Pennsylvania Senate, District 15

Pennsylvania's 15th State Senate district
Senator	John DiSanto R – Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County
Population (2021)	260,164

Pennsylvania State Senate District 15 includes part of Dauphin County. It is currently represented by Republican John DiSanto.

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 – present

Recent election results

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.

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