2000 Pennsylvania Senate election

2000 Pennsylvania Senate election

← 1998 November 7, 2000 2002 →

All odd-numbered seats in the Pennsylvania State Senate
26 seats needed for a majority
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Robert Jubelirer Bob Mellow
Party Republican Democratic
Leader's seat 30th district 22nd District
Seats before 30 20
Seats after 30 20
Seat change Steady Steady

Results
     Democratic hold      Democratic gain
     Republican hold      Republican gain
     No election

President Pro Tempore before election

Robert Jubelirer
Republican

President Pro Tempore

Robert Jubelirer
Republican

Elections for the Pennsylvania State Senate were held on November 7, 2000, with even-numbered districts being contested.[1] State Senators are elected for four-year terms, with half of the Senate seats up for a vote every two years. The term of office for those elected in 2000 ran from January 3, 2001[2] until November 30, 2004.[3] Necessary primary elections were held on April 27, 2004.[4]

The make-up of the senate remained the same following the 2000 elections. Democratic Mike Stack defeated incumbent Republican Frank A. Salvatore in the 5th senatorial district. Republican Donald C. White defeated the democratic nominee to succeed the retiring Patrick J. Stapleton, Jr. in the 41st senatorial district. Democratic Sean Logan succeeded the retiring Albert V. Belan.

Republican Bill Slocum remained on the ballot in the 25th senatorial district, even after his resignation from the senate on June 1, 2000. Slocum pleaded guilty and spent a month in federal prison for filing false reports to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and discharging raw sewage into Brokenstraw Creek while he was a sewage plant manager in Youngsville, Pennsylvania.[5] The local Republican party supported the eventual winner, Joseph B. Scarnati III, who ran as an independent and changed his party registration to Republican after his election.[6]

Affiliation Members
  Republican Party 30
  Democratic Party 20
 Total
50
  1. ^ "2000 General Election". Commonwealth of PA - Elections Information. Pennsylvania Department of State. 2004. Archived from the original on November 27, 2008. Retrieved June 1, 2008.
  2. ^ "Legislative Journal for January 2, 2001" (PDF). Commonwealth of PA. Legislative Data Processing Center. 2004. Retrieved June 8, 2008.
  3. ^ "Legislative Journal for November 30, 2004" (PDF). Commonwealth of PA. Legislative Data Processing Center. 2004. Retrieved June 8, 2008.
  4. ^ "Senator in the General Assembly, 2000 General Primary". Commonwealth of PA - Elections Information. Pennsylvania Department of State. 2004. Retrieved May 16, 2008.
  5. ^ "Senator gets jail time for dumping sewage". web.archive.org. Retrieved July 1, 2024.
  6. ^ Cox, Harold. "Pennsylvania Senate - 2001-2002" (PDF). Retrieved June 8, 2008.