combined metro areaPittsburgh-Weirton-Steubenville, PA-OH-WV
presidential margin
2004–2024 · Democratic minus Republican
2004D+3.3
2008D+1.8
2012R+2.4
2016R+8.4
2020R+6.4
2024R+7.7
full record · 1892 → 2024
presidential returns
2024 turnout 72.0% of 2,184,122 citizens 18+
Year
Democrat
Republican
Others
Total
CVAP
Turnout
2024
718,543
840,159
13,571
1,572,273
2,184,122
72.0%
2020
717,247
816,464
18,181
1,551,892
2,162,902
71.8%
2016
609,624
726,571
62,668
1,398,863
2,187,336
64.0%
2012
633,610
665,015
20,395
1,319,020
2,183,183
60.4%
2008
692,802
668,166
15,314
1,376,282
2,170,397
63.4%
2004
701,764
656,705
8,365
1,366,834
2,157,611†
63.3%
† Citizen voting-age population estimated for prior cycles; 2004 predates the ACS and is extrapolated. Source: ACS 5-year, table B05003.
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D+60R+60
13 counties by 2024 margin · County returns · MIT Election Lab
People and households
Who lives here
Exact values for this place, its state, and the United States.
Race · ethnicity · ancestry
Communities and origins
GroupPittsburgh-Weirton-Steubenville, PA-OH-WVUnited States
German24.0%12.5%
Irish16.7%9.4%
Italian14.6%4.8%
English9.5%9.5%
Polish7.3%2.2%
American3.5%5.3%
Slovak2.8%—
Scottish1.6%1.3%
African American†6.7%9.9%
African0.3%0.5%
Mexican0.8%11.3%
Puerto Rican0.5%1.8%
Asian Indian0.9%1.4%
Chinese0.5%1.3%
Hispanic or Latino counts residents of any race; the race groups count only their non-Hispanic residents, so the groups are mutually exclusive and sum to 100%. Expand a row to see ancestries reported within that group.
Age and life stage
Measure
Pittsburgh-Weirton-Steubenville, PA-OH-WV
United States
Median age
43
39.1
Age 18–24
8.4%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
21.6%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Pittsburgh-Weirton-Steubenville, PA-OH-WV
United States
Median household income
$74,485
$84,427
Poverty rate
11.4%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
36.7%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Pittsburgh-Weirton-Steubenville, PA-OH-WV
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
5.6%
22.3%
Spanish
1.4%
13.6%
Other Indo-European
1.3%
2.0%
Religious landscape
Measure
Pittsburgh-Weirton-Steubenville, PA-OH-WV
United States
Catholic
29.0%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
9.2%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
46.5%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
10.3%
5.2%
American Community Survey 2024 5-year (CVAP, income, age, poverty, education, language, race, ancestry) · presidential returns from MIT Election Lab through 2024 · 2020 U.S. Religion Census (ASARB) — congregational adherents; unclaimed is the residual not counted by congregations.
Pittsburgh-Weirton-Steubenville, PA-OH-WV
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1892–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1892
−12.9%
1896
−29.0%
1900
−31.3%
1904
−47.0%
1908
−24.5%
1912
+7.8%
1916
−12.6%
1920
−40.4%
1924
−47.2%
1928
−25.7%
1932
+8.0%
1936
+29.5%
1940
+15.1%
1944
+12.7%
1948
+11.9%
1952
+4.6%
1956
−6.4%
1960
+10.4%
1964
+35.8%
1968
+14.4%
1972
−14.6%
1976
+7.9%
1980
+5.0%
1984
+11.6%
1988
+18.0%
1992
+21.2%
1996
+12.2%
2000
+7.1%
2004
+3.3%
2008
+1.8%
2012
−2.4%
2016
−8.4%
2020
−6.4%
2024
−7.7%
DemocraticRepublican
34 presidential elections
Third column names the leading third-party or independent finisher. Source · MIT Election Lab · ICPSR · VEST (precinct-level 2024). Swing · margin change from the prior cycle. vs U.S. · margin relative to the national result that year.
