- Lead
- 2,295
- Total
- 42,672
- vs nation
- D+6.9
Pennsylvania 160th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 2,831
- Total
- 42,367
- vs nation
- D+2.2
- Lead
- 414
- Total
- 37,017
- vs nation
- R+3.2
- Lead
- 2,068
- Total
- 35,112
- vs nation
- R+9.7
- Lead
- 903
- Total
- 36,079
- vs nation
- R+9.8
