- Lead
- 9,941
- Total
- 30,124
- vs nation
- R+31.5
Pennsylvania 43rd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 10,009
- Total
- 29,319
- vs nation
- R+38.6
- Lead
- 9,197
- Total
- 24,809
- vs nation
- R+39.2
- Lead
- 8,482
- Total
- 22,478
- vs nation
- R+41.6
- Lead
- 7,238
- Total
- 22,756
- vs nation
- R+39.1
- Lead
- 11,386
- Total
- 22,828
- vs nation
- R+47.4
- Lead
- 9,304
- Total
- 18,147
- vs nation
- R+51.8
- Lead
- 7,182
- Total
- 16,056
- vs nation
- R+53.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+33.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 64,3522024 5-year
- Population density
- 636 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 101 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $78,7532024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 86.8%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 6.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Republican margin
- R+74.7 in 1928MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 98, PA · twin score 94.6
presidential history
Party record book
Pennsylvania 43rd 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
39.7%
4,043 votes · R+20.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 36.5%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
86.9%
6,510 votes · R+74.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · 83.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
9,910votes
32.9% of the vote · R+33.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 9,363 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
19,851votes
65.9% of the vote · R+33.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 19,372 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
−31.5pts D vs U.S.
Place R+33.0 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · −38.6 pts
Republican
Thomas E. Dewey1948
+58.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+53.9 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1960 · +57.5 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%12,972 | 60.3%19,680 | 32,652 |
| 2020 | R | 39.6%12,665 | 60.4%19,317 | 31,982 |
In 2024 it voted Republican by R+32.9, against R+31.8 in 2008. The district had about 57,800 residents, 81.6% White alone in the 2024 ACS 5-year.
Across the recorded series it reached a Republican high of 74.7 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.1 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 33.0 points.
A population of 64,352, a 87% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $78,753 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 37.
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 43rd State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/42043/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.