Pennsylvania Senate, District 1

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

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

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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3. "RODMAN, William, (1757-1824)". www.bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved September 29, 2019.
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8. Simpson, Henry (1859). The lives of eminent Philadelphians, now deceased. Philadelphia: William Brotherhead. pp. 808–819. Retrieved September 29, 2019.
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14. "RANDALL, Samuel Jackson, (1828-1890)". www.bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved September 29, 2019.
15. "WILSON, Stephen Fowler, (1821-1897)". www.bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved September 29, 2019.
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18. Glassman, Susan; Bolt, Eugene (1990). "Wagner Free Institute of Science". National Register of Historic Places.
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.
20. Martin, Mart (2001). The Almanac of Women and Minorities in Politics 2002. New York: Routledge. p. 1982. ISBN 0-8133-9817-7. Retrieved January 5, 2019.
21. Cox, Harold (2004). "Pennsylvania Senate - 1977-1978" (PDF). Wilkes University Election Statistics Project. Wilkes University.
22. Lounsberry, Emilie; McCoy, Craig R. (July 15, 2009). "Disgraced Fumo gets 55 months in jail". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Archived from the original on July 19, 2009. Retrieved November 11, 2011.
23. "2008 General Election Senator in the General Assembly". Pennsylvania Department of State. 2004. Archived from the original on February 6, 2012.

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