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The 2000 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, 2000.^[1]

General election

1st Congressional district

General Election 2000: Pennsylvania's 1st congressional district
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Bob Brady	149,621	88.3
	Republican	Steven N. Kush	19,920	11.7

2nd Congressional District

General Election 2000: Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Chaka Fattah	180,021	98.0
	Libertarian	Kenneth V. Krawchuk	3,673	2.0

3rd Congressional district

General Election 2000: Pennsylvania's 3rd congressional district
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Robert A. Borski	130,528	68.7
	Republican	Charles F. Dougherty	59,343	31.3

4th Congressional district

Prior to the 2000 election, Democratic Congressman Ron Klink vacated Pennsylvania's 4th congressional district to challenge Republican Rick Santorum for the United States Senate. Pennsylvania State Senator Melissa Hart won the Republican nomination unopposed. State Representative Terry Van Horne won an 8-way primary election to win the Democratic nomination. Van Horne's victory was He defeated the state and national party's preferred candidate, Matthew Mangino, the Lawrence County, Pennsylvania district attorney.^[2] Shortly after Van Horne's victory, the National Republican Congressional Committee began re-circulating 1994 newspaper accounts alleging that he had been overheard using a racial slur in the halls of the Pennsylvania State Capitol to describe fellow State Representative Dwight E. Evans, who was opposing reduction in welfare.^[3]^[4]

The race was expected to be a close one, with accusations of illegal phone calls, stolen signs, and misleading mailers sent to constituents.^[5] Surrogates for both candidates, funded with soft money, aired television advertisements throughout the Western Pennsylvania district.^[6] National dignitaries, including Republican Senator John McCain and Democratic Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy of Rhode Island visited the area to advocate for their party's candidates.^[5] In the end, Hart won the district with 59% of the vote.

General Election 2000: Pennsylvania's 4th congressional district
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Melissa Hart	145,390	59.0
	Democratic	Terry E. Van Horne	100,995	41.0

5th Congressional district

General Election 2000: Pennsylvania's 5th congressional district
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	John E. Peterson	147,570	82.7
	Libertarian	Thomas A. Martin	17,020	9.5
	Green	William M. Belitskus	13,857	7.8

6th Congressional district

General Election 2000: Pennsylvania's 6th congressional district
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Tim Holden	140,084	66.3
	Republican	Thomas G. Kopel	71,227	33.7

7th Congressional district

General Election 2000: Pennsylvania's 7th congressional district
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Curt Weldon	172,569	64.8
	Democratic	Peter A. Lennon	93,687	35.2

8th Congressional district

General Election 2000: Pennsylvania's 8th congressional district
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Jim Greenwood	154,090	59.2
	Democratic	Ronald L. Strouse	100,617	38.7
	Reform	Phillip C. Holmen	5,394	2.1

9th Congressional district

General Election 2000: Pennsylvania's 9th congressional district
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Bud Shuster	184,401	100.0

10th Congressional district

General Election 2000: Pennsylvania's 10th congressional district
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Don Sherwood	124,830	52.6
	Democratic	Pat Casey	112,580	47.4

11th Congressional district

General Election 2000: Pennsylvania's 11th congressional district
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Paul E. Kanjorski	131,948	66.4
	Republican	Stephen A. Urban	66,699	33.6

12th Congressional district

General Election 2000: Pennsylvania's 12th congressional district
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	John P. Murtha	145,538	70.8
	Republican	Bill Choby	56,575	27.5
	Reform	James N. O'Neil	3,324	1.6

13th Congressional district

[General Election 2000: Pennsylvania's 13th congressional district
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Joseph M. Hoeffel	146,026	52.8
	Republican	Stewart J. Greenleaf	126,501	45.7
	Libertarian	Ken Cavanaugh	4,224	1.5

14th Congressional district

[General Election 2000: Pennsylvania's 14th congressional district
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	William J. Coyne	147,533	100.0

15th Congressional district

General Election 2000: Pennsylvania's 15th congressional district
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Pat Toomey	118,307	53.3
	Democratic	Ed O'Brien	103,864	46.8

16th Congressional district

General Election 2000: Pennsylvania's 16th congressional district
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Joseph R. Pitts	162,403	66.9
	Democratic	Bob Yorczyk	80,177	33.1

17th Congressional district

General Election 2000: Pennsylvania's 17th congressional district
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	George W. Gekas	166,236	71.5
	Democratic	Leslye Hess Herrmann	66,190	28.5

18th Congressional district

General Election 2000: Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Michael F. Doyle	156,131	69.4
	Republican	Craig C. Stevens	68,798	30.6

19th Congressional district

General Election 2000: Pennsylvania's 19th congressional district
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Todd Platts	168,722	72.6
	Democratic	Jeff Sanders	61,538	26.5
	Constitution	Michael L. Paoletta	2,234	1.0

20th Congressional district

General Election 2000: Pennsylvania's 20th congressional district
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Frank Mascara	145,131	64.4
	Republican	Ronald J. Davis	80,312	35.6

21st Congressional district

General Election 2000: Pennsylvania's 21st congressional district
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Phil English	135,164	60.8
	Democratic	Marc A. Flitter	87,018	39.2

References

↑ "Representative in Congress, 2000 General Election". Commonwealth of PA - Elections Information. Pennsylvania Department of State. 2004.
↑ Ayred, Jr., B. Drummond (2000-04-06). "Primaries in Pennsylvania Put Focus on Congressional Races". The New York Times.
↑ Bair, Jeffrey (2000-04-06). "GOP makes issue out of 1994 racial slur". Pittsburgh Post Gazette (PG Publishing Co.).
↑ Norman, Tony (2000-04-11). "A race to play the race card". Pittsburgh Post Gazette (PG Publishing Co.).
1 2 Roddy, Dennis (2000-11-05). "Election 2000: It's more fun when every vote counts". Pittsburgh Post Gazette (PG Publishing Co.).
↑ Roddy, Dennis (2000-09-20). "Hart, Van Horne debate 'soft money'". Pittsburgh Post Gazette (PG Publishing Co.).

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