Pennsylvania Senate, District 1

Pennsylvania's 1st
State Senate district
Senator
  Nikil Saval
D–Philadelphia
Population (2021)250,243

Pennsylvania State Senate District 1 includes part of Philadelphia County. It is currently represented by Democrat Nikil Saval.

District profile

The district includes the following areas:[1]

Philadelphia County:

  • Ward 01
  • Ward 02
  • Ward 05
  • Ward 08
  • Ward 18
  • Ward 25 [PART, Divisions 01, 04 and 07]
  • Ward 26 [PART, Divisions 01, 02, 03, 20 and 23]
  • Ward 30
  • Ward 31
  • Ward 39
  • Ward 40 [PART, Divisions 30, 38 and 40]

Senators

Representative[2] Party Years District home Note
Lindsay Coats Federalist 1791 – 1797
Dennis Whelen Federalist 1795 – 1801
Samuel King Federalist 1799 – 1801
William Rodman Jeffersonian Republican 1799 – 1803 U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district from 1811 to 1813[3]
Melchior Rahm Jeffersonian Republican 1805 – 1813
John Barclay Federalist 1811 – 1813 Mayor of Philadelphia from 1791 to 1793[4]
Nicholas Biddle Federalist 1813 – 1815 3rd president of the Second Bank of the United States from 1813 to 1815[5]
Jacob Shearer Democratic-Republican 1813 – 1815
William Maghee Federalist 1815 – 1817
John Read Federalist 1817 – 1818
Michael Leib Democratic-Republican 1818 – 1821 U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district from 1799 to 1803. U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 1st congressional district from 1803 to 1806. U.S. Senator for Pennsylvania from 1809 to 1814[6]
Condy Raguet Federalist 1817 – 1821 1st United States Ambassador to Brazil from 1825 to 1827[7]
Robert McMullin Federalist 1819 – 1820
James Robertson Federalist 1821 – 1823
John Wurtz Federalist 1821 – 1823
George Emlen Federalist 1823 – 1825
John Hare Powel Federalist 1827 – 1829 Colonel in the U.S. Army. Founder of the Pennsylvania Agricultural Society in 1823[8]
William Boyd Democratic 1831 – 1833
David S. Hassinger Democratic 1831 – 1833
George W. Toland Democratic 1833 – 1835 U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district from 1837 to 1843[9]
Abraham Miller Democratic 1835 – 1837
Frederick Fraley Whig 1837 – 1839 One of the founders of the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia[10]
Henry S. Spackman Washington 1839 – 1843
Jacob Gratz Democratic 1841 – 1842
William Bradford Reed Whig 1841 – 1842 Pennsylvania Attorney General from 1838 to 1839. U.S. Minister to China in 1857[11]
William A. Crabb Whig 1843 – 1855
Joseph Bailey Democratic 1843 – 1851 U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 16th congressional district from 1861 to 1863. U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 15th congressional district from 1863 to 1865[12]
Charles L. Gibbons Whig 1845 – 1847
Benjamin Matthias Whig 1847 – 1851
Charles O'Neill Whig 1853 – 1854 U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district from 1863 to 1871 and from 1873 to 1893[13]
Eli Kirk Price Whig 1853 – 1855
Harlan G. Ingram Democratic 1857 – 1858
Isaac Nathaniel Marselis Democratic 1857 – 1859
Samuel Jackson Randall Democratic 1857 – 1859 U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 1st congressional district from 1863 to 1875 and from Pennsylvania's 3rd congressional district from 1875 to 1890. 29th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1876 to 1881[14]
Richardson L. Wright Democratic 1857 – 1859
John H. Parker Republican 1859 – 1860
George Rush Smith Republican 1861 – 1862
Cornelius M. Donovan Democratic 1861 – 1865
Jeremiah Nichols Whig 1861 – 1865
Abraham Heistand Glatz Democratic 1861 – 1867
George C. Connell Republican 1861 – 1869
Jacob Elwood Ridgway Republican 1863 – 1865
Stephen Fowler Wilson Republican 1863 – 1865 U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district from 1865 to 1869[15]
William McCandless Democratic 1867 – 1868 Colonel in the Union Army during the U.S. Civil War and the first Secretary of Internal Affairs of Pennsylvania[16]
William W. Watt Republican 1869 – 1870
John B. Warfel Republican 1869 – 1875
Robert Porter Dechert Democratic 1871 – 1872
James B. Alexander Republican 1873 – 1875
Daniel Ermentrout Democratic 1873 – 1887 U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 8th congressional district from 1881 to 1889 and Pennsylvania's 9th congressional district from 1897 to 1899[17]
George Handy Smith Republican 1875 – 1895
William Wagner Whig 1883 – 1884 Founder of the Wagner Free Institute of Science[18]
George Augustus Vare Republican 1897 – 1907
Edwin H. Vare Republican 1909 – 1921
William Scott Vare Republican 1922 – 1923 U.S. Senator-elect for Pennsylvania from 1927 to 1929. Never seated and removed in 1929 due to allegations of corruption and voter fraud[19]
Flora M. Vare Republican 1925 – 1928 First woman to serve in the Pennsylvania Senate[20]
Lawrence E. McCrossin Democratic 1929 – 1930
Joseph C. Trainer Republican 1931 – 1935
Anthony J. DiSilvestro Democratic 1937 – 1965
Henry J. Cianfrani Democratic 1967 – 1977 Resigned on December 15, 1977[21]
Vincent J. Fumo Democratic 1978 – 2008 Convicted of 137 federal corruption charges and sentenced to 55 months in federal prison[22]
Larry Farnese Democratic 2009 – 2021 Elected November 4, 2008. Lost renomination in 2020.[23]
Nikil Saval Democratic 2021 – present Elected November 3, 2020

Recent election results

PA Senate election, 2020
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Nikil Saval 124,514 100
Total votes 124,514 100.0
Democratic hold
Democratic primary, 2020
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Nikil Saval 35,747 56.9%
Democratic Larry Farnese (incumbent) 27,025 43.1%
Total votes 62,772 100.0%
PA Senate election, 2016
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Larry Farnese (incumbent) 114,099 100
Total votes 114,099 100.0
Democratic hold
Democratic primary, 2016
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Larry Farnese (incumbent) 37,647 74.3%
Democratic John Morley 13,049 25.7%
Total votes 50,696 100.0%
PA Senate election, 2012
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Larry Farnese (incumbent) 95,612 82.4
Republican Alfonso Gambone, Jr. 20,421 17.6
Total votes 116,033 100.0
Democratic hold
PA Senate election, 2008
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Larry Farnese 95,727 80.8
Republican Jack Morley 22,698 19.2
Total votes 118,425 100.0
Democratic hold
Democratic primary, 2008
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Larry Farnese 30,879 42.9%
Democratic Johnny Dougherty 27,331 37.9%
Democratic Anne Dicker 13,813 19.2%
Total votes 72,023 100.0%

References

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  19. ^ "U.S. Senate: The Election Case of William B. Wilson vs. William S. Vare of Pennsylvania (1929)". www.senate.gov. Retrieved January 3, 2019.
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