- Lead
- 9,992
- Total
- 36,695
- vs nation
- R+25.8
Pennsylvania 5th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 9,295
- Total
- 35,237
- vs nation
- R+30.8
- Lead
- 9,747
- Total
- 30,931
- vs nation
- R+33.6
- Lead
- 6,785
- Total
- 28,354
- vs nation
- R+27.8
- Lead
- 4,072
- Total
- 29,343
- vs nation
- R+21.1
- Lead
- 8,025
- Total
- 27,432
- vs nation
- R+26.8
- Lead
- 7,053
- Total
- 22,804
- vs nation
- R+31.4
- Lead
- 5,177
- Total
- 20,353
- vs nation
- R+34.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+27.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 64,9482024 5-year
- Population density
- 263 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 247 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $101,3682024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 85.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 2.4%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 7.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+24.7 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+54.1 in 1928MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 128, PA · twin score 95.9
presidential history
Party record book
Pennsylvania 5th 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
55.2%
9,269 votes · D+10.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 52.9%
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
74.7%
15,097 votes · R+50.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George H. W. Bush, 1988 · 72.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
13,183votes
35.9% of the vote · R+27.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 12,752 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
23,175votes
63.2% of the vote · R+27.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 22,047 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
Woodrow Wilson1912
+5.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+24.7 · U.S. D+19.5 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Grover Cleveland, 1892 · +4.9 pts
Republican
George H. W. Bush1988
+39.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+46.9 · U.S. R+7.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · +36.7 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.
Pennsylvania 5th State House District sits in the Mid-Atlantic. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 24.7 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 54.1 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 0.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 27.2 points.
A population of 64,948, a 85% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $101,368 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 128 and State House District 130.
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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