- Lead
- 22,125
- Total
- 35,210
- vs nation
- D+64.3
Pennsylvania 34th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 22,844
- Total
- 36,998
- vs nation
- D+57.3
- Lead
- 21,044
- Total
- 35,950
- vs nation
- D+56.4
- Lead
- 19,795
- Total
- 33,731
- vs nation
- D+54.8
- Lead
- 21,223
- Total
- 35,598
- vs nation
- D+52.3
- Lead
- 20,875
- Total
- 35,113
- vs nation
- D+61.9
- Lead
- 18,739
- Total
- 31,923
- vs nation
- D+58.2
- Lead
- 16,094
- Total
- 29,143
- vs nation
- D+46.7
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+62.8MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 61,3302024 5-year
- Population density
- 3,882 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 15.8 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $60,1382024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 51.8%2024 5-year
- Black
- 37.9%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 3.0%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+69.8 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+25.0 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 19, PA · twin score 95.1
presidential history
Party record book
Pennsylvania 34th 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
84.8%
35,966 votes · D+69.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 83.4%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
54.7%
2,304 votes · R+15.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · 46.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
35,966votes
84.8% of the vote · D+69.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 32,407 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
10,116votes
29.7% of the vote · D+40.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 9,573 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
+76.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+58.1 · U.S. R+18.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Michael Dukakis, 1988 · +69.9 pts
Republican
Calvin Coolidge1924
−0.2pts R vs U.S.
Place R+25.0 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · −3.9 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%20,525 | 41.1%14,324 | 34,849 |
With a 2024 presidential margin of D+62, this district ranks among the most heavily Democratic constituencies in the state, suggesting a dense urban core with a highly concentrated partisan lean that leaves little competitive ground.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 69.8 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 25.0 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.1 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 62.8 points.
A population of 61,330, a 52% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $60,138 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 21.
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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