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The 2006 United States House elections in Pennsylvania was an election for Pennsylvania's delegation to the United States House of Representatives, which occurred as part of the general election of the House of Representatives on November 7, 2006.[1]




Contents





  • 1 General election

    • 1.1 1st Congressional district


    • 1.2 2nd Congressional District


    • 1.3 3rd Congressional district


    • 1.4 4th Congressional district


    • 1.5 5th Congressional district


    • 1.6 6th Congressional district


    • 1.7 7th Congressional district


    • 1.8 8th Congressional district


    • 1.9 9th Congressional district


    • 1.10 10th Congressional district


    • 1.11 11th Congressional district


    • 1.12 12th Congressional district


    • 1.13 13th Congressional district


    • 1.14 14th Congressional district


    • 1.15 15th Congressional district


    • 1.16 16th Congressional district


    • 1.17 17th Congressional district


    • 1.18 18th Congressional district


    • 1.19 19th Congressional district



  • 2 References


  • 3 See also




General election[edit]



1st Congressional district[edit]












General Election 2006: Pennsylvania's 1st congressional district
Party
Candidate
Votes
%


Democratic

Robert A. Brady
137,987
100.0


2nd Congressional District[edit]






















General Election 2006: Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district
Party
Candidate
Votes
%


Democratic

Chaka Fattah
165,867
88.6


Republican
Michael Gessner
17,291
9.2


Green
David G. Baker
4,125
2.2


3rd Congressional district[edit]






















General Election 2006: Pennsylvania's 3rd congressional district
Party
Candidate
Votes
%


Republican

Phil English
108,525
53.6


Democratic
Steven Porter
85,110
42.1


Constitution
Timothy J. Hagberg
8,706
4.3


4th Congressional district[edit]

















General Election 2006: Pennsylvania's 4th congressional district
Party
Candidate
Votes
%


Democratic

Jason Altmire
131,847
51.9


Republican

Melissa Hart
122,049
48.1


5th Congressional district[edit]

















General Election 2006: Pennsylvania's 5th congressional district
Party
Candidate
Votes
%


Republican

John E. Peterson
115,126
60.1


Democratic
Donald L. HIlliard
76,456
39.9


6th Congressional district[edit]


In the Pennsylvania 6th congressional district election, incumbent Republican Jim Gerlach defeated Democratic opponent Lois Murphy by a 50.7%–49.3% margin to secure a third term. This was a rematch of the 2004 election, when Gerlach defeated Murphy by a similarly close margin.[2] In the primary election, Gerlach was unopposed and Lois Murphy defeated developer Mike Leibowitz.[3]


The race was one of the most competitive in the nation, with CQPolitics.comrating the race as highly competitive with "No Clear Favorite." The Cook Political Report rated the race "Republican Toss Up"[4] and Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball rated this as one of the top fifty most competitive House races in the nation, and was the first one he predicted a turnover in.[5] The candidates participated in two debates in October. The first, sponsored by the AARP focused on Social Security, healthcare, Iraq, and taxes.[6][7][8] The second debate, airing on WPVI, focused on Iraq.[9] Murphy outspent Gerlach by a margin of $4,097,663 to $3,492,402.[10]

















General Election 2006: Pennsylvania's 6th congressional district
Party
Candidate
Votes
%


Republican

Jim Gerlach
121,047
50.7


Democratic

Lois Murphy
117,892
49.3


7th Congressional district[edit]


In the Pennsylvania 7th congressional district election, long-time incumbent Republican Curt Weldon was defeated by retired Navy 3-star admiral Joe Sestak.


