- Lead
- 4,898
- Total
- 31,211
- vs nation
- D+17.2
Pennsylvania 77th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 5,589
- Total
- 30,270
- vs nation
- D+14.0
- Lead
- 4,012
- Total
- 30,290
- vs nation
- D+11.2
- Lead
- 3,150
- Total
- 27,157
- vs nation
- D+7.7
- Lead
- 6,941
- Total
- 30,099
- vs nation
- D+15.8
- Lead
- 1,979
- Total
- 24,940
- vs nation
- D+10.4
- Lead
- 305
- Total
- 19,016
- vs nation
- D+1.1
- Lead
- 1,973
- Total
- 18,272
- vs nation
- D+2.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+15.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 61,8352024 5-year
- Population density
- 190 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 325 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $70,7342024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 75.6%2024 5-year
- Black
- 2.9%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 4.0%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+37.7 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+45.8 in 1928MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 82, PA · twin score 88.9
presidential history
Party record book
Pennsylvania 77th 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
68.5%
7,238 votes · D+37.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Samuel J. Tilden, 1876 · 60.8%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
72.4%
4,131 votes · R+45.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1960 · 62.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
18,266votes
60.7% of the vote · D+23.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 17,869 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
12,971votes
41.6% of the vote · D+15.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 12,125 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
Grover Cleveland1892
+19.8pts D vs U.S.
Place D+21.5 · U.S. D+1.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Alton B. Parker, 1904 · +17.9 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
+28.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+45.8 · U.S. R+17.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1960 · +25.3 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 | R | 48.2%14,937 | 51.8%16,079 | 31,016 |
Pennsylvania 77th State House District sits in the Mid-Atlantic. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 37.7 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 45.8 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 15.7 points.
A population of 61,835, a 76% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $70,734 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 82 and State House District 23.
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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