- Lead
- 13,524
- Total
- 32,247
- vs nation
- R+40.5
Pennsylvania 65th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 13,139
- Total
- 32,044
- vs nation
- R+45.5
- Lead
- 11,819
- Total
- 28,999
- vs nation
- R+42.8
- Lead
- 5,533
- Total
- 27,101
- vs nation
- R+24.3
- Lead
- 2,888
- Total
- 29,190
- vs nation
- R+17.2
- Lead
- 5,321
- Total
- 29,903
- vs nation
- R+15.3
- Lead
- 3,946
- Total
- 26,788
- vs nation
- R+15.2
- Lead
- 505
- Total
- 25,947
- vs nation
- R+10.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+41.9MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 63,8662024 5-year
- Population density
- 40 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 1,613 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $61,1682024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 91.6%2024 5-year
- Black
- 2.6%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 1.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+24.4 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+59.1 in 1928MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 110, PA · twin score 97.1
presidential history
Party record book
Pennsylvania 65th 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
62.0%
15,240 votes · D+24.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Jimmy Carter, 1976 · 45.2%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
79.0%
17,526 votes · R+59.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 72.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
15,240votes
62.0% of the vote · D+24.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 12,744 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
22,750votes
70.5% of the vote · R+41.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 22,345 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
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
+1.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+24.4 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Bill Clinton, 1992 · −6.6 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2020
+45.5pts R vs U.S.
Place R+41.0 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · +42.8 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.
With a 58.5-point Republican lean in the 2024 presidential race, this rural district ranks among the most politically homogeneous in the state, reflecting the consolidation of nonurban Pennsylvania around a single partisan coalition.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 24.4 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 59.1 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 0.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 41.9 points.
A population of 63,866, a 92% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $61,168 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 110 and State House District 52.
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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