Prior to the primary election, Iraq war veteran Bryan Lentz agreed to drop his bid for the seat held by Weldon, instead running for a Pennsylvania state legislature seat, a move brokered by Governor Ed Rendell. Lentz had raised about $125,000 for his congressional campaign. Haverford Democrat Paul Scoles, who ran poorly funded race against Weldon in 2004, also backed out in early February, throwing his support behind Sestak.[11]


Pennsylvania's 7th congressional district, covering the suburbs west of Philadelphia, was one of the districts where John Kerry outpolled Bush in the 2004 election, which nonetheless elected a Republican to the House. As such, it became the target of Democratic strategists; in 2006 the Democrats fielded a much stronger and vastly better-funded challenger.[12] On October 13, the media reported that Weldon and his daughter were being investigated by the FBI[13][14] for their involvement with two Russian energy companies and a Serbian company connected with Slobodan Milosevic. The investigation focuses on the lobbying firm Solutions North America owned and run by daughter Karen Weldon and local Republican operative Charlie Sexton, which was hired for $1 million, and whether Weldon was involved in obtaining the contracts or was lobbied by his daughter's firm. Three days later, FBI agents raided the home of Weldon's daughter, Karen, as well as five other locations of Weldon associates in Pennsylvania and Florida as part of the investigation.[15][16] On October 17, 2006, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that Weldon "acknowledged yesterday that he was under investigation."[1]


On October 13, 2006, CQPolitics changed their rating on the race, from "Leans Republican" to the highly competitive "No Clear Favorite."[17] This was the second time CQPolitics changed its rating in the match-up; in July, it reclassified the race from "Republican Favored" to the more competitive "Leans Republican." They subsequently noted, however, that this change was made the day before the media reported that the FBI was investigating Weldon and his daughter. Shortly after the raid, CQPolitics.com changed their rating on this race for a third time, this time from "No Clear Favorite" to "Leans Democratic".[18] On October 6, 2006, the non-partisan Cook Political Report re-rated the race from "Lean Republican" to the more competitive "Toss Up."[4]Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball, in late June, rated as one of the top thirty most competitive House races in the nation. Sabato has said that "Weldon has deep roots in this district, but his persistence on the issue of finding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has struck more than several observers as unusual."[19]

















General Election 2006: Pennsylvania's 7th congressional district
Party
Candidate
Votes
%


Democratic

Joe Sestak
147,898
56.4


Republican

Curt Weldon
114,426
43.6


8th Congressional district[edit]

















General Election 2006: Pennsylvania's 8th congressional district
Party
Candidate
Votes
%


Democratic

Patrick J. Murphy
125,656
50.3


Republican

Michael G. Fitzpatrick
124,138
49.7


9th Congressional district[edit]

















General Election 2006: Pennsylvania's 9th congressional district
Party
Candidate
Votes
%


Republican

Bill Shuster
121,069
60.3


Democratic
Tony Barr
79,610
39.7


10th Congressional district[edit]


The 2006 Pennsylvania 10th congressional district election was held on November 7 to elect a representative from the Pennsylvania's 10th congressional district. Republican four-term incumbent Don Sherwood was defeated by Democrat Chris Carney, a former Defense Department consultant and navy lieutenant commander.


CQPolitics noted that "[a]t the outset of the 2006 midterm campaign cycle, it would have been difficult to identify a more politically 'safe' member than Pennsylvania Rep. Don Sherwood. A four-term Republican from the strongly conservative 10th District in northeastern Pennsylvania, Sherwood had run unchallenged by Democrats in 2002 and 2004."[20] But, he "enters the general election campaign in a weakened position mostly because of his extramarital relationship with a young woman, to which he publicly admitted last year. Sherwood, though, adamantly denied the woman’s charges that he also physically abused her. A lawsuit brought by the woman against Sherwood was later settled."[21]


On May 15, 2006, Sherwood survived a "surprisingly strong challenge" in the Republican primary from Kathy Scott, a political newcomer.[22] Sherwood received 56% of the vote. CQPolitics reported that his "mediocre showing" could be attributed to the admitted affair.[23] Scott did not file a report with the FEC, which indicates that she spent less than $5,000 in her campaign.[24] His small margin of victory came despite the fact that, prior to the primary, Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum endorsed Sherwood and recorded an automated telephone call on Sherwood’s behalf,[24] as did President George W. Bush.[25]


