Pennsylvania Senate, District 9

Pennsylvania's 9th State Senate district
Senator	John I. Kane D – Birmingham Township, Chester County
Population (2021)	252,137

Pennsylvania State Senate District 9 includes parts of Chester County and Delaware County. It is currently represented by Democrat John I. Kane.

District profile

The district includes the following areas: ^[1]

Chester County

• Avondale
• Birmingham Township
• East Marlborough Township
• Franklin Township
• Kennett Township
• Kennett Square
• London Britain Township
• London Grove Township
• New Garden Township
• Pennsbury Township
• Pocopson Township
• Thornbury Township
• West Grove
• Westtown Township

Delaware County

• Aston Township
• Bethel Township
• Brookhaven
• Chadds Ford Township
• Chester
• Chester Heights
• Chester Township
• Concord Township
• Eddystone
• Edgmont Township
• Lower Chichester Township
• Marcus Hook
• Middletown Township
• Nether Providence Township
• Parkside
• Rose Valley
• Thornbury Township
• Trainer
• Upland
• Upper Chichester Township

Senators

Representative [2]	Party	Years	District home	Note
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

Recent election results

PA Senate election, 2020

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	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

PA Senate election, 2016

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Tom Killion (incumbent)	70,764	51.4
	Democratic	Martin Molloy	67,011	48.6
Total votes			137,775	100.0
	Republican hold

9th Senatorial District special election, 2016

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Tom Killion	41,613	56.9
	Democratic	Martin Molloy	31,533	43.1
Total votes			73,146	100.0
	Republican hold

PA Senate election, 2012

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Dominic F. Pileggi (incumbent)	73,003	55.4
	Democratic	Patricia Worrell	58,769	44.6
Total votes			131,772	100.0
	Republican hold

PA Senate election, 2008

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Dominic F. Pileggi (incumbent)	77,440	58.1
	Democratic	John Linder	55,730	41.9
Total votes			133,170	100.0
	Republican hold

References

1. "2021 Final Reapportionment Plan" (PDF). Pennsylvania Department of State . Retrieved November 11, 2022.
2. "Pennsylvania State Senate Historical Biographies". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved March 10, 2019.
3. "THOMAS, Richard, (1744-1832)". www.bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved October 4, 2019.
4. "Governor Simon Snyder". Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission . Retrieved May 25, 2015.
5. "Pennsylvania State Senate - Elijah Reed Myer Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved November 1, 2019.
6. "Pennsylvania House of Representatives - Thomas Valentine Cooper". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved July 23, 2018.
7. "ROBINSON, John Buchanan, (1846-1933)". www.bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved August 18, 2018.
8. "Pennsylvania House of Representatives Jesse M. Baker". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved August 17, 2018.
9. "Governor William Cameron Sproul". www.phmc.state.pa.us. Retrieved March 3, 2018.
10. "Richard Jacobs Baldwin". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved August 8, 2018.
11. Beers, Paul B. (November 1, 2010). Pennsylvania Politics Today and Yesterday: The Tolerable Accommodation. Penn State Press. p. 137. ISBN   978-0271044989 . Retrieved November 25, 2014.
12. "George Robert Watkins". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved June 13, 2018.
13. "Clarence D. Bell - PA State Senator". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved April 20, 2018.
14. "Pennsylvania State Senate - Dominic F Pileggi". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved October 4, 2019.
15. "THOMAS H. KILLION". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved December 19, 2018.

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