Year
Won
Democratic
Republican
Other
Margin
Swing
vs U.S.
Total
R
45.7%Harris718,543
53.4%Trump840,159
0.5%Oliver7,184 +5
R+7.7
R+1.3
R+6.3
1,572,273
All 8 candidates in 2024 · 6 minor / independent
Donald J TrumpRepublican53.4%840,159
Kamala D HarrisDemocratic45.7%718,543
Chase OliverLibertarian0.5%7,184
Jill SteinIndependent0.4%5,892
Robert F KennedyIndependent0.0%248
Peter SonskiNonpartisan0.0%167
Richard DuncanNonpartisan0.0%70
OtherAll other candidates0.0%10
R
46.2%Biden717,247
52.6%Trump816,464
1.2%
R+6.4
D+2.0
R+10.8
1,551,892
R
43.6%Clinton609,624
51.9%Trump726,571
4.5%
R+8.4
R+6.0
R+10.5
1,398,863
R
48.0%Obama633,610
50.4%Romney665,015
1.5%
R+2.4
R+4.2
R+6.2
1,319,020
D
50.3%Obama692,802
48.5%McCain668,166
1.1%
D+1.8
R+1.5
R+5.5
1,376,282
D
51.3%Kerry701,764
48.0%Bush656,705
0.6%
D+3.3
R+3.8
D+5.8
1,366,834
D
52.1%Gore636,449
44.9%Bush549,261
3.0%
D+7.1
R+5.1
D+6.6
1,222,367
D
50.7%Clinton576,300
38.5%Dole437,455
10.9%
D+12.2
R+9.0
D+3.7
1,137,634
D
50.9%Clinton644,505
29.7%Bush375,935
19.5%
D+21.2
D+3.2
D+15.6
1,267,270
D
58.6%Dukakis692,076
40.6%Bush479,367
0.9%
D+18.0
D+6.4
D+25.7
1,181,780
D
55.4%Mondale735,122
43.8%Reagan581,185
0.9%
D+11.6
D+6.6
D+29.8
1,328,130
D
48.9%Carter604,379
43.8%Reagan542,438
7.3%
D+5.0
R+2.9
D+14.7
1,237,031
D
52.9%Carter672,186
45.0%Ford571,687
2.1%
D+7.9
D+22.6
D+5.8
1,270,920
R
41.6%McGovern530,495
56.3%Nixon717,060
2.1%
R+14.6
R+29.1
D+8.5
1,273,888
D
51.8%Humphrey703,229
37.4%Nixon507,665
10.7%
D+14.4
R+21.4
D+15.1
1,356,737
D
67.7%Johnson935,565
31.9%Goldwater440,620
0.4%
D+35.8
D+25.5
D+13.3
1,381,081
D
55.1%Kennedy796,866
44.7%Nixon646,772
0.2%
D+10.4
D+16.8
D+10.2
1,446,353
R
46.7%Stevenson626,944
53.1%Eisenhower712,668
0.1%
R+6.4
R+11.0
D+9.0
1,341,587
D
52.1%Stevenson715,727
47.5%Eisenhower653,012
0.4%
D+4.6
R+7.3
D+15.3
1,374,308
D
54.7%Truman593,779
42.9%Dewey464,978
2.4%
D+11.9
R+0.8
D+7.4
1,084,987
D
56.1%Roosevelt628,855
43.4%Dewey486,781
0.5%
D+12.7
R+2.4
D+5.2
1,121,079
D
57.3%Roosevelt677,172
42.2%Willkie498,705
0.4%
D+15.1
R+14.4
D+5.2
1,180,948
D
63.5%Roosevelt709,913
34.0%Landon379,789
2.5%
D+29.5
D+21.5
D+5.3
1,117,275
D
51.7%Roosevelt384,168
43.7%Hoover324,645
4.6%
D+8.0
D+33.7
R+9.8
742,743
R
36.7%Smith282,952
62.4%Hoover480,862
0.9%
R+25.7
D+21.5
R+8.2
770,940
R
13.2%Davis72,080
60.4%Coolidge328,752
26.4%
R+47.2
R+6.8
R+22.0
544,249
R
24.8%Cox108,277
65.2%Harding284,343
9.9%
R+40.4
R+27.8
R+14.2
435,915
R
39.6%Wilson118,920
52.1%Hughes156,718
8.3%
R+12.6
R+20.3
R+15.7
300,660
O
27.7%Wilson75,954
19.9%Taft54,656
52.4%
Roosevelt +24.7
D+32.3
R+11.8
274,174
R
32.8%Bryan90,873
57.3%Taft158,785
9.9%
R+24.5
D+22.5
R+14.9
277,197
R
23.0%Parker60,172
70.0%Roosevelt182,928
6.9%
R+47.0
R+15.7
R+27.3
261,200
R
32.3%Bryan78,623
63.6%McKinley154,657
4.1%
R+31.3
R+2.2
R+23.7
243,145
R
34.5%Bryan86,266
63.5%McKinley158,944
2.0%
R+29.0
R+16.1
R+23.0
250,301
R
41.4%Cleveland81,721
54.3%Harrison107,173
4.3%
R+12.9
—
R+14.6
197,369
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2026D+2.8
