- Lead
- 7,696
- Total
- 40,170
- vs nation
- R+17.7
Pennsylvania 39th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 6,875
- Total
- 39,641
- vs nation
- R+21.8
- Lead
- 7,197
- Total
- 34,901
- vs nation
- R+22.7
- Lead
- 7,008
- Total
- 33,319
- vs nation
- R+24.9
- Lead
- 6,430
- Total
- 34,708
- vs nation
- R+25.8
- Lead
- 6,247
- Total
- 34,404
- vs nation
- R+15.7
- Lead
- 4,583
- Total
- 30,460
- vs nation
- R+15.6
- Lead
- 3,534
- Total
- 28,025
- vs nation
- R+21.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+19.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 65,7932024 5-year
- Population density
- 701 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 93.8 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $84,3102024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 90.5%2024 5-year
- Black
- 2.4%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 1.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+5.8 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+73.2 in 1904MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 46, PA · twin score 95.1
presidential history
Party record book
Pennsylvania 39th 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
51.8%
18,053 votes · D+3.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 51.6%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
84.8%
6,439 votes · R+73.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · 80.0%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
18,053votes
51.8% of the vote · D+3.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 16,159 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
26,701votes
68.1% of the vote · R+36.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 26,084 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
+1.2pts D vs U.S.
Place R+17.0 · U.S. R+18.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Michael Dukakis, 1988 · −2.1 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+56.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+62.1 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1900 · +54.3 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 | 54.6%20,316 | 45.4%16,926 | 37,242 |
Pennsylvania 39th State House District sits in the Mid-Atlantic. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 5.8 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 73.2 points in 1904. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 19.2 points.
A population of 65,793, a 91% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $84,310 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 46 and Assembly District 147.
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 39th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/42039/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.