Pennsylvania House of Representatives, District 17

The 17th Pennsylvania House of Representatives District is located in northwestern Pennsylvania and has been represented by Republican Parke Wentling since 2015.

Current Parke Wentling (R–Greenville)
Demographics96% White
2.1% Black
1% Hispanic
Population (2011)
 • Citizens of voting age		62,402
48,774

District profile

The 17th District comprises parts of Crawford County, Erie County, Lawrence County, and Mercer County. It is home to Westminster College (Pennsylvania). The following areas are included in the 17th District:

Representatives
Representative Party Years District home Note
Prior to 1969, seats were apportioned by county.
Eugene F. ScanlonDemocrat1969 – 1974
Leonard E. SweeneyDemocrat1975Convicted of mail fraud and expelled on August 27, 1975[1]
Robert P. RavenstahlDemocrat1975 – 1978
Thomas J. Murphy, Jr.Democrat1979 – 1982Moved to the 20th District
Robert D. RobbinsRepublican1983 – 1990GreenvilleElected to the Pennsylvania Senate
David Orr KingRepublican1991 – 1996
Rod E. WiltRepublican1997 – 2006
Michele BrooksRepublican2007 – 2014Jamestown
Parke WentlingRepublican2015 – presentGreenvilleIncumbent

Recent election results
PA House election, 2010:
Pennsylvania House, District 17
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Republican Michele Brooks 15,563 100.0
Margin of victory 15,563 100
Turnout 15,563 100
PA House election, 2012:
Pennsylvania House, District 17
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Republican Michele Brooks 19,904 100.0
Margin of victory 19,904 100
Turnout 19,904 100
PA House election, 2014:
Pennsylvania House, District 17
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Republican Parke Wentling 11,197 67.32
Democratic Wayne Hanson 5,435 32.68
Margin of victory 5,762 34.64
Turnout 16,632 100
PA House election, 2016:
Pennsylvania House, District 17
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Republican Parke Wentling 18,937 71.27
Democratic Wayne Hanson 7,633 28.73
Margin of victory 11,304 42.54 7.9
Turnout 26,570 100
gollark: I saw that yesterday and SIMILARLY complained that it's not well-defined.
gollark: So if you have an object with the left half in shadow or something, even though a camera sees each side as having *wildly* different colors, you'll just think "oh, that's yellow" or something like that.
gollark: Human color processing isn't measuring something like "what amounts of reddish/greenish/blueish light is falling on this set of cones", it's trying to work out "what object is this and what are the lighting conditions".
gollark: Besides that, you don't perceive colors that way.
gollark: The problem is that what hex code you get out of a picture depends entirely on stuff like lighting and probably camera calibration.

References
  • Cox, Harold (2004). "Legislatures - 1776-2004". Wilkes University Election Statistics Project. Wilkes University.
  1. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=a-QNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=iG0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=6029,169416&dq=frank+mazzei&hl=en


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