- Lead
- 10,262
- Total
- 37,512
- vs nation
- D+28.8
Pennsylvania 32nd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 9,845
- Total
- 38,049
- vs nation
- D+21.4
- Lead
- 7,433
- Total
- 34,852
- vs nation
- D+19.2
- Lead
- 6,448
- Total
- 33,112
- vs nation
- D+15.6
- Lead
- 7,122
- Total
- 34,822
- vs nation
- D+13.2
- Lead
- 6,885
- Total
- 34,441
- vs nation
- D+22.4
- Lead
- 6,579
- Total
- 30,969
- vs nation
- D+20.7
- Lead
- 5,586
- Total
- 28,281
- vs nation
- D+11.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+27.4MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 64,0852024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,537 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 41.7 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $74,6392024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 64.7%2024 5-year
- Black
- 27.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 2.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+38.3 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+55.9 in 1904MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 36, PA · twin score 91.4
presidential history
Party record book
Pennsylvania 32nd 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
68.4%
26,455 votes · D+37.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 67.8%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
75.7%
4,565 votes · R+55.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · 69.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
26,455votes
68.4% of the vote · D+37.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 23,870 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
19,335votes
52.3% of the vote · R+4.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 18,674 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
+36.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+18.2 · U.S. R+18.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Michael Dukakis, 1988 · +32.8 pts
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
+36.2pts R vs U.S.
Place R+55.9 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · +34.7 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.
| Year | Vote lead | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | D | 58.9%21,447 | 41.1%14,967 | 36,414 |
With a 2024 presidential margin of D+27.4, this district ranks among the state's most reliably Democratic state house constituencies, likely anchored by a dense urban or university-adjacent population base.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 38.3 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 55.9 points in 1904. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.5 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 27.4 points.
A population of 64,085, a 65% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $74,639 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 36 and State House District 25.
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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