- Lead
- 3,905
- Total
- 36,118
- vs nation
- D+12.3
Pennsylvania 53rd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 5,337
- Total
- 35,151
- vs nation
- D+10.7
- Lead
- 2,921
- Total
- 29,781
- vs nation
- D+7.7
- Lead
- 649
- Total
- 28,367
- vs nation
- R+1.6
- Lead
- 2,598
- Total
- 28,535
- vs nation
- D+1.8
- Lead
- 160
- Total
- 27,300
- vs nation
- D+1.9
- Lead
- 497
- Total
- 22,930
- vs nation
- R+2.7
- Lead
- 631
- Total
- 20,585
- vs nation
- R+11.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+10.8MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 64,6852024 5-year
- Population density
- 3,023 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 21.4 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $97,9652024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 66.8%2024 5-year
- Black
- 5.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 7.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+15.2 in 2020MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+65.3 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- 2nd Norfolk District, MA · twin score 91.1
presidential history
Party record book
Pennsylvania 53rd 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
Joe Biden2020
57.0%
20,034 votes · D+15.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 54.7%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
80.4%
5,951 votes · R+61.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 79.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
20,034votes
57.0% of the vote · D+15.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 19,750 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
15,845votes
43.9% of the vote · D+10.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 14,697 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
+12.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+10.8 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +10.7 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1932
+58.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+41.2 · U.S. D+17.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Thomas E. Dewey, 1948 · +48.9 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 | 61.4%23,223 | 38.6%14,618 | 37,841 |
Pennsylvania 53rd State House District sits in the Mid-Atlantic. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 15.2 points in 2020 and a Republican high of 65.3 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 10.8 points.
A population of 64,685, a 67% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $97,965 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of 2nd Norfolk District and State House District 151.
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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