Pennsylvania Senate, District 15

Pennsylvania's 15th State Senate district
Senator	Patty Kim D – Harrisburg
Population (2021)	260,164

Pennsylvania State Senate District 15 includes part of Dauphin County. It is currently represented by Democrat Patty Kim.

District profile

The district includes the following areas: ^[1]

• Conewago Township
• Dauphin
• Derry Township
• East Hanover Township
• Harrisburg
• Highspire
• Hummelstown
• Londonderry Township
• Lower Paxton Township
• Lower Swatara Township
• Middle Paxton Township
• Middletown
• Paxtang
• Penbrook
• Royalton
• South Hanover Township
• Steelton
• Susquehanna Township
• Swatara Township
• West Hanover Township

Senators

Representative [2]	Party	Years	District home	Note
James Poe	Democratic-Republican	1803 – 1818
Robert Smith	Democratic-Republican	1819 – 1822
John Rea	Democratic-Republican	1823 – 1824
James Dunlop	Federalist	1823 – 1826
David Fullerton	Anti-Masonic	1827 – 1838		U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 5th district from 1819 to 1820. Pennsylvania State Senator for the 14th district from 1839 to 1840 [3]
Samuel M. Barclay	National Republican	1837 – 1840
George Shannon Mullin, Sr.	Whig	1841 – 1842		Pennsylvania State Senator for the 19th district from 1843 to 1844 [4]
Henry C. Eyer	Democratic	1845 – 1846		Pennsylvania State Senator for the 8th district from 1843 to 1844 [5]
Jacob Wagenseller	Whig	1845 – 1848
Jonathan J. Cunningham	Whig	1849 – 1850
Robert Allison McMurtrie	Whig	1851 – 1852
Ner Middleswarth	Whig	1853 – 1854		Pennsylvania State Representative from 1815 to 1841. U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 10th congressional district from 1853 to 1855 [6]
John Creswell, Jr.	Democratic	1853 – 1858		Pennsylvania State Senator for the 20th district from 1859 to 1860 [7]
John Brisban Rutherford	Republican	1857 – 1860
Amos R. Boughter	Republican	1861 – 1864
David Fleming	Republican	1863 – 1864		Pennsylvania State Senator for the 16th district from 1865 to 1866 [8]
David B. Montgomery	Democratic	1865 – 1866		Pennsylvania State Senator for the 13th district from 1863 to 1864 [9]
George Duggan Jackson	Democratic	1867 – 1868		Pennsylvania State Senator for the 24th district from 1879 to 1880 [10]
Thomas Chalfant	Democratic	1873 – 1874
Andrew Jackson Herr	Republican	1875 – 1880
Alexander F. Thompson	Republican	1885 – 1892
Samuel John Milton McCarrell	Republican	1893 – 1900
John E. Fox	Republican	1901 – 1912
Edward Ensinger Beidleman	Republican	1913 – 1918		Pennsylvania State Representative for Dauphin County from 1905 to 1908. 12th Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania from 1919 to 1923 [11]
Frank A. Smith	Republican	1919 – 1924
William H. Earnest	Republican	1925 – 1932
George Leffingwell Reed	Republican	1933 – 1936
George Kunkel	Democratic	1937 – 1940
M. Harvey Taylor	Republican	1941 – 1964
William B. Lentz	Republican	1965 – 1976
George W. Gekas	Republican	1977 – 1982		U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 17th congressional district from 1983 to 2003 [12]
John J. Shumaker	Republican	1983 – 1995		Seated April 11, 1983, to fill vacancy. [13] Resigned August 31, 1995 [14]
Jeffrey E. Piccola	Republican	1995 – 2012		Pennsylvania State Representative for the 104th district from 1977 to 1995. [15]
Rob Teplitz	Democratic	2013 – 2017	Susquehanna Township
John DiSanto	Republican	2017 – 2024
Patty Kim	Democratic	2025 – present	Harrisburg

Recent election results

PA Senate election, 2024:
Pennsylvania Senate, District 15

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Patty Kim	77,155	58.22
	Republican	Nick DiFrancesco	55,368	41.78
Total votes			132,523	100.0
	Democratic gain from Republican

PA Senate election, 2020

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	John DiSanto (incumbent)	70,041	51.7
	Democratic	George Scott	65,366	48.3
Total votes			135,407	100.0
	Republican hold

PA Senate election, 2016

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	John DiSanto	62,774	51.7
	Democratic	Rob Teplitz (incumbent)	58,591	48.3
Total votes			121,365	100.0
	Republican gain from Democratic

PA Senate election, 2012

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Rob Teplitz	61,139	51.5
	Republican	John McNally	57,504	48.5
Total votes			118,643	100.0
	Democratic gain from Republican

PA Senate election, 2008

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Jeffrey Piccola (incumbent)	63,829	52.0
	Democratic	Judy Hirsch	59,014	48.0
Total votes			122,843	100.0
	Republican hold

References

1. "2021 Final Reapportionment Plan" (PDF). Pennsylvania Department of State . Retrieved November 11, 2022.
2. "Pennsylvania State Senate - Senate Historical Biographies". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved June 16, 2019.
3. "Pennsylvania Senate - David Fullerton Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved June 15, 2019.
4. "George Shannon Mullin, Sr". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved July 4, 2019.
5. "Pennsylvania State Senate - Henry C Eyer Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved July 4, 2019.
6. "Ner B Middleswarth". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved July 4, 2019.
7. "John Creswell, Jr". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved July 4, 2019.
8. "David Fleming". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved July 4, 2019.
9. "David B Montgomery". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved July 4, 2019.
10. "Pennsylvania Senate - George Duggan Jackson Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved June 16, 2019.
11. "Pennsylvania Senate - Edward Ensinger Beidleman Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved July 2, 2019.
12. "GEKAS, George William, (1930 - )". www.bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved October 6, 2019.
13. Cox, Harold (2004). "Pennsylvania Senate - 1983-1984" (PDF). Wilkes University Election Statistics Project . Wilkes University.
14. Cox, Harold (2004). "Pennsylvania Senate - 1995-1996" (PDF). Wilkes University Election Statistics Project . Wilkes University.
15. "Pennsylvania House of Representatives - JEFFREY E. PICCOLA Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved June 21, 2019.

• Cox, Harold (2004). "Legislatures - 1776-2004". Wilkes University Election Statistics Project . Wilkes University.