- Lead
- 2,767
- Total
- 36,884
- vs nation
- R+6.0
Pennsylvania 118th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 996
- Total
- 35,966
- vs nation
- R+7.2
- Lead
- 2,369
- Total
- 31,631
- vs nation
- R+9.6
- Lead
- 5,001
- Total
- 29,743
- vs nation
- D+13.0
- Lead
- 5,834
- Total
- 32,538
- vs nation
- D+10.7
- Lead
- 3,135
- Total
- 32,333
- vs nation
- D+12.2
- Lead
- 4,793
- Total
- 28,894
- vs nation
- D+16.1
- Lead
- 5,464
- Total
- 26,568
- vs nation
- D+12.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+7.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 61,6692024 5-year
- Population density
- 556 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 111 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $69,1432024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 88.7%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 5.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+45.2 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+31.1 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 112, PA · twin score 98.5
presidential history
Party record book
Pennsylvania 118th 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
72.1%
26,368 votes · D+45.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 61.2%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
63.0%
12,016 votes · R+28.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · 62.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
26,368votes
72.1% of the vote · D+45.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 25,225 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
20,592votes
55.2% of the vote · R+11.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 19,762 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
Al Smith1928
+24.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+6.9 · U.S. R+17.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · +22.6 pts
Republican
Charles E. Hughes1916
+10.6pts R vs U.S.
Place R+7.4 · U.S. D+3.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · +10.5 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 118th State House District sits in the Mid-Atlantic. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 45.2 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 31.1 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 7.5 points.
A population of 61,669, a 89% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $69,143 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 112 and State House District 119.
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 118th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/42118/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.