- Lead
- 4,257
- Total
- 42,074
- vs nation
- R+8.6
Pennsylvania 131st State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 3,395
- Total
- 40,016
- vs nation
- R+12.9
- Lead
- 5,081
- Total
- 33,177
- vs nation
- R+17.4
- Lead
- 4,881
- Total
- 30,427
- vs nation
- R+19.9
- Lead
- 2,665
- Total
- 30,865
- vs nation
- R+15.9
- Lead
- 6,022
- Total
- 30,080
- vs nation
- R+17.6
- Lead
- 5,096
- Total
- 24,431
- vs nation
- R+21.4
- Lead
- 3,883
- Total
- 22,322
- vs nation
- R+25.9
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+10.1MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 65,1732024 5-year
- Population density
- 539 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 121 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $115,4092024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 86.6%2024 5-year
- Black
- 2.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 5.0%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+12.7 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+65.6 in 1928MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 147, PA · twin score 93.5
presidential history
Party record book
Pennsylvania 131st 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
50.2%
9,126 votes · D+0.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 45.2%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
82.3%
9,408 votes · R+65.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 74.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
18,704votes
44.5% of the vote · R+10.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 18,068 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
22,961votes
54.6% of the vote · R+10.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 21,463 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
Woodrow Wilson1912
−6.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+12.7 · U.S. D+19.5 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · −8.6 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1932
+48.4pts R vs U.S.
Place R+30.6 · U.S. D+17.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · +48.1 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 | D | 55.9%19,494 | 44.1%15,410 | 34,904 |
Pennsylvania 131st State House District sits in the Mid-Atlantic. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 12.7 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 65.6 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 10.1 points.
A population of 65,173, a 87% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $115,409 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 147 and State House District 143.
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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