Sherwood's continuing problems resulting from the extramarital affair and Carney's nationally famous ads about it (in which actual residents of the district accuse Sherwood of having "no family values"), as well as polls that showed him 7 to 9 points behind, compelled Sherwood to respond with a television ad in which he directly apologized to voters for the affair, denied the allegations of physical abuse, and promised to continue what he said was his effective representation of the district if the voters were to forgive and re-elect him. However, the initial 2005 news about Sherwood admitting to an affair and being accused of choking the woman as well as the well-recognized Carney ads, which were described by the Associated Press as "hard-hitting", stuck with Sherwood's name throughout the campaign. Fallout for Sherwood continued, including charges that he voted against an increase in the minimum wage while hiking his own congressional income, a claim which the Congressman denounced as "bullshit", and for voting for the Central American Free Trade Agreement, which Carney said "sent Pennsylvanian jobs overseas." Sherwood fought back by labeling Carney a "liar" for the minimum wage charges and subsequently accused Carney of being a "liberal" for supposedly supporting tax increases. Carney shot back, accusing Sherwood of supporting tax cuts for the wealthy, while depriving the middle-class. Carol Sherwood, the Congressman's wife, wrote a letter to registered Republicans in the 10th District in which she lambasted Carney as someone who "gets some pleasure out of hurting our family" and stated that "I am certainly not condoning the mistake Don made, but I am not going to dwell on either." Simultaneously, President Bush made a visit to the area in October to Keystone College in La Plume Township, Pennsylvania to endorse Sherwood's run, a move which many believe might have hurt Sherwood when given Bush's declining popularity both nationwide and in the district. Bush supported Sherwood as "the right man to represent this district", to which the President drew uncertain applause from the audience, which included several empty tables. Coincidentally, Bush had deemed the week that he flew to Pennsylvania to help Sherwood as "National Character Counts Week", which propelled Carney to blast Bush as a hypocrite, stating he could not comprehend how President Bush could both endorse moral values and campaign for the affair-laden Sherwood in the same week. Simultaneously, Sherwood's campaign took a boost from a local newspaper, Times Leader, which ran a front-page headline in late October in which it accused Carney of "misrepresenting" quotes that were included in a Times Leader editorial page about Sherwood's extramarital affair. Meanwhile, Carney took pages from the Republican playbook by using the same tactics the GOP uses against Democrats to attack Sherwood, accusing the Congressman of having a "pre-9/11 mentality" on port security and of supporting amnesty for illegal immigrants, referring to President Bush's guest worker program for illegal immigration. Despite endorsements from Vice President Cheney, President Bush, and U.S. Senator Rick Santorum, Sherwood's campaign was surprisingly beaten in the financial spending wars by the Carney campaign. In the closing days of the campaign, last-minute news about new developments in a 2005 $500,000 deal with Sherwood's former mistress and accuser helped boost Carney, who had consistently played the trump card of "honor", "integrity", and "family values" in his campaign. Many voters also resonated with Carney's vague yet inspiring vow "to make Pennsylvania proud", a slogan that became very familiar to the 10th District, as well as his impressive record as a senior terrorism advisor in the Pentagon and his Navy service.[20]

















General Election 2006: Pennsylvania's 10th congressional district
Party
Candidate
Votes
%


Democratic

Chris Carney
110,115
52.9


Republican

Don Sherwood
97,862
47.1


11th Congressional district[edit]

















General Election 2006: Pennsylvania's 11th congressional district
Party
Candidate
Votes
%


Democratic

Paul E. Kanjorski
134,340
72.5


Republican
Joseph F. Leonardi
51,033
27.5


12th Congressional district[edit]

















General Election 2006: Pennsylvania's 12th congressional district
Party
Candidate
Votes
%


Democratic

John P. Murtha
123,472
60.8


Republican

Diana Irey
79,612
39.2


13th Congressional district[edit]

















General Election 2006: Pennsylvania's 13th congressional district
Party
Candidate
Votes
%


Democratic

Allyson Schwartz
147,368
66.1


Republican

Raj Peter Bhakta
75,492
33.8


14th Congressional district[edit]

















General Election 2006: Pennsylvania's 14th congressional district
Party
Candidate
Votes
%


