- Lead
- 2,150
- Total
- 33,462
- vs nation
- D+7.9
Pennsylvania 2nd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 2,892
- Total
- 33,250
- vs nation
- D+4.2
- Lead
- 2,186
- Total
- 30,486
- vs nation
- D+5.1
- Lead
- 7,334
- Total
- 29,856
- vs nation
- D+20.7
- Lead
- 9,117
- Total
- 32,246
- vs nation
- D+21.0
- Lead
- 5,423
- Total
- 31,261
- vs nation
- D+19.8
- Lead
- 5,025
- Total
- 27,912
- vs nation
- D+17.5
- Lead
- 6,528
- Total
- 26,848
- vs nation
- D+15.8
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+6.4MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 65,4652024 5-year
- Population density
- 636 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 103 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $63,4452024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 77.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 9.8%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 5.1%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+46.9 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+46.2 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 9, IN · twin score 90.9
presidential history
Party record book
Pennsylvania 2nd State House District · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 (partial returns from 1876) · 38 presidential cycles · 38 with a vote-share denominator · 34 with a national benchmark
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
73.2%
19,587 votes · D+46.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 63.2%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
61.0%
4,362 votes · R+36.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 59.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
20,368votes
63.2% of the vote · D+28.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 19,587 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
15,512votes
46.4% of the vote · D+6.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 14,953 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
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
+24.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+46.9 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Walter Mondale, 1984 · +24.1 pts
Republican
Calvin Coolidge1924
+21.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+46.2 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · +10.7 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
U.S. House
Each row is a county-allocated estimate of U.S. House votes for this district — county returns apportioned onto its boundary, not precinct-counted. “Vote lead” is the estimated local lead here, not necessarily the winner of the full contest.
The 2024 presidential margin was D+6.5, one of the narrower results among Pennsylvania's state house districts, compared with D+28.3 in 2008. The district had about 34,200 residents, 82.7% White alone in the 2024 ACS 5-year.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 46.9 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 46.2 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 6.4 points.
A population of 65,465, a 77% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $63,445 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 9 and State House District 10.
The state-house districts 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.
District research tools
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