- Lead
- 340
- Total
- 38,205
- vs nation
- D+0.6
Pennsylvania 88th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 558
- Total
- 37,068
- vs nation
- R+6.0
- Lead
- 3,747
- Total
- 32,554
- vs nation
- R+13.6
- Lead
- 3,463
- Total
- 29,330
- vs nation
- R+15.7
- Lead
- 2,043
- Total
- 30,175
- vs nation
- R+14.0
- Lead
- 6,019
- Total
- 27,748
- vs nation
- R+19.2
- Lead
- 4,786
- Total
- 23,320
- vs nation
- R+21.0
- Lead
- 2,745
- Total
- 20,870
- vs nation
- R+21.7
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+0.9MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 66,5992024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,422 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 27.5 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $91,2242024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 78.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 4.6%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 5.3%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+24.0 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+50.7 in 1928MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 87, PA · twin score 93.3
presidential history
Party record book
Pennsylvania 88th 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
58.8%
5,403 votes · D+18.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Winfield S. Hancock, 1880 · 58.0%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
74.9%
4,773 votes · R+50.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 70.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
18,658votes
48.8% of the vote · R+0.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 17,977 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
18,998votes
49.7% of the vote · R+0.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 18,535 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
+19.6pts D vs U.S.
Place R+6.6 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John W. Davis, 1924 · +18.1 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
+33.2pts R vs U.S.
Place R+50.7 · U.S. R+17.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1960 · +32.2 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's 88th House district sits at the sharpest edge of the state's competitive middle, where a 0.9-point presidential margin signals a constituency that swings on local candidates and turnout alike.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 24.0 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 50.7 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 0.6 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 0.9 points.
A population of 66,599, a 78% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $91,224 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 87 and State House District 32.
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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