State Sen. David Argall won his first full term to represent the 29th State Senate District in Tuesday's election.

The district includes Lynn, Heidelberg and Washington townships and the Borough of Slatington.

Redistricting plans overturned by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court earlier this year would have put those areas in state Sen. Pat Browne's district.

Argall, returns to the Senate after serving nearly four years in that post.

He was elected in a March 2009 special election to replace the late state Sen. James Rhoades, who was killed in an auto accident prior to the 2008 election but was still re-elected.

After getting more than 60 percent of the vote in the 2009 special election, and after facing a tough primary challenge from Brian Rich, Argall beat Tim Seip, a Washington Township, Schuylkill County, Democrat, in the election.

Unofficial totals show Argall, a Rush Township Republican, with a margin of 56 percent to 44 percent for Seip.

The Lehigh County portion of the district gave Argall more than 60 percent of the vote.

In the current Senate, Argall serves as vice chairman of the Senate Urban Affairs and Housing Committee and as a member of the Senate Appropriations, Aging and Youth, Community, Economic and Recreational Development and Inter-Governmental Operations Committees.

He also serves on the Local and School Property Tax Relief Caucus and is a member of the Joint Legislative Air and Water Pollution Control and Conservation Committee.

Argall was a longtime state representative before being elected to the Senate.

He advocated real property tax relief as a priority for the next four years.