- Lead
- 3,221
- Total
- 18,354
- vs nation
- D+19.0
Pennsylvania 22nd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 6,213
- Total
- 18,482
- vs nation
- D+29.2
- Lead
- 7,629
- Total
- 17,821
- vs nation
- D+40.7
- Lead
- 7,416
- Total
- 16,562
- vs nation
- D+40.9
- Lead
- 9,094
- Total
- 17,696
- vs nation
- D+44.1
- Lead
- 6,681
- Total
- 15,990
- vs nation
- D+44.2
- Lead
- 5,025
- Total
- 12,564
- vs nation
- D+39.5
- Lead
- 4,413
- Total
- 11,293
- vs nation
- D+30.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+17.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 62,1462024 5-year
- Population density
- 5,312 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 11.7 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $51,1362024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 27.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 11.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 57.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+68.3 in 1880MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+14.5 in 1928MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 127, PA · twin score 96.5
presidential history
Party record book
Pennsylvania 22nd 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
Winfield S. Hancock1880
84.1%
1,300 votes · D+68.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Samuel J. Tilden, 1876 · 83.5%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
57.1%
2,715 votes · R+14.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 42.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
13,245votes
74.8% of the vote · D+51.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 12,335 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
7,480votes
40.8% of the vote · D+17.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 6,049 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
Grover Cleveland1892
+60.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+61.8 · U.S. D+1.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Alton B. Parker, 1904 · +59.5 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
−2.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+14.5 · U.S. R+17.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · −19.0 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
With a 2024 presidential margin of D+17.6, this district ranks among Pennsylvania's more reliably blue state house seats, reflecting the dense suburban or urban composition typical of districts in this corridor.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 68.3 points in 1880 and a Republican high of 14.5 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 16.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 17.5 points.
A population of 62,146, a 28% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $51,136 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 127 and Assembly District 78.
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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