- Lead
- 3,528
- Total
- 30,983
- vs nation
- D+12.9
Pennsylvania 136th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 4,224
- Total
- 29,828
- vs nation
- D+9.7
- Lead
- 3,098
- Total
- 25,624
- vs nation
- D+10.0
- Lead
- 4,877
- Total
- 23,647
- vs nation
- D+16.8
- Lead
- 6,927
- Total
- 24,771
- vs nation
- D+20.7
- Lead
- 3,885
- Total
- 22,481
- vs nation
- D+19.7
- Lead
- 3,954
- Total
- 18,761
- vs nation
- D+20.6
- Lead
- 3,761
- Total
- 16,698
- vs nation
- D+14.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+11.4MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 63,5242024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,516 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 41.9 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $80,6022024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 63.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 10.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 18.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+58.7 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+27.9 in 1928MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 135, PA · twin score 91.1
presidential history
Party record book
Pennsylvania 136th 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
79.1%
12,169 votes · D+58.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Samuel J. Tilden, 1876 · 73.4%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
63.6%
5,529 votes · R+27.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 51.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
17,096votes
55.2% of the vote · D+11.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 16,776 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
13,568votes
43.8% of the vote · D+11.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 12,552 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
Grover Cleveland1892
+36.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+38.3 · U.S. D+1.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · +36.1 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
+10.5pts R vs U.S.
Place R+27.9 · U.S. R+17.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1932 · −4.9 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.
In 2024 it voted Democratic by D+11.4, against D+28.0 in 2008. The district had about 36,400 residents, 74.2% White alone in the 2024 ACS 5-year.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 58.7 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 27.9 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 11.4 points.
A population of 63,524, a 63% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $80,602 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 135 and Assembly District 104.
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 136th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/42136/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.