- Lead
- 9,355
- Total
- 42,300
- vs nation
- D+23.6
Pennsylvania 61st State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 9,718
- Total
- 42,103
- vs nation
- D+18.6
- Lead
- 5,915
- Total
- 36,608
- vs nation
- D+14.1
- Lead
- 3,043
- Total
- 34,807
- vs nation
- D+4.9
- Lead
- 5,401
- Total
- 35,391
- vs nation
- D+8.0
- Lead
- 1,995
- Total
- 33,675
- vs nation
- D+8.4
- Lead
- 1,222
- Total
- 28,036
- vs nation
- D+3.8
- Lead
- 680
- Total
- 24,669
- vs nation
- R+5.8
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+22.1MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 63,8992024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,727 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 37 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $124,1122024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 75.8%2024 5-year
- Black
- 5.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 3.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+23.1 in 2020MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+59.9 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 151, PA · twin score 95.9
presidential history
Party record book
Pennsylvania 61st 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
61.1%
25,711 votes · D+23.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 60.5%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
78.2%
6,870 votes · R+57.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 77.0%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
25,711votes
61.1% of the vote · D+23.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 25,603 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
16,248votes
38.4% of the vote · D+22.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 16,239 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
+23.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+22.1 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +18.6 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1932
+54.2pts R vs U.S.
Place R+36.4 · U.S. D+17.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Thomas E. Dewey, 1948 · +43.6 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%22,941 | 38.6%14,440 | 37,381 |
Pennsylvania 61st State House District sits in the Mid-Atlantic. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 23.1 points in 2020 and a Republican high of 59.9 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 22.1 points.
A population of 63,899, a 76% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $124,112 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 151 and State House District 70.
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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