 Democratic candidates who planned to run included former Lehigh County Democratic Committee Chairman and 2012 nominee Rick Daugherty, Laura Quick, and David A. Clark.Archie Follweiler, a former Kutztown Borough councilman and state house candidate in 2006, filed paperwork with the FEC to run as a Democrat in June 2015, but had not made any announcement on whether he would run.The incumbent was Republican Charlie Dent, who had represented the district since 2005.