Amanda Cappelletti
float:right; border:1px solid #FFB81F; background-color: white; width: 250px; font-size: .9em; margin-bottom:0px;
} .infobox p { margin-bottom: 0; } .widget-row { display: inline-block; width: 100%; margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px; } .widget-row.heading { font-size: 1.2em; } .widget-row.value-only { text-align: center; background-color: grey; color: white; font-weight: bold; } .widget-row.value-only.white { background-color: #f9f9f9; } .widget-row.value-only.black { background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; } .widget-row.Democratic { background-color: #003388; color: white; font-weight: bold; } .widget-row.Republican { background-color: red; color: white; font-weight: bold; } .widget-row.Independent, .widget-row.Nonpartisan, .widget-row.Constitution { background-color: grey; color: white; font-weight: bold; } .widget-row.Libertarian { background-color: #f9d334; color: black; font-weight: bold; } .widget-row.Green { background-color: green; color: white; font-weight: bold; } .widget-key { width: 43%; display: inline-block; padding-left: 10px; vertical-align: top; font-weight: bold; } .widget-value { width: 57%; float: right; display: inline-block; padding-left: 10px; word-wrap: break-word; } .widget-img { width: 150px; display: block; margin: auto; } .clearfix { clear: both; }
Amanda Cappelletti (Democratic Party) is a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate, representing District 17. She assumed office on December 1, 2020. Her current term ends on November 30, 2028.
Cappelletti (Democratic Party) ran for re-election to the Pennsylvania State Senate to represent District 17. She won in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Biography
Amanda Cappelletti was born in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. Cappelletti earned a bachelor's degree in international business language and culture from Chestnut Hill College in 2010, and a master's degree in public health and J.D. from Temple University in 2017.[1][2] Her career experience includes working as a vice chair with the East Norriton Township Board of Supervisors, as a William Penn Fellow, and as a director of policy with Planned Parenthood. Cappelletti has been a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association.[1][2]
Committee assignments
Note: This membership information was last updated in September 2023. Ballotpedia completes biannual updates of committee membership. If you would like to send us an update, email us at:[email protected].
2023-2024
Cappelletti was assigned to the following committees:
- Communications & Technology Committee
- Senate Environmental Resources & Energy Committee
- Health & Human Services Committee
- Senate Judiciary Committee
- Senate State Government Committee, Chair
color: #337ab7, }
2021-2022
Cappelletti was assigned to the following committees:
- Senate Agriculture & Rural Affairs Committee
- Banking & Insurance Committee
- Community, Economic & Recreational Development Committee, Minority Chair
- Health & Human Services Committee
- Senate Judiciary Committee
color: #337ab7, }
Sponsored legislation
The following table lists bills this person sponsored as a legislator, according to BillTrack50 and sorted by action history. Bills are sorted by the date of their last action. The following list may not be comprehensive. To see all bills this legislator sponsored, click on the legislator's name in the title of the table.
Elections
2024
See also: Pennsylvania State Senate elections, 2024
General election
General election for Pennsylvania State Senate District 17
Incumbent Amanda Cappelletti defeated Greg Harris in the general election for Pennsylvania State Senate District 17 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Amanda Cappelletti (D) | 68.3 | 100,630 |
| Greg Harris (R) | 31.5 | 46,514 | ||
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.2 | 294 | ||
| Total votes: 147,438 | |||
 = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Pennsylvania State Senate District 17
Incumbent Amanda Cappelletti advanced from the Democratic primary for Pennsylvania State Senate District 17 on April 23, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Amanda Cappelletti | 99.2 | 31,731 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.8 | 265 | ||
| Total votes: 31,996 | |||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Republican primary election
Republican primary for Pennsylvania State Senate District 17
Greg Harris advanced from the Republican primary for Pennsylvania State Senate District 17 on April 23, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Greg Harris (Write-in) | 71.4 | 2,337 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 28.6 | 935 | ||
| Total votes: 3,272 | |||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Campaign finance
Endorsements
.ballot-measure-endorsements p {
display: inline;
}
.ballot-measure-endorsements td {
width: 35% !important;
}
.endorsements-header {
margin-top: 10px !important;
margin-bottom: 5px !important;
}
.ballot-measure-endorsements ul {
margin-top: 0 !important;
margin-bottom: 0 !important;
}
.split-cols-bm {
columns: 2;
-webkit-columns: 2;
-moz-columns: 2;
}
@media screen and (max-width: 792px) {
.split-cols-bm {
columns: 1;
-webkit-columns: 1;
-moz-columns: 1;
}
}
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Cappelletti in this election.
2020
See also: Pennsylvania State Senate elections, 2020
General election
General election for Pennsylvania State Senate District 17
Amanda Cappelletti defeated Ellen Fisher in the general election for Pennsylvania State Senate District 17 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Amanda Cappelletti (D) | 65.9 | 105,840 |
 | Ellen Fisher (R) | 34.1 | 54,750 | |
| Total votes: 160,590 | |||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Pennsylvania State Senate District 17
Amanda Cappelletti defeated incumbent Daylin Leach in the Democratic primary for Pennsylvania State Senate District 17 on June 2, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Amanda Cappelletti | 65.4 | 33,857 |
 | Daylin Leach | 34.6 | 17,950 | |
| Total votes: 51,807 | |||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Elvira Berry (D)
- Parthenia Izzard (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for Pennsylvania State Senate District 17
Ellen Fisher advanced from the Republican primary for Pennsylvania State Senate District 17 on June 2, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Ellen Fisher | 100.0 | 16,091 |
| Total votes: 16,091 | |||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Campaign finance
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Amanda Cappelletti did not complete Ballotpedia's 2024 Candidate Connection survey.
