The district includes the following areas:[1]
Representative[2] | Party | Years | District home | Note |
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Richard Thomas | Federalist | 1791 – 1793 | U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania from 1795 to 1801[3] | |
William Ross | Democratic-Republican | 1811 – 1815 | ||
Charles Fraser | Democratic-Republican | 1815 – 1819 | ||
Simon Snyder | Democratic-Republican | 1817 – 1819 | 3rd Governor of Pennsylvania from 1808 to 1817[4] | |
Robert Willets | Democratic | 1819 – 1821 | ||
Redmond Conyngham | Federalist | 1819 – 1823 | ||
Andrew Albright | Republican | 1821 – 1822 | ||
Lewis Dewart | Democratic-Republican | 1821 – 1825 | ||
John Ray | Jackson Democrat | 1827 – 1829 | ||
Samuel Jones Packer | Anti-Mason | 1831 – 1833 | ||
Isaac Slenker | Democratic | 1835 – 1837 | ||
Charles Frailey | Democratic | 1835 – 1841 | ||
Samuel Freeman Headley | Democratic | 1841 – 1842 | ||
Jefferson Kreider Heckman | Democratic | 1843 – 1845 | ||
Jacob D. Boas | Whig | 1847 – 1849 | ||
Conrad Schilp Shimer | Democratic | 1851 – 1852 | ||
William Fry | Democratic | 1853 – 1854 | ||
Joseph Laubach | Democratic | 1855 – 1857 | ||
Elijah Reed Myer | Republican | 1859 – 1860 | Pennsylvania State Senator for the 17th district from 1857 to 1858[5] | |
George Landon | Republican | 1859 – 1863 | ||
William J. Turrell | Republican | 1863 – 1865 | ||
William M. Randall | Democratic | 1865 – 1873 | ||
Thomas Valentine Cooper | Republican | 1874 – 1889 | Pennsylvania State Representative for Delaware County from 1870 to 1871, 1872 to 1873 and 1901 to 1909. Pennsylvania State Senator for the 5th district from 1873 to 1874[6] | |
John Buchanan Robinson | Republican | 1889 – 1892 | U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 6th district from 1891 to 1897[7] | |
Jesse Matlack Baker | Republican | 1893 – 1897 | Pennsylvania State Representative for Delaware County from 1889-1892[8] | |
William Cameron Sproul | Republican | 1897 – 1919 | 27th Governor of Pennsylvania from 1919 to 1923[9] | |
Richard J. Baldwin | Republican | 1919 – 1920 | Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1917 to 1918[10] | |
Albert Dutton MacDade | Republican | 1921 – 1929 | ||
John J. McClure | Republican | 1929 – 1937 | Found guilty and sentenced to 18 months in prison for vice and rum-running, conviction overturned on appeal[11] | |
Weldon Brinton Heyburn | Republican | 1937 – 1949 | ||
George Watkins | Republican | 1949 – 1960 | U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 7th congressional district from 1965 to 1967. U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 9th congressional district from 1967 to 1970[12] | |
Clarence D. Bell | Republican | 1961 – 2002 | Longest serving state senator in Pennsylvania history[13] | |
Dominic F. Pileggi | Republican | 2002 – 2016 | Mayor of Chester, Pennsylvania from 1999 to 2002. Republican leader of the Pennsylvania Senate from 2007 to 2014[14] | |
Tom Killion | Republican | 2016 – 2020 | Pennsylvania State Representative for the 168th district from 2003 to 2016[15] | |
John I. Kane | Democratic | 2020 – present |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | John I. Kane | 80,198 | 51.9 | |
Republican | Tom Killion (incumbent) | 74,173 | 48.1 | |
Total votes | 154,371 | 100.0 | ||
Democratic gain from Republican |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Tom Killion (incumbent) | 70,764 | 51.4 | |
Democratic | Martin Molloy | 67,011 | 48.6 | |
Total votes | 137,775 | 100.0 | ||
Republican hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Tom Killion | 41,613 | 56.9 | |
Democratic | Martin Molloy | 31,533 | 43.1 | |
Total votes | 73,146 | 100.0 | ||
Republican hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Dominic F. Pileggi (incumbent) | 73,003 | 55.4 | |
Democratic | Patricia Worrell | 58,769 | 44.6 | |
Total votes | 131,772 | 100.0 | ||
Republican hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Dominic F. Pileggi (incumbent) | 77,440 | 58.1 | |
Democratic | John Linder | 55,730 | 41.9 | |
Total votes | 133,170 | 100.0 | ||
Republican hold |