Pennsylvania Senate, District 14

Pennsylvania's 14th State Senate district
Senator	Nick Miller D–Allentown
Population (2021)	267,292

Pennsylvania State Senate District 14 includes parts of Lehigh County and Northampton County. It is currently represented by Democrat Nick Miller. Prior to the current reapportionment plan it was a Luzerne County seat that was moved to the Lehigh Valley to reflect long-term population shifts.

District profile

The district includes the following areas:^[1]

Lehigh County

• Allentown (Part, Wards 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 19)
• Catasauqua
• Coplay
• Emmaus
• Fountain Hill
• Hanover Township
• Salisbury Township
• South Whitehall Township [PART, Districts 01, 02, 04, 05 and 07]
• Whitehall Township

Northampton County

• Allen Township
• Bath
• Bushkill Township
• Chapman
• East Allen Township
• Hanover Township
• Lehigh Township
• Moore Township
• North Catasauqua
• Northampton
• Walnutport

Senators

Representative[2]	Party	Years	Note
John Tod	Democratic-Republican	1815 – 1818	Pennsylvania State Representative from 1810 to 1813. Speaker of the Senate from 1815 to 1816. U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 8th congressional district from 1821 to 1823 and Pennsylvania's 13th congressional district from 1823 to 1824[3]
William Piper	Democratic-Republican	1817 – 1820	Pennsylvania State Senator for the 22nd district from 1821 to 1832. U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 7th congressional district from 1811 to 1813 and Pennsylvania's 8th congressional district from 1813 to 1817[4]
David Mann	Democratic-Republican	1821 – 1822	Pennsylvania State Senator for the 22nd district from 1823 to 1824[5]
William Andrew McIlvane	Democratic-Republican	1823 – 1826
Zephaniah Herbert	Democratic	1823 – 1828
Henry Logan	Democratic	1827 – 1830	Pennsylvania State Representative from 1818 to 1819. U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 11th congressional district from 1835 to 1839[6]
Ezra Blythe	Democratic	1829 – 1832
Henry Smyser	Democratic	1831 – 1834
David Middlecoff	Democratic	1833 – 1836
James McConkey	Anti-Masonic	1835 – 1836	Pennsylvania State Senator for the 2nd district from 1837 to 1838[7]
Jacob Cassat	Whig	1837 – 1838
David Fullerton	Anti-Masonic	1839 – 1840	U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 5th district from 1819 to 1820. Pennsylvania State Senator for the 15th district from 1827 to 1838[8]
Thomas C. Miller	Democratic	1837 – 1840
William R. Gorgas	Democratic	1841 – 1844
James Xavier McLanahan	Democratic	1841 – 1842	Pennsylvania State Senator for the 18th district from 1843 to 1844. U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 16th congressional district from 1849 to 1853. Chair of the House Judiciary Committee from 1851 to 1853[9]
Jesse C. Horton	Democratic	1845 – 1846	Pennsylvania State Senator for the 12th district from 1843 to 1844[10]
Benjamin Jordan	Whig	1845 – 1848
Robert Montgomery Frick	Whig	1849 – 1850
James W. Quiggle	Buchanan Democrat	1853 – 1856
Francis Jordan	Whig	1855 – 1856
Andrew Gregg Jr.	Republican	1855 – 1862
Henry Fetter	Democratic	1859 – 1860	Pennsylvania State Senator for the 13th district from 1857 to 1858[11]
Erasmus Darwin Crawford	Democratic	1859 – 1862
George Hough Bucher	Democratic	1863 – 1864	Pennsylvania State Senator for the 18th district from 1865 to 1866[12]
John Walls	Democratic	1865 – 1868
John B. Beck	Democratic	1867 – 1870
Lafayette Fitch	Republican	1871 – 1874
Peter J. Roebuck	Republican	1875 – 1888
Christian Shuman Kauffman	Republican	1879 – 1882
John M. Stehman	Republican	1883 – 1890
John S. Hoover	Democratic	1889 – 1890
Winfield S. Smith	Republican	1891 – 1894
Christian Charles Kauffman	Republican	1895 – 1896
Jeremiah Albert Stober	Republican	1899 – 1906
George Franklin Rowland	Democratic	1907 – 1908
Miles C. Rowland	Democratic	1909 – 1910
Elmer Warner	Republican	1915 – 1918
Wallace James Barnes	Republican	1919 – 1922
Jacob Eyster	Democratic-Republican	1921 – 1924
Harvey D. Huffman	Democratic	1923 – 1938
William D. Pethick	Republican	1931 – 1934
Montgomery F. Crowe	Republican	1939 – 1954
William Z. Scott	Republican	1955 – 1965
Martin L. Murray	Democratic	1969 – 1980	Pennsylvania State Representative for Luzerne County from 1945 to 1948. Pennsylvania State Senator for the 21st district from 1957 to 1964. President pro tempore of the Pennsylvania Senate from 1971 to 1980.[13]
Raphael J. Musto	Democratic	1983 – 2010	Pennsylvania State Representative for the 118th district from 1971 to 1980. U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 11th district from 1980 to 1981[14]
John Yudichak	Democratic	2011 – 2019	Pennsylvania State Representative for the 119th district from 1999 to 2010.[15] Changed party affiliation from Democrat to Independent and caucuses with the Republicans.
	Independent	2019 – 2023
Nick Miller	Democratic	2023 – present

Recent election results

PA Senate election, 2022

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Nick Miller	46,443	53.5
	Republican	Dean Browning	40,360	46.5
Total votes			86,803	100.0
	Democratic gain from Independent

PA Senate election, 2018

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	John Yudichak (incumbent)	51,521	100.0
Total votes			51,521	100.0
	Democratic hold

PA Senate election, 2014

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	John Yudichak (incumbent)	41,980	100.0
Total votes			41,980	100.0
	Democratic hold

PA Senate election, 2010

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	John Yudichak	37,466	55.6
	Republican	Stephen Urban	26,212	38.9
	Libertarian	Betsy Summers	3,748	5.5
Total votes			67,426	100.0
	Democratic hold

References

1. "2021 Final Reapportionment Plan" (PDF). Pennsylvania Department of State. Retrieved November 11, 2022.
2. "Pennsylvania State Senate - Senate Historical Biographies". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved May 27, 2019.
3. "Pennsylvania State Senate - John Tod Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved June 11, 2019.
4. "Pennsylvania State Senate - William Piper Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved June 11, 2019.
5. "Pennsylvania State Senate - David Mann Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved June 11, 2019.
6. "Pennsylvania Senate - Henry Logan Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved June 14, 2019.
7. "Pennsylvania State Senate - James McConkey Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved June 11, 2019.
8. "Pennsylvania State Senate - David Fullerton Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved June 11, 2019.
9. "Pennsylvania State Senate - James Xavier McLanahan". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved June 11, 2019.
10. "Pennsylvania State Senate - Jesse C Horton Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved June 11, 2019.
11. "Pennsylvania State Senate - Henry Fetter Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved June 11, 2019.
12. "Pennsylvania State Senate - George Hough Bucher Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved June 11, 2019.
13. "Pennsylvania Senate - Martin L Murray Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved June 15, 2019.
14. "Pennsylvania State Senate - Raphael John Musto". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved May 27, 2019.
15. "Pennsylvania State Senate - Senator John T. Yudichak". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved May 26, 2019.

• Cox, Harold (2004). "Legislatures - 1776-2004". Wilkes University Election Statistics Project. Wilkes University.