2020
Amanda Cappelletti completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Cappelletti's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
| Collapse all
I am the Vice Chair of the East Norriton Board of Supervisors, having stepped up to run after the 2016 election and wanting to do more for my community. As an attorney with a Master's in Public Health, I have worked in Harrisburg to advance progressive policy. I worked with Representative Donna Bullock and as a Fellow for the ACLU of Pennsylvania. Through the William Penn Fellowship, I worked as an advocate for children at the Office of Child Development and Early Learning, and then at the Department of Human Services as a policy specialist tracking legislation to assess implementation. Most recently, I served as the Director of Policy for Planned Parenthood advocating for proactive reproductive legislation.
- I am a progressive with the experience and passion to represent the people of my district.
- I am running because my district currently has no representation. I am willing to work with other legislatures to push good policy through the Senate and am ready to provide the representation that my district deserves.
- I am running to bring a fresh voice to the Senate and represent the new generation of leadership, while bringing a background of advocacy to the legislature.
My public policy priority is the right and access to healthcare. The Medicaid waiver processes can be streamlined to reduce wait times, and legislation can be passed to enshrine essential Affordable Care Act protections into state law: protecting individuals with pre-existing conditions, requiring essential health benefits coverage, and more. Regardless of what happens in our nation's capital, we must protect our basic human right to healthcare here in Pennsylvania. This means that healthcare needs to be affordable. I am also passionate about Education and Environmental policy. Pennsylvania must invest in affordable, high quality early care and education. I would like to work to support access to quality education on all levels.
Note: Ballotpedia reserves the right to edit Candidate Connection survey responses. Any edits made by Ballotpedia will be clearly marked with [brackets] for the public. If the candidate disagrees with an edit, he or she may request the full removal of the survey response from Ballotpedia.org. Ballotpedia does not edit or correct typographical errors unless the candidate's campaign requests it.
Campaign finance summary
Note: The finance data shown here comes from the disclosures required of candidates and parties. Depending on the election or state, this may represent only a portion of all the funds spent on their behalf. Satellite spending groups may or may not have expended funds related to the candidate or politician on whose page you are reading this disclaimer. Campaign finance data from elections may be incomplete. For elections to federal offices, complete data can be found at the FEC website. Click here for more on federal campaign finance law and here for more on state campaign finance law.
Scorecards
A scorecard evaluates a legislator’s voting record. Its purpose is to inform voters about the legislator’s political positions. Because scorecards have varying purposes and methodologies, each report should be considered on its own merits. For example, an advocacy group’s scorecard may assess a legislator’s voting record on one issue while a state newspaper’s scorecard may evaluate the voting record in its entirety.
Ballotpedia is in the process of developing an encyclopedic list of published scorecards. Some states have a limited number of available scorecards or scorecards produced only by select groups. It is Ballotpedia’s goal to incorporate all available scorecards regardless of ideology or number.
Click here for an overview of legislative scorecards in all 50 states. To contribute to the list of Pennsylvania scorecards, email suggestions to [email protected].
2024
| To view all the scorecards we found for this legislator in 2024, click [show]. |
|---|
|
In 2024, the Pennsylvania State Legislature was in session from January 2 to November 14.
|
2023
| To view all the scorecards we found for this legislator in 2023, click [show]. |
|---|
|
In 2023, the Pennsylvania State Legislature was in session from January 3 to December 13.
|
2022
| To view all the scorecards we found for this legislator in 2022, click [show]. |
|---|
|
In 2022, the Pennsylvania State Legislature was in session from January 4 to November 30.
|
2021
| To view all the scorecards we found for this legislator in 2021, click [show]. |
|---|
|
In 2021, the Pennsylvania State Legislature was in session from January 5 to December 31.
|
See also
2024 Elections
External links
.contact_entity {font-size: 1.5em ;margin-top: 0.6em; margin-bottom: 0em;margin-right: 0.5em;}
.contact_office { margin-top: 0.3em; margin-bottom: 0em;margin-right: 0.5em;}
.external_links_table { width: auto !important; }
@media (max-width:600px) {
.contact_entity {font-size: 1.0em ;margin-top: 0.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-right: 0.5em;}
.contact_office { font-size: 0.8 em; margin-top: 0.6em; margin-bottom: 0em;margin-right: 0.5em;}
}
|
Candidate Pennsylvania State Senate District 17 |
Officeholder Pennsylvania State Senate District 17 |
Personal |
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on April 21, 2020
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 LinkedIn, "Amanda Cappelletti," accessed April 28, 2020
| Political offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Daylin Leach (D) |
Pennsylvania State Senate District 17 2020-Present |
Succeeded by - |
