Pennsylvania's 15th congressional district

Pennsylvania's 15th congressional district

Infobox U.S. congressional district
state = Pennsylvania
district number = 15


image width = 350
image caption =
representative = Charlie Dent
party = Republican
english area =
metric area =
percent urban =
percent rural =
population = 646,300
population year = 2000
median income = 45,330
percent white = 89.5
percent black = 3.1
percent asian = 1.7
percent native american = 0.2
percent hispanic = 7.9
percent other race = 0.2
percent blue collar =
percent white collar =
percent gray collar =
cpvi = D + 2

Pennsylvania's Congressional Fifteenth District is located in eastern Pennsylvania, comprising all of Northampton County, and parts of Berks, Lehigh, and Montgomery Counties.

The district includes the Lehigh Valley, Indian Valley and Upper Perkiomen Valley regions.

U.S. Congressman Charles Dent has represented the district since 2004.

Representatives

Election results

2004 - United States House of RepresentativesCharlie Dent (R)- 170,634 - 58.6%Joe Driscoll (D)- 114,646 - 39.4%Richard Piotrowski (Lib) - 3,660 - 1.3%Greta Browne (Grn) - 2,194 - 0.7%

2006 - United States House of RepresentativesCharlie Dent (R)- 106,261 - 53.6%Charles Dertinger (D)- 86,186 - 43.5%Greta Browne (Grn) - 5,803 - 2.9%


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