- Lead
- 7,628
- Total
- 28,372
- vs nation
- R+25.4
Pennsylvania 83rd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 7,682
- Total
- 28,503
- vs nation
- R+31.4
- Lead
- 7,531
- Total
- 25,210
- vs nation
- R+32.0
- Lead
- 4,135
- Total
- 23,559
- vs nation
- R+21.4
- Lead
- 1,984
- Total
- 25,375
- vs nation
- R+15.1
- Lead
- 5,153
- Total
- 24,984
- vs nation
- R+18.2
- Lead
- 3,005
- Total
- 21,745
- vs nation
- R+14.3
- Lead
- 1,266
- Total
- 20,082
- vs nation
- R+14.8
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+26.9MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 64,4872024 5-year
- Population density
- 308 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 210 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $58,4012024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 79.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 10.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 3.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+35.0 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+47.8 in 1928MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 102, PA · twin score 90.8
presidential history
Party record book
Pennsylvania 83rd 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
65.0%
15,330 votes · D+30.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Grover Cleveland, 1892 · 57.6%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
73.3%
12,038 votes · R+47.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 62.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
15,330votes
65.0% of the vote · D+30.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 11,402 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
17,891votes
62.8% of the vote · R+27.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 17,859 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
+21.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+22.9 · U.S. D+1.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1900 · +17.5 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2016
+32.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+29.9 · U.S. D+2.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · +31.4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | R | 30.5%7,037 | 69.5%16,033 | 23,070 |
With a 26.9-point Republican presidential margin in 2024, this district sits among the most heavily one-sided state house seats in Pennsylvania, reflecting the rural or small-town composition typical of such concentrated partisan geography.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 35.0 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 47.8 points in 1928. The 2024 margin was 26.9 points.
A population of 64,487, a 79% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $58,401 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 102 and State House District 86.
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 83rd State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/42083/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.