- Lead
- 22,313
- Total
- 34,998
- vs nation
- D+65.2
Pennsylvania 23rd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 21,698
- Total
- 33,017
- vs nation
- D+61.3
- Lead
- 20,696
- Total
- 33,824
- vs nation
- D+59.1
- Lead
- 19,542
- Total
- 31,618
- vs nation
- D+58.0
- Lead
- 20,902
- Total
- 33,464
- vs nation
- D+55.2
- Lead
- 20,553
- Total
- 32,732
- vs nation
- D+65.2
- Lead
- 18,484
- Total
- 29,707
- vs nation
- D+61.7
- Lead
- 15,969
- Total
- 27,475
- vs nation
- D+49.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+63.8MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 61,5672024 5-year
- Population density
- 8,434 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 7.3 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $73,0632024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 72.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 4.4%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 4.1%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+72.6 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+18.0 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- 17th Suffolk District, MA · twin score 93.9
presidential history
Party record book
Pennsylvania 23rd 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
86.0%
34,097 votes · D+72.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 84.3%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
49.5%
2,013 votes · R+11.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 43.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
34,097votes
86.0% of the vote · D+72.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 30,731 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
8,411votes
27.0% of the vote · D+45.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 8,150 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
Walter Mondale1984
+79.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+61.1 · U.S. R+18.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Michael Dukakis, 1988 · +73.1 pts
Republican
Calvin Coolidge1924
−7.2pts R vs U.S.
Place R+18.0 · U.S. R+25.2 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William H. Taft, 1912 · −7.4 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.
| Year | Vote lead | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | D | 58.9%20,604 | 41.1%14,379 | 34,983 |
Pennsylvania 23rd State House District sits in the Mid-Atlantic. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 72.6 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 18.0 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 63.8 points.
A population of 61,567, a 72% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $73,063 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of 17th Suffolk District and 18th Suffolk District.
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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Pennsylvania 23rd State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/42023/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.