- Lead
- 3,082
- Total
- 41,301
- vs nation
- R+6.0
Pennsylvania 28th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 3,317
- Total
- 40,015
- vs nation
- R+12.7
- Lead
- 5,702
- Total
- 33,216
- vs nation
- R+19.3
- Lead
- 6,460
- Total
- 31,959
- vs nation
- R+24.1
- Lead
- 6,480
- Total
- 33,191
- vs nation
- R+26.8
- Lead
- 6,575
- Total
- 32,885
- vs nation
- R+17.5
- Lead
- 5,235
- Total
- 29,464
- vs nation
- R+18.3
- Lead
- 4,618
- Total
- 27,467
- vs nation
- R+25.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+7.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 63,1362024 5-year
- Population density
- 718 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 87.9 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $136,5612024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 87.7%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 2.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+0.9 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+75.8 in 1904MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 40, PA · twin score 98.7
presidential history
Party record book
Pennsylvania 28th 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
48.9%
16,757 votes · R+1.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 48.4%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
85.7%
6,561 votes · R+75.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · 82.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
18,885votes
45.7% of the vote · R+7.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 18,003 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
27,668votes
71.1% of the vote · R+42.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 26,768 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
−3.4pts D vs U.S.
Place R+21.6 · U.S. R+18.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · −6.0 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+61.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+67.2 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1900 · +58.3 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%21,129 | 41.1%14,746 | 35,875 |
Pennsylvania 28th State House District sits in the Mid-Atlantic. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 0.9 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 75.8 points in 1904. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 0.8 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 7.5 points.
A population of 63,136, a 88% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $136,561 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 40 and State House District 30.
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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