Participation measured against the same-year citizen voting-age population. Audited cycles count total general-election participants — ballots or participating voters, not presidential candidate votes.
2020–20243 cycles · 3 audited
2024 turnout
80.6%4,723 participants ÷ 5,860 CVAP
2020→2022 drop-off
+16.6 ptsVolatile
Drop-off vs state
-0.4 ptsPositive means a larger decline than the statewide pattern
Mechanical 2026
64.0%Recent-cycle and two-cycle persistence scenarios; not a forecast
Participation by cycle
Presidential Midterm
0%20%40%60%80%100%
67.6%
202020222024
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Cycle
Participants
CVAP
Turnout
Series
Quality
4,723
5,860 ± 482
80.6%
Audited
E/A
2022Mid
3,920
5,796 ± 477
67.6%
Audited
E/A
4,836
5,743 ± 493
84.2%
Audited
E/A
Sources and methods
2024: numerator source 160, denominator source 157; estimated total ballots; preferred-county:block-reference-presidential-or-cvap-weight:v2; allocation share 100.0%; series 323/229.
2022: numerator source 160, denominator source 157; estimated total ballots; preferred-county:block-reference-presidential-or-cvap-weight:v2; allocation share 100.0%; series 322/184.
2020: numerator source 160, denominator source 157; estimated total ballots; preferred-county:block-reference-presidential-or-cvap-weight:v2; allocation share 100.0%; series 321/4.
presidential history
Party record book
Elkins Park, PA · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
2004–2024 · 6 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
86.0%
4,130 votes · D+72.8
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 84.3%
Republican
George W. Bush2004
21.2%
840 votes · D+57.0
Runner-up · Mitt Romney, 2012 · 18.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
4,130votes
86.0% of the vote · D+72.8
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 3,945 votes
Republican
George W. Bush2004
840votes
21.2% of the vote · D+57.0
Runner-up · Mitt Romney, 2012 · 803 votes
Best relative to the U.S.
This Place’s margin against the national margin in the same election — positive when it leaned toward the party more than the country did.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
+70.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+68.9 · U.S. R+1.5
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · +68.5 pts
Republican
John McCain2008
−55.5pts R vs U.S.
Place D+62.7 · U.S. D+7.3
Runner-up · Mitt Romney, 2012 · −57.9 pts
U.S. House elections · 2 House
U.S. House
Each row shows U.S. House votes counted inside this Place. “Vote lead” is the local lead here, not necessarily the winner of the full contest.
Elkins Park · which candidate this place backed in each party’s presidential nominating contest, cycle by cycle. A primary is a contest inside one party, so it has no Democratic–Republican margin and is not part of the general-election record above.
Akashic reports votes cast, not delegates awarded. The two can disagree: Clinton led the 2008 national primary popular vote by less than half a point and did not win the nomination.
Primary returns are published at county grain. The figures below are Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, the county containing Elkins Park — Elkins Park’s own primary vote sits inside those totals and is not separately reported.
Presidential nominating contests in Elkins Park, by party and cycle.
○no contest record — Akashic holds no result for that party and cycle here. It is not a claim that no contest was held. Telling apart a contest that was cancelled, one that went uncontested, and one simply not yet ingested needs a nominating-contest calendar, which is a separate ingest from results and does not exist yet.
Republican presidential primaries are not yet ingested — the Republican series runs from 1856 and is in scope. The row is kept so its absence is visible: a Democratic-only panel would otherwise read as though no one else held a contest.
Akashic carries 10 states for 2012 and 3 states for 2024. Cycles in which an incumbent president seeks renomination are thin by nature — few states run a contested primary — so a sparse column is politics, not a hole in the record.
County returns carry a leader and a lead over the runner-up, and nothing more. The full candidate field with vote shares is published at state grain — follow a cycle above to the state contest for it.
Elkins Park sits along the old Reading Railroad's Jenkintown line, where its historically Jewish community and proximity to Philadelphia have shaped a reliably high-turnout, college-educated electorate that leans heavily in countywide races.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 72.8 points in 2020. Between 2020 and 2024 the city moved 3.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 68.9 points.
A population of 7,213, a 57% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $129,852 describe the city. The city's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Wyndmoor and Penn Wynne.
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Political twins — cities
The cities whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
In 2024, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania voted Democratic by 68.9 points (D+68.9), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 4,694 votes cast, 3,945 went Democratic and 709 went Republican.
How many people live in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania?
Elkins Park, Pennsylvania has a population of 7,213 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania?
Median household income in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania is $129,852 — above the national median of $80,734. The Pennsylvania state median is $77,971.
What is the political history of Elkins Park, Pennsylvania?
Akashic tracks 6 presidential elections in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania from 2004 to 2024. Of those, 6 went Democratic and 0 went Republican.
