- Lead
- 1,548
- Total
- 31,150
- vs nation
- D+6.4
Pennsylvania 82nd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 1,969
- Total
- 29,242
- vs nation
- D+2.3
- Lead
- 1,830
- Total
- 31,587
- vs nation
- D+3.7
- Lead
- 1,098
- Total
- 28,561
- vs nation
- Even
- Lead
- 4,773
- Total
- 31,284
- vs nation
- D+8.0
- Lead
- 25
- Total
- 26,301
- vs nation
- D+2.4
- Lead
- 1,255
- Total
- 20,152
- vs nation
- R+6.7
- Lead
- 742
- Total
- 19,104
- vs nation
- R+4.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+5.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 64,8662024 5-year
- Population density
- 141 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 459 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $78,7602024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 82.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 4.9%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 4.1%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+30.8 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+52.5 in 1928MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 77, PA · twin score 88.9
presidential history
Party record book
Pennsylvania 82nd 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
65.1%
7,047 votes · D+30.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Samuel J. Tilden, 1876 · 57.2%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
75.9%
4,736 votes · R+52.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1960 · 66.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
17,790votes
56.9% of the vote · D+15.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 16,194 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
14,646votes
47.0% of the vote · D+5.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · 13,902 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
+12.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+14.1 · U.S. D+1.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Alton B. Parker, 1904 · +9.7 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
+35.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+52.5 · U.S. R+17.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1960 · +32.9 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 | R | 48.2%15,670 | 51.8%16,867 | 32,537 |
The 2024 presidential margin was D+5.3, one of the narrower results among Pennsylvania's state house districts, compared with D+15.3 in 2008. About 65,900 residents lived here, with White alone at 83.9% in the 2024 ACS 5-year.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 30.8 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 52.5 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 5.0 points.
A population of 64,866, a 82% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $78,760 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 77 and State House District 73.
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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