United States Senate election in Pennsylvania, 2004

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November 2, 2004

→ 2010



Nominee	Arlen Spector	Joe Hoeffel
Party	Republican	Democratic
Popular vote	2,925,080	2,334,126
Percentage	52.6%	41.9%

County results

U.S. Senator before election

Arlen Specter
Republican

Elected U.S. Senator

Arlen Specter
Republican

The 2004 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania was held on November 2, 2004. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Arlen Specter won re-election to a fifth term.

Democrats had difficulty recruiting top tier candidates against the popular Specter. Among the Democrats to decline to run for the nomination were Treasurer (and former Republican) Barbara Hafer, Public Utilities Commissioner John Hanger, real estate mogul Howard Hanna, State Representative (and also former Republican) John Lawless, and State Senator (and future Congresswoman) Allyson Schwartz.

Congressman Hoeffel ended up running unopposed for the Democratic nomination. Software businessman Charlie Crystle was considered a strong possible candidate, but he dropped out before the election.

U.S. Representative
Pat Toomey

U.S. Senator
Arlen Specter

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