Pennsylvania's 8th congressional district

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Pennsylvania District 8 of the United States House of Representatives is a Congressional district that serves Bucks County, along with a small portion of Montgomery County and northeast Philadelphia, in Pennsylvania. The current Representative from District 8 is Democrat Patrick Murphy.

[edit] Election results

US House election, 2004: Pennsylvania District 8
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Virginia Schrader	143,427	44	+7
	Republican	Mike Fitzpatrick	183,229	55	-9
	Libertarian	Arthur L. Farnsworth	3,710	1	+1
	Constitution	Erich Lukas	898	0.3	+0.3
Majority
Turnout			331,264

US House election, 2006: Pennsylvania District 8
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Patrick Murphy	125,667	50	+6
	Republican	Mike Fitzpatrick	124,146	50	-5
Majority
Turnout			249,813

[edit] Representatives

Representative	Party	Years	District home	Note
District created in 1795 from Pennsylvania's At-large congressional district
Thomas Hartley	Federalist	1795 – 1800	York	Died in office
John Stewart	Democratic-Republican	1801 – 1803	York	Moved to Pennsylvania's 6th congressional district
William Findley	Democratic-Republican	1803 – 1813	Latrobe
William Piper	Democratic-Republican	1813 – 1817	Everett
Alexander Ogle	Democratic-Republican	1817 – 1819	Somerset	Not a candidate for renomination
Robert Philson	Democratic-Republican	1819 – 1821	Berlin
John Tod	Democratic-Republican	1821 – 1823		Moved to Pennsylvania's 13th congressional district
District reorganized in 1823 to have two seats
Thomas Jones Rogers Samuel D. Ingham	Democratic-Republican	1823 – 1824		Thomas Jones Rogers resigned April 20, 1824
George Wolf Samuel D. Ingham	Democratic-Republican	1824 – 1829
Samuel A. Smith Peter Ihrie, Jr.	Jacksonian	1829 – 1831	Doylestown Easton
Samuel A. Smith Henry King	Jacksonian	1831 – 1833	Doylestown Allentown
District reorganized in 1833 to have one seat
Henry King	Jacksonian	1833 – 1835	Allentown	Not a candidate for renomination
Edward Burd Hubley	Jacksonian	1835 – 1837	Reading	Switched to the Democratic Party
Edward Burd Hubley	Democratic	1837 – 1839	Reading
Peter Newhard	Democratic	1839 – 1843	Allentown	Not a candidate for renomination
Jeremiah Brown	Whig	1843 – 1845	Lancaster	Not a candidate for renomination
John Strohm	Whig	1845 – 1849	Lancaster
Thaddeus Stevens	Whig	1849 – 1853	York
Henry A. Muhlenberg	Democratic	1853 – 1854	Reading	Died in office
J. Glancy Jones	Democratic	1854 – 1858	Reading	Resigned October 30, 1858, and was appointed United States Minister to Austria
William H. Keim	Republican	1858 – 1859	Reading	Died in office
John Schwartz	Anti-Lecompton Democrat	1859 – 1860	Reading	Died in office
Jacob K. McKenty	Democrat	1860 – 1861		Not a candidate for renomination
Sydenham E. Ancona	Democrat	1861 – 1867		Unsuccessful candidate for renomination
James L. Getz	Democrat	1867 – 1873		Not a candidate for renomination
Hiester Clymer	Democrat	1873 – 1881
Daniel Ermentrout	Democrat	1881 – 1889		Unsuccessful candidate for renomination
William Mutchler	Democrat	1889 – 1893		Died in office
Howard Mutchler	Democrat	1893 – 1895		Not a candidate for renomination
Joseph J. Hart	Democrat	1895 – 1897		Not a candidate for renomination
William S. Kirkpatrick	Republican	1897 - 1899		Unsuccessful candidate for reelection
Laird H. Barber	Democrat	1899 – 1901		Not a candidate for renomination
Howard Mutchler	Democrat	1901 – 1903		Not a candidate for renomination
Irving P. Wanger	Republican	1903 - 1911		Unsuccessful candidate for reelection
Robert E. Difenderfer	Democrat	1911 – 1915		Unsuccessful candidate for renomination
Henry W. Watson	Republican	1915 - 1923		Moved to Pennsylvania's 9th congressional district
Thomas S. Butler	Republican	1923 - 1928		Died in office
James Wolfenden	Republican	1928 - 1945		Moved to Pennsylvania's 7th congressional district
Charles L. Gerlach	Republican	1945 - 1947		Died in office
Franklin H. Lichtenwalter	Republican	1947 - 1951
Albert C. Vaughn	Republican	1951		Died in office
Karl C. King	Republican	1951 – 1957
Willard S. Curtin	Republican	1957 – 1967
Edward G. Biester, Jr.	Republican	1967 – 1977
Peter H. Kostmayer	Democrat	1977 – 1981
James K. Coyne, III	Republican	1981 – 1983
Peter H. Kostmayer	Democrat	1983 – 1993
James C. Greenwood	Republican	1993 – 2005
Mike Fitzpatrick	Republican	2005 – 2007
Patrick Murphy	Democrat	2007 – Incumbent

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