page_title: Mary Gay Scanlon
section_title: Election results
hierarchical_section_title: Mary Gay Scanlon / U.S. House of Representatives / Elections / Election results
caption_attribution_description: English: US Representative Mary Gay Scanlon (D-Pennsylvania) is sworn into office by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on January 3, 2019
context_page_description: Mary Gay Scanlon is an American attorney and politician. She is a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Pennsylvania's 5th congressional district, since being sworn into office on January 3, 2019. The district encompasses all of Delaware County and part of South Philadelphia. She was sworn in as the member representing Pennsylvania's 7th congressional district on November 13, 2018. She was elected to both positions on November 6, 2018. That day, she ran in a special election in the old 7th to serve out the term of her predecessor, Pat Meehan and in a regular election for a full two-year term in the new 5th. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
context_section_description: On November 6, Scanlon defeated Kim in both the special and regular elections. The margin was much closer in the special election for the 7th District because it took place under the old district lines that had been thrown out by the state supreme court earlier in the year.
  She was sworn into her 7th district seat on November 13, 2018, in a ceremony attended by Hawa Salih, a Sudanese human rights activist whom Scanlon helped gain asylum in the U.S. She was one of four Democratic women elected to Congress from Pennsylvania in 2018. The others were Madeleine Dean, Chrissy Houlahan and Susan Wild. The state's congressional delegation had previously been all male. 
  She transferred to the 5th District in January 2019, with two months more seniority than the other freshmen elected in 2018.
caption: Scanlon with her family being sworn in by Speaker Nancy Pelosi
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