- Lead
- 10,140
- Total
- 40,041
- vs nation
- R+23.9
Pennsylvania 37th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 10,992
- Total
- 38,743
- vs nation
- R+32.8
- Lead
- 11,444
- Total
- 32,814
- vs nation
- R+37.0
- Lead
- 10,563
- Total
- 29,982
- vs nation
- R+39.1
- Lead
- 8,808
- Total
- 30,078
- vs nation
- R+36.6
- Lead
- 14,429
- Total
- 30,250
- vs nation
- R+45.2
- Lead
- 11,896
- Total
- 24,220
- vs nation
- R+49.6
- Lead
- 8,889
- Total
- 21,044
- vs nation
- R+50.8
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+25.3MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 66,5252024 5-year
- Population density
- 476 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 140 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $89,8332024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 90.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 4.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Republican margin
- R+73.0 in 1928MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 98, PA · twin score 97.7
presidential history
Party record book
Pennsylvania 37th 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
40.9%
5,550 votes · R+17.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 37.8%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
86.1%
8,465 votes · R+73.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · 82.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
14,693votes
36.7% of the vote · R+25.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 13,460 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
24,833votes
62.0% of the vote · R+25.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 24,452 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
Kamala Harris2024
−23.9pts D vs U.S.
Place R+25.3 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · −32.8 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
+55.5pts R vs U.S.
Place R+73.0 · U.S. R+17.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Thomas E. Dewey, 1948 · +54.7 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 | R | 39.7%13,410 | 60.3%20,344 | 33,754 |
| 2020 | R | 39.6%13,093 | 60.4%19,969 | 33,062 |
With a 25.3-point Republican presidential margin in 2024, this district sits well outside Pennsylvania's competitive corridor, reflecting a rural or small-town electorate that has shifted decisively away from statewide battleground patterns.
Across the recorded series it reached a Republican high of 73.0 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.0 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 25.3 points.
A population of 66,525, a 90% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $89,833 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 98 and State House District 97.
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 37th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/42037/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.