- Lead
- 4,654
- Total
- 41,147
- vs nation
- R+9.8
Pennsylvania 87th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 4,828
- Total
- 38,444
- vs nation
- R+17.0
- Lead
- 7,412
- Total
- 32,271
- vs nation
- R+25.1
- Lead
- 6,902
- Total
- 29,054
- vs nation
- R+27.6
- Lead
- 5,634
- Total
- 29,638
- vs nation
- R+26.3
- Lead
- 9,227
- Total
- 27,889
- vs nation
- R+30.6
- Lead
- 7,426
- Total
- 23,077
- vs nation
- R+32.7
- Lead
- 5,035
- Total
- 20,682
- vs nation
- R+32.9
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+11.3MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 66,2502024 5-year
- Population density
- 590 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 112 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $110,4562024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 81.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 3.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 3.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+16.7 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+60.9 in 1928MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 88, PA · twin score 93.3
presidential history
Party record book
Pennsylvania 87th 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
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
52.6%
4,631 votes · D+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Samuel J. Tilden, 1876 · 51.8%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
80.0%
5,247 votes · R+60.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 74.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
17,973votes
43.7% of the vote · R+11.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 16,521 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
22,627votes
55.0% of the vote · R+11.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 21,349 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
James M. Cox1920
+7.6pts D vs U.S.
Place R+18.5 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John W. Davis, 1924 · +7.2 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
+43.4pts R vs U.S.
Place R+60.9 · U.S. R+17.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1960 · +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.
Pennsylvania 87th State House District sits in the Mid-Atlantic. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 16.7 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 60.9 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.2 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 11.3 points.
A population of 66,250, a 82% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $110,456 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 88 and State House District 106.
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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