Eric Papenfuse

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Papenfuse won a contested Democratic Primary in the run-up to the Mayoral Election on May 17, 2017, with 48.5% of the votes. Gloria Martin-Roberts won 38.2% of the primary vote. [38] The vote between Papenfuse and Martin-Roberts was split evenly between Harrisburg's West side which favored Papenfuse to Harrisburg's East side which favored Martin-Roberts. On November 7, 2017, Papenfuse won a second, 4-year term as Mayor by a large margin with two of his opponents in the Democratic Primaries, Martin-Roberts and Lewis Butts, running as write-in candidates against him.

Eric Papenfuse
Eric Papenfuse 3 2015.JPG
Mayor of Harrisburg
In office
January 6, 2014 –January 3, 2022
Harrisburg Mayoral primary results, May 16, 2017 [39]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Eric Papenfuse 2,534 48.51%
Democratic Gloria Martin-Roberts1,99738.23%
Democratic Jennie Jenkins4909.38%
Democratic Lewis L. Butts, Jr.1232.35%
Democratic Anthony Thomas Harrell701.34%
Total votes5,223 100.0
Harrisburg Mayoral election uncontested, November 7, 2017 [40]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Eric Papenfuse 3,786 88.31%
N/A Write-in50111.68%

2021 Harrisburg mayoral election

Papenfuse lost the May 18, 2021, Democratic Primary election to City Council President Wanda Williams by forty-six votes. [41] On September 15, 2021, Papenfuse formally announced that he would run a write-in campaign in the November General Election. [42] Williams won against Papenfuse in the general election by more than a 2–1 margin. [43]

2021 Harrisburg mayoral Democratic primary results [44]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Wanda Williams 1,791 28.9%
Democratic Eric Papenfuse (incumbent)1,74528.1%
Democratic Dave Schankweiler1,33921.6%
Democratic Otto Banks1,24320.1%
Democratic Kevyn Knox661.0%
Democratic Write-ins250.4%
Total votes6,209 100%

Personal life

He met his wife, Catherine Lawrence, in a graduate American history class at Yale University. [45] After Lawrence and Papenfuse graduated from Yale University, in 1999 Lawrence received a position as an assistant professor of British history at Messiah College and they decided to move to Harrisburg. They found a large Victorian house on Front Street in Harrisburg's Shipoke neighborhood near the site of Harris' Ferry, the "most historic crossing place on the Susquehanna." [46]

He is the founder with his wife of The Eric Papenfuse and Catherine Lawrence Endowment Fund in Film and Media Studies of the University of California Press Foundation which has supported eight books on film studies. Their Endowment Fund supports "provocative books on the aesthetics, politics, history and sociocultural implications of cinema and other forms of mass media." [47]

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