- Lead
- 1,506
- Total
- 39,220
- vs nation
- R+2.4
Pennsylvania 44th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 1,221
- Total
- 38,131
- vs nation
- R+7.7
- Lead
- 3,134
- Total
- 32,361
- vs nation
- R+11.8
- Lead
- 3,883
- Total
- 30,909
- vs nation
- R+16.4
- Lead
- 3,809
- Total
- 32,344
- vs nation
- R+19.0
- Lead
- 3,913
- Total
- 32,031
- vs nation
- R+9.8
- Lead
- 2,939
- Total
- 28,704
- vs nation
- R+10.8
- Lead
- 2,611
- Total
- 26,653
- vs nation
- R+18.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+3.8MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 66,3882024 5-year
- Population density
- 622 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 107 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $106,2922024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 84.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 3.9%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 3.3%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+8.7 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+73.0 in 1904MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 28, PA · twin score 95.5
presidential history
Party record book
Pennsylvania 44th 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
52.9%
17,949 votes · D+6.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 52.6%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
84.4%
5,946 votes · R+73.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · 80.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
18,663votes
47.6% of the vote · R+3.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 18,167 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
25,229votes
67.7% of the vote · R+35.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 24,409 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
+4.3pts D vs U.S.
Place R+13.9 · U.S. R+18.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Michael Dukakis, 1988 · +0.9 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+57.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+63.4 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1900 · +54.8 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%22,218 | 41.1%15,505 | 37,723 |
The 2024 presidential margin was R+3.8, one of the narrower results among Pennsylvania's state house districts, compared with R+11.8 in 2008. The district had about 180,000 residents, 76.1% White alone in the 2024 ACS 5-year.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 8.7 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 73.0 points in 1904. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 0.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 3.8 points.
A population of 66,388, a 85% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $106,292 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 28 and State House District 40.
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 44th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/42044/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.