- Lead
- 24,677
- Total
- 31,923
- vs nation
- D+78.8
Pennsylvania 24th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 26,589
- Total
- 33,621
- vs nation
- D+74.6
- Lead
- 26,143
- Total
- 33,961
- vs nation
- D+74.9
- Lead
- 24,894
- Total
- 31,783
- vs nation
- D+74.5
- Lead
- 26,577
- Total
- 33,668
- vs nation
- D+71.7
- Lead
- 26,152
- Total
- 32,799
- vs nation
- D+82.2
- Lead
- 23,353
- Total
- 29,910
- vs nation
- D+77.6
- Lead
- 20,144
- Total
- 27,295
- vs nation
- D+65.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+77.3MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 61,2062024 5-year
- Population density
- 6,955 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 8.8 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $55,7022024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 44.5%2024 5-year
- Black
- 39.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 3.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+85.1 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+1.3 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 19, PA · twin score 98.8
presidential history
Party record book
Pennsylvania 24th 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
92.3%
37,797 votes · D+85.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 90.5%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
30.3%
1,025 votes · D+21.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 30.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
37,797votes
92.3% of the vote · D+85.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 34,108 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
4,760votes
15.9% of the vote · D+68.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 4,370 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
+96.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+78.1 · U.S. R+18.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George McGovern, 1972 · +88.9 pts
Republican
William H. Taft1912
−20.0pts R vs U.S.
Place D+39.5 · U.S. D+19.5 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · −23.9 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%20,483 | 41.1%14,295 | 34,778 |
With a 2024 presidential margin of D+77.3, this Philadelphia-area district ranks among the most heavily Democratic state house seats in Pennsylvania, reflecting a dense urban electorate where competitive general elections are rare.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 85.1 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 1.3 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 77.3 points.
A population of 61,206, a 45% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $55,702 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 19 and State House District 86.
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 24th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/42024/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.