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+7.7
Pittsburgh-Weirton-Steubenville, PA-OH-WV registers Democratic but votes Republican — a 10-point gap between how voters register and how they vote, the signature of ancestral registration that trails realignment.
DemocraticRepublicanUnaffiliatedOther parties
† Some years predate full county coverage; a flagged year sums only the counties reporting it.
Voter registration in Pittsburgh-Weirton-Steubenville, PA-OH-WV
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2026 (partial)
1,905,180
834,817
782,395
217,691
70,277
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+1,724 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −57,194 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Pittsburgh-Weirton-Steubenville, PA-OH-WV in Pittsburgh-Weirton-Steubenville, PA-OH-WV: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+2,855
2012
−679
2013
−909
2014
−5,961
2015
−9,372
2016
−12,500
2017
−10,973
2018
−5,880
2019
−4,298
2021
+3,770
2022
−10,124
2023
−3,916
2024
−931
2025
+1,724
Pittsburgh-Weirton-Steubenville, PA-OH-WV sits in the Mid-Atlantic. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 35.8 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 47.2 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the region moved 1.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 7.7 points.
A population of 2,746,993, a 84% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $74,485 describe the region. The region's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Buffalo-Cheektowaga-Olean, NY and Syracuse-Auburn, NY.
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How did Pittsburgh-Weirton-Steubenville, PA-OH-WV, Pennsylvania vote in 2024?
In 2024, Pittsburgh-Weirton-Steubenville, PA-OH-WV, Pennsylvania voted Republican by 7.7 points (R+7.7), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 1,572,273 votes cast, 718,543 went Democratic and 840,159 went Republican.
When did Pittsburgh-Weirton-Steubenville, PA-OH-WV, Pennsylvania last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Pittsburgh-Weirton-Steubenville, PA-OH-WV, Pennsylvania voted Democratic was 2008.
How many people live in Pittsburgh-Weirton-Steubenville, PA-OH-WV, Pennsylvania?
Pittsburgh-Weirton-Steubenville, PA-OH-WV, Pennsylvania has a population of 2,746,993 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Pittsburgh-Weirton-Steubenville, PA-OH-WV, Pennsylvania?
Median household income in Pittsburgh-Weirton-Steubenville, PA-OH-WV, Pennsylvania is $74,485 — below the national median of $80,734. The Pennsylvania state median is $77,971.
What is the political history of Pittsburgh-Weirton-Steubenville, PA-OH-WV, Pennsylvania?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Pittsburgh-Weirton-Steubenville, PA-OH-WV, Pennsylvania from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 18 went Democratic and 15 went Republican.
