- Lead
- 20,084
- Total
- 43,080
- vs nation
- D+48.1
Pennsylvania 148th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 21,813
- Total
- 42,499
- vs nation
- D+46.9
- Lead
- 17,716
- Total
- 36,927
- vs nation
- D+45.9
- Lead
- 14,709
- Total
- 34,271
- vs nation
- D+39.1
- Lead
- 17,215
- Total
- 35,763
- vs nation
- D+40.9
- Lead
- 13,462
- Total
- 33,037
- vs nation
- D+43.2
- Lead
- 10,507
- Total
- 27,241
- vs nation
- D+38.1
- Lead
- 8,278
- Total
- 23,451
- vs nation
- D+26.8
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+46.6MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 63,5742024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,141 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 29.7 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $170,3632024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 79.6%2024 5-year
- Black
- 4.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 3.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+51.3 in 2020MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+34.9 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- 13th Middlesex District, MA · twin score 95.7
presidential history
Party record book
Pennsylvania 148th 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
Joe Biden2020
75.3%
32,009 votes · D+51.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 73.8%
Republican
Calvin Coolidge1924
65.0%
2,525 votes · R+34.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 63.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
32,009votes
75.3% of the vote · D+51.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 31,401 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
11,317votes
26.3% of the vote · D+46.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 10,196 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
Kamala Harris2024
+48.1pts D vs U.S.
Place D+46.6 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +46.9 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1932
+19.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+2.1 · U.S. D+17.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · +9.8 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 | 61.4%22,824 | 38.6%14,367 | 37,191 |
With a 2024 presidential margin exceeding 46 points Democratic, this Philadelphia-area district ranks among the most reliably one-sided constituencies in the state, reflecting the dense urban electorate characteristic of the city's core neighborhoods.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 51.3 points in 2020 and a Republican high of 34.9 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 46.6 points.
A population of 63,574, a 80% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $170,363 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of 13th Middlesex District and 10th Suffolk District.
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 148th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/42148/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.