- Lead
- 14,656
- Total
- 38,729
- vs nation
- D+39.3
Pennsylvania 149th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 15,695
- Total
- 37,635
- vs nation
- D+37.2
- Lead
- 11,505
- Total
- 30,984
- vs nation
- D+35.0
- Lead
- 9,041
- Total
- 28,806
- vs nation
- D+27.5
- Lead
- 11,112
- Total
- 29,871
- vs nation
- D+29.9
- Lead
- 8,071
- Total
- 27,794
- vs nation
- D+31.5
- Lead
- 6,174
- Total
- 22,929
- vs nation
- D+26.4
- Lead
- 4,783
- Total
- 20,167
- vs nation
- D+15.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+37.8MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 64,3792024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,333 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 27.6 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $123,4782024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 67.5%2024 5-year
- Black
- 8.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 6.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+41.7 in 2020MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+44.4 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- 23rd Middlesex District, MA · twin score 95.3
presidential history
Party record book
Pennsylvania 149th 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
70.4%
26,486 votes · D+41.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 68.3%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
69.2%
4,264 votes · R+39.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 69.0%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
26,486votes
70.4% of the vote · D+41.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 26,462 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
11,806votes
30.5% of the vote · D+37.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 10,791 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
+39.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+37.8 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +37.2 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1932
+32.8pts R vs U.S.
Place R+15.0 · U.S. D+17.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Thomas E. Dewey, 1948 · +22.8 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%23,113 | 38.6%14,549 | 37,662 |
With a 2024 presidential margin of D+37.8, this Philadelphia-area district ranks among Pennsylvania's most reliably one-sided legislative constituencies, reflecting the dense urban concentration that defines its electorate.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 41.7 points in 2020 and a Republican high of 44.4 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 37.8 points.
A population of 64,379, a 68% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $123,478 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of 23rd Middlesex District and State House District 148.
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 149th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/42149/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.