Democratic

Mike Doyle
161,075
90.1


Green
Titus North
17,720
9.9


15th Congressional district[edit]






















General Election 2006: Pennsylvania's 15th congressional district
Party
Candidate
Votes
%


Republican

Charles W. Dent
106,153
53.6


Democratic
Charles Dertinger
86,186
43.5


Green
Greta Browne
5,802
2.9


16th Congressional district[edit]






















General Election 2006: Pennsylvania's 16th congressional district
Party
Candidate
Votes
%


Republican

Joseph R. Pitts
115,741
56.6


Democratic

Lois K. Herr
80,915
39.5


Independent
John A. Murphy
7,958
3.9


17th Congressional district[edit]

















General Election 2006: Pennsylvania's 17th congressional district
Party
Candidate
Votes
%


Democratic

Tim Holden
137,253
64.5


Republican
Matthew W. Wertz
75,455
33.5


18th Congressional district[edit]

















General Election 2006: Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district
Party
Candidate
Votes
%


Republican

Tim Murphy
144,632
58.7


Democratic
Chad Kluko
105,419
42.2


19th Congressional district[edit]






















General Election 2006: Pennsylvania's 19th congressional district
Party
Candidate
Votes
%


Republican

Todd Platts
142,512
64.0


Democratic
Philip J. Avillo, Jr.
74,625
33.5


Green
Derf W. Maitlnd
5,640
2.5


References[edit]




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  6. ^ Philadelphia Inquirer, Civilly, Gerlach and Murphy go over differences by Nancy Petersen, October 22, 2006


  7. ^ Daily Local, Gerlach and Murphy debate a range of issues, October 22, 2006 by Brian Fanelli, accessed October 23, 2006


  8. ^ Associated Press, Gerlach, Murphy spar over war, taxes, health care in Pa. debate


  9. ^ R. Jonathan Tuleya, Murphy, Gerlach clash over Iraq, October 28, 2006; accessed October 29, 2006


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  11. ^ William Bender, "Dems revamp lineup card: It's Sestak vs. Weldon; Lentz vs. Gannon", Delaware County Times, February 10, 2006


  12. ^ Greg Giroux (October 13, 2006). "Navy Vet Sestak Coming Closer to Sinking Weldon in Pa. 7". CQPolitics.com.


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  15. ^ John Shiffman, Mitch Lipka and Patrick Kerkstra (October 16, 2006). "Agents raid homes of Rep. Curt Weldon's daughter, close friend". The Philadelphia Inquirer.


  16. ^ Maryclaire Dale, "FBI raids home of Weldon's daughter, friend in influence probe" Archived 2006-10-27 at the Wayback Machine., Associated Press, October 16, 2006.


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  18. ^ Greg Giroux (October 17, 2006). "Weldon, Under Investigation, Is Now the Underdog in Pa. 7". CQPolitics.com.


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  20. ^ ab Greg Giroux (October 9, 2006). "Carney's Bid Turns Sherwood from Unopposed to Apologetic". CQPolitics.com.


  21. ^ Greg Giroux (May 17, 2006). "PA 10: Lingering Scandal Puts Sherwood on At-Risk List". CQPolitics.com.


  22. ^ Kimberly Hefling (May 17, 2006). "Four-term congressman survives close race". AP. Archived from the original on February 9, 2013. Retrieved May 17, 2006.


  23. ^ Greg Giroux (May 17, 2006). "PA House: Murphys Easily Win Primaries; Sherwood Hangs On". CQPolitics.com. Archived from the original on October 18, 2007. Retrieved May 13, 2015.


  24. ^ ab Jonathan E. Kaplan (May 3, 2006). "Santorum calls to shore up Sherwood". The Hill. Archived from the original on May 14, 2006. Retrieved May 3, 2006.


  25. ^ Borys Krawszeniuk (May 13, 2006). "Bush offers a pitch for ally Sherwood - uses recorded calls from president". Scranton Times-Tribune.




See also[edit]


  • United States congressional delegations from Pennsylvania

  • 108th United States Congress









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