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United States House elections in Pennsylvania (May 15, 2018 Democratic primaries)

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2018 U.S. House Elections in Pennsylvania

Primary Date
May 15, 2018
GOP primaries • Democratic primaries

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2018 U.S. Senate Elections

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The 2018 U.S. House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania took place on November 6, 2018. Voters elected 18 candidates to serve in the U.S. House, one from each of the state's 18 congressional districts. This page focuses on the Democratic Party primary election taking place in each district on May 15, 2018.


Candidates

See also: Statistics on U.S. Congress candidates, 2018

District 1

Democratic Party Democratic primary candidates

District 2

Democratic Party Democratic primary candidates

District 3

Democratic Party Democratic primary candidates

District 4

Democratic Party Democratic primary candidates


Did not make the ballot:

District 5

Democratic Party Democratic primary candidates


Did not make the ballot:


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District 6

Democratic Party Democratic primary candidates

District 7

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District 8

Democratic Party Democratic primary candidates

District 9

Democratic Party Democratic primary candidates


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District 10

Democratic Party Democratic primary candidates


Did not make the ballot:

District 11

Democratic Party Democratic primary candidates

District 12

Democratic Party Democratic primary candidates

District 13

Democratic Party Democratic primary candidates

District 14

Democratic Party Democratic primary candidates


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District 15

Democratic Party Democratic primary candidates

District 16

Democratic Party Democratic primary candidates

District 17

Democratic Party Democratic primary candidates


Did not make the ballot:

District 18

Democratic Party Democratic primary candidates

Pivot Counties

See also: Pivot Counties by state

Three of 67 Pennsylvania counties—4.5 percent—are pivot counties. These are counties that voted for Barack Obama (D) in 2008 and 2012 and for Donald Trump (R) in 2016. Altogether, the nation had 206 pivot counties, with most being concentrated in upper midwestern and northeastern states.

Counties won by Trump in 2016 and Obama in 2012 and 2008
County Trump margin of victory in 2016 Obama margin of victory in 2012 Obama margin of victory in 2008
Erie County, Pennsylvania 1.56% 16.03% 19.88%
Luzerne County, Pennsylvania 19.31% 4.81% 8.41%
Northampton County, Pennsylvania 3.78% 4.71% 12.30%

In the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump (R) won Pennsylvania with 48.2 percent of the vote. Hillary Clinton (D) received 47.5 percent. In presidential elections between 1900 and 2016, Pennsylvania cast votes for the winning presidential candidate 76.7 percent of the time. In that same time frame, Pennsylvania supported Republican candidates for president more often than Democratic candidates, 53.3 to 43.3 percent. The state, however, favored Democrats in every presidential election between 2000 and 2012, but voted Republican in 2016.

Presidential results by legislative district

The following table details results of the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections by state House districts in Pennsylvania. Click [show] to expand the table. The "Obama," "Romney," "Clinton," and "Trump" columns describe the percent of the vote each presidential candidate received in the district. The "2012 Margin" and "2016 Margin" columns describe the margin of victory between the two presidential candidates in those years. The "Party Control" column notes which party held that seat heading into the 2018 general election. Data on the results of the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections broken down by state legislative districts was compiled by Daily Kos.[1][2]

In 2012, Barack Obama (D) won 89 out of 203 state House districts in Pennsylvania with an average margin of victory of 37.4 points. In 2016, Hillary Clinton (D) won 84 out of 203 state House districts in Pennsylvania with an average margin of victory of 37.3 points. Clinton won 19 districts controlled by Republicans heading into the 2018 elections.
In 2012, Mitt Romney (R) won 114 out of 203 state House districts in Pennsylvania with an average margin of victory of 20 points. In 2016, Donald Trump (R) won 119 out of 203 state House districts in Pennsylvania with an average margin of victory of 28.2 points. Trump won 17 districts controlled by Democrats heading into the 2018 elections.

See also

Footnotes



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