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.
2022–20242 cycles · 2 audited
2024 turnout
92.3%3,709 participants ÷ 4,018 CVAP
Participation by cycle
Presidential Midterm
0%20%40%60%80%100%
83.3%
20222024
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Cycle
Participants
CVAP
Turnout
Series
Quality
3,709
4,018 ± 382
92.3%
Audited
E/A
2022Mid
3,034
3,643 ± 370
83.3%
Audited
E/D
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.
presidential history
Party record book
Merion Station, 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
81.5%
3,034 votes · D+63.4
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 79.4%
Republican
George W. Bush2004
29.0%
953 votes · D+42.0
Runner-up · Mitt Romney, 2012 · 27.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
3,034votes
81.5% of the vote · D+63.4
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 2,871 votes
Republican
George W. Bush2004
953votes
29.0% of the vote · D+42.0
Runner-up · Mitt Romney, 2012 · 943 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
Joe Biden2020
+59.0pts D vs U.S.
Place D+63.4 · U.S. D+4.5
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · +58.7 pts
Republican
Mitt Romney2012
−39.4pts R vs U.S.
Place D+43.3 · U.S. D+3.9
Runner-up · John McCain, 2008 · −41.9 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.
Merion Station · 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 Merion Station — Merion Station’s own primary vote sits inside those totals and is not separately reported.
Presidential nominating contests in Merion Station, 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.
Merion Station sits in the affluent Main Line corridor of Lower Merion Township, where high educational attainment and dense civic engagement push voter participation well above state averages in both presidential and off-cycle elections.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 63.4 points in 2020. Between 2020 and 2024 the city moved 7.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 56.2 points.
A population of 5,788, a 83% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $250,001 describe the city. The city's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Piedmont and Kentfield.
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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.
How did Merion Station, Pennsylvania vote in 2024?
In 2024, Merion Station, Pennsylvania voted Democratic by 56.2 points (D+56.2), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 3,690 votes cast, 2,871 went Democratic and 797 went Republican.
How many people live in Merion Station, Pennsylvania?
Merion Station, Pennsylvania has a population of 5,788 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Merion Station, Pennsylvania?
Median household income in Merion Station, Pennsylvania is $250,001 — above the national median of $80,734. The Pennsylvania state median is $77,971.
What is the political history of Merion Station, Pennsylvania?
Akashic tracks 6 presidential elections in Merion Station, Pennsylvania from 2004 to 2024. Of those, 6 went Democratic and 0 went Republican.
