- Lead
- 2,894
- Total
- 32,495
- vs nation
- D+10.4
Pennsylvania 74th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 4,078
- Total
- 31,715
- vs nation
- D+8.4
- Lead
- 2,842
- Total
- 26,711
- vs nation
- D+8.5
- Lead
- 297
- Total
- 24,740
- vs nation
- R+2.7
- Lead
- 2,614
- Total
- 25,200
- vs nation
- D+3.1
- Lead
- 701
- Total
- 22,714
- vs nation
- R+0.6
- Lead
- 1,602
- Total
- 18,303
- vs nation
- R+9.3
- Lead
- 1,075
- Total
- 15,265
- vs nation
- R+15.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+8.9MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 64,5732024 5-year
- Population density
- 786 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 82.2 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $87,5142024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 65.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 16.8%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 11.1%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+12.9 in 2020MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+65.8 in 1928MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 146, PA · twin score 92.0
presidential history
Party record book
Pennsylvania 74th 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
55.8%
17,700 votes · D+12.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 55.0%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
82.8%
3,564 votes · R+65.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 77.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
17,700votes
55.8% of the vote · D+12.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 17,574 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
14,680votes
45.2% of the vote · D+8.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 13,622 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
+10.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+8.9 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · +8.5 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1932
+58.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+40.5 · U.S. D+17.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · +48.3 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Pennsylvania 74th State House District sits in the Mid-Atlantic. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 12.9 points in 2020 and a Republican high of 65.8 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 8.9 points.
A population of 64,573, a 65% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $87,514 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 146 and State House District 152.
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 74th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/42074/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.