# Pennsylvania Senate, District 17

Pennsylvania State Senate District 17 includes parts of Delaware County and Montgomery County. It is currently represented by Democrat Amanda Cappelletti.

## District profile

The district includes the following areas:

## Senators

| Representative | Party | Years | Note |
| Joseph Hiester | Jeffersonian Republican | 1791 – 1792 | Pennsylvania State Representative from 1787 to 1790. U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania's 5th congressional district from 1797 to 1803, Pennsylvania's 3rd congressional district from 1803 to 1805 and Pennsylvania's 7th congressional district from 1815 to 1820. 5th Governor of Pennsylvania from 1820 to 1823. |
| Presley Carr Lane | Independent Republican | 1807 – 1814 | Speaker of the Senate from 1807 to 1814 |
| William Davidson | Independent Republican | 1817 – 1824 | Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representative from 1814 to 1818 including as Speaker of the House from 1817 to 1818 |
| William Rudolph Smith | Federalist | 1821 – 1824 | Attorney General for Wisconsin from 1855 to 1856 |
| Christian Garber | Democratic-Republican | 1823 – 1828 | |
| Thomas Jackson | Democratic | 1829 – 1832 | |
| George McCulloch | Democratic | 1835 – 1836 | U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 14th congressional district from 1839 to 1841 |
| Isaac Leet | Democratic | 1837 – 1838 | Pennsylvania State Senator for the 20th district from 1833 to 1836. U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania's 21st congressional district from 1839 to 1841. |
| John Hoge Ewing | Republican | 1837 – 1842 | Pennsylvania State Representative from 1835 to 1836. Speaker of the Senate from 1841 to 1842. U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 20th congressional district from 1845 to 1847. |
| Walter Craig | Whig | 1843 – 1844 | Pennsylvania State Senator for the 23rd district from 1845 to 1846 |
| Adam Ebaugh | Democratic | 1843 – 1845 | |
| Philip A. Smyser | Whig | 1847 | |
| Henry Fulton | Democratic | 1849 – 1850 | Pennsylvania State Senator for the 12th district from 1851 to 1852 |
| George Sanderson | Whig | 1851 – 1853 | 10th mayor of Lancaster, Pennsylvania |
| William Henry Welsh | Democratic | 1855 – 1859 | |
| Elijah Reed Myer | Republican | 1857 – 1858 | Pennsylvania State Senator for the 9th district from 1859 to 1860 |
| John M. Dunlap | Republican | 1863 – 1865 | |
| Benjamin Champneys | Democratic | 1865 – 1866 | Pennsylvania State Representative from 1825 to 1826, 1828 to 1829 and 1863. Pennsylvania Attorney General from 1846 to 1848. Pennsylvania State Senator for the 6th district from 1843 to 1844 and the 16th district from 1863 to 1864 |
| Joseph W. Fisher | Republican | 1867 – 1868 | Pennsylvania State Representative from 1848 to 1849. Chief justice of the territorial courts in Wyoming Territory from 1871 to 1879. |
| Esaias Billingfelt | Republican | 1867 – 1871 | |
| Andrew Hemphill Dill | Democratic | 1871 – 1877 | |
| Jacob George Heilman | Republican | 1873 – 1875 | |
| George F. Meily | Republican | 1877 – 1880 | |
| Cyrus Ressley Lantz | Republican | 1881 – 1884 | |
| John Peter Shindel Gobin | Republican | 1885 – 1898 | 7th Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania |
| Samuel Weiss | Republican | 1899 – 1904 | |
| Daniel P. Gerberich | Republican | 1905 – 1916 | |
| Horace Leander Haldeman | Republican | 1915 – 1916 | |
| Cleon N. Berntheizel | Republican | 1921 – 1924 | |
| William C. Freeman | Republican | 1925 – 1932 | |
| Henry J. Pierson | Republican | 1933 – 1940 | |
| Clarence D. Becker | Republican | 1943 – 1948 | |
| Harold W. Risser | Republican | 1947 – 1948 | |
| G. Graybill Diehm | Republican | 1949 – 1956 | |
| Thomas Alexander Ehrgood | Republican | 1957 – 1964 | |
| Robert P. Johnson | Republican | 1965 – 1966 | |
| Robert Lawrence Coughlin | Republican | 1967 – 1968 | Pennsylvania State Representative for the Montgomery County district from 1965 to 1966. U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 13th congressional district from 1969 to 1993 |
| Richard A. Tilghman | Republican | 1969 – 2001 | Pennsylvania State Representative for the Montgomery County district from 1967 to 1968 |
| Constance H. Williams | Democratic | 2001 – 2008 | Pennsylvania State Representative for the 149th district from 1997 to 2001 |
| Daylin Leach | Democratic | 2009 – 2020 | Pennsylvania State Representative for the 149th district from 2003 to 2008 |
| Amanda Cappelletti | Democratic | 2020 – present | |

## Recent election results

PA Senate election, 2020 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Democratic | Amanda Cappelletti | 104,273 | 65.8 |
| | Republican | Ellen Fisher | 54,066 | 34.2 |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 158,339 | 100.0 |
| | Democratic hold | Democratic hold | Democratic hold | Democratic hold |
Democratic primary, 2020 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Democratic | Amanda Cappelletti | 33,857 | 65.3% |
| | Democratic | Daylin Leach (incumbent) | 17,950 | 34.7% |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 51,807 | 100.0% |
PA Senate election, 2016 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Democratic | Daylin Leach (incumbent) | 88,827 | 64.0 |
| | Republican | Brian Gondek | 50,010 | 36.0 |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 138,837 | 100.0 |
| | Democratic hold | Democratic hold | Democratic hold | Democratic hold |
PA Senate election, 2012 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Democratic | Daylin Leach (incumbent) | 78,508 | 63.2 |
| | Republican | Charles Gehret | 45,707 | 36.8 |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 124,215 | 100.0 |
| | Democratic hold | Democratic hold | Democratic hold | Democratic hold |
PA Senate election, 2008 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Democratic | Daylin Leach | 76,350 | 61.5 |
| | Republican | Lance Rogers | 47,873 | 38.5 |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 124,223 | 100.0 |
| | Democratic hold | Democratic hold | Democratic hold | Democratic hold |