- Lead
- 384
- Total
- 40,644
- vs nation
- D+0.5
Pennsylvania 137th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 207
- Total
- 39,077
- vs nation
- R+3.9
- Lead
- 2,219
- Total
- 31,638
- vs nation
- R+9.1
- Lead
- 446
- Total
- 28,494
- vs nation
- R+2.3
- Lead
- 2,700
- Total
- 29,511
- vs nation
- D+1.9
- Lead
- 669
- Total
- 27,691
- vs nation
- Even
- Lead
- 538
- Total
- 22,922
- vs nation
- D+1.8
- Lead
- 1,356
- Total
- 19,607
- vs nation
- R+1.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+0.9MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 65,8122024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,403 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 46.9 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $112,1602024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 76.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 4.6%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 10.1%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+44.3 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+45.5 in 1928MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 187, PA · twin score 83.3
presidential history
Party record book
Pennsylvania 137th 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
71.9%
12,420 votes · D+44.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Samuel J. Tilden, 1876 · 61.8%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
72.5%
8,453 votes · R+45.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 62.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
19,920votes
49.0% of the vote · R+0.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 19,407 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
20,304votes
50.0% of the vote · R+0.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 19,200 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
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
+21.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+44.3 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Grover Cleveland, 1892 · +14.8 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
+28.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+45.5 · U.S. R+17.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1932 · +13.9 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.
With a 2024 presidential margin under one point, this 65,000-resident district sits at the razor's edge of Pennsylvania's competitive suburban-to-rural political geography, making it a reliable bellwether for statewide swings.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 44.3 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 45.5 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.5 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 0.9 points.
A population of 65,812, a 76% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $112,160 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 187 and State House District 131.
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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