- Lead
- 12,673
- Total
- 39,839
- vs nation
- R+30.3
Pennsylvania 139th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 10,291
- Total
- 37,146
- vs nation
- R+32.2
- Lead
- 10,560
- Total
- 30,598
- vs nation
- R+36.6
- Lead
- 5,231
- Total
- 26,997
- vs nation
- R+23.2
- Lead
- 3,327
- Total
- 28,307
- vs nation
- R+19.0
- Lead
- 6,429
- Total
- 25,884
- vs nation
- R+22.4
- Lead
- 4,320
- Total
- 21,569
- vs nation
- R+20.5
- Lead
- 2,501
- Total
- 18,107
- vs nation
- R+22.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+31.8MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 63,1782024 5-year
- Population density
- 105 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 599 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $76,9822024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 86.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 7.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+29.5 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+56.3 in 1956MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 111, PA · twin score 92.7
presidential history
Party record book
Pennsylvania 139th 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
Samuel J. Tilden1876
61.1%
2,653 votes · D+22.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Winfield S. Hancock, 1880 · 55.0%
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
78.1%
7,869 votes · R+56.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 77.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
13,435votes
33.7% of the vote · R+31.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 13,241 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
26,108votes
65.5% of the vote · R+31.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 23,532 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
+9.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+29.5 · U.S. D+19.5 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Grover Cleveland, 1892 · +8.3 pts
Republican
Thomas E. Dewey1948
+55.7pts R vs U.S.
Place R+51.3 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Thomas E. Dewey, 1944 · +53.2 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 of R+31.8, this district ranks among the most reliably Republican in the state, suggesting a rural or exurban electorate with consistently lopsided down-ballot results.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 29.5 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 56.3 points in 1956. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 31.8 points.
A population of 63,178, a 86% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $76,982 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 111 and State House District 48.
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 139th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/42139/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.