- Lead
- 7,721
- Total
- 36,435
- vs nation
- D+22.7
Pennsylvania 96th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 7,954
- Total
- 35,925
- vs nation
- D+17.7
- Lead
- 5,181
- Total
- 32,055
- vs nation
- D+14.1
- Lead
- 5,209
- Total
- 29,174
- vs nation
- D+14.0
- Lead
- 7,893
- Total
- 31,046
- vs nation
- D+18.2
- Lead
- 1,225
- Total
- 27,586
- vs nation
- D+6.9
- Lead
- 129
- Total
- 21,502
- vs nation
- D+0.1
- Lead
- 1,124
- Total
- 19,685
- vs nation
- R+2.8
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+21.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 63,3542024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,960 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 21.4 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $86,7062024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 69.7%2024 5-year
- Black
- 5.8%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 14.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+36.7 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+34.5 in 1928MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 8, OH · twin score 74.2
presidential history
Party record book
Pennsylvania 96th 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
68.2%
10,153 votes · D+36.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 64.7%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
66.6%
4,963 votes · R+34.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 58.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
21,817votes
59.9% of the vote · D+21.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 21,554 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
14,096votes
38.7% of the vote · D+21.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 13,600 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
Kamala Harris2024
+22.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+21.2 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · +18.2 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
+17.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+34.5 · U.S. R+17.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · +8.0 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 | 39.7%12,771 | 60.3%19,375 | 32,146 |
| 2020 | R | 39.6%12,469 | 60.4%19,017 | 31,486 |
Anchored in the inner suburbs of Philadelphia, this district's dense, diverse electorate has delivered double-digit Democratic margins in every recent presidential cycle, making it one of the more reliably blue seats in the state house.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 36.7 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 34.5 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 0.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 21.2 points.
A population of 63,354, a 70% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $86,706 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 8 and State House District 7.
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 96th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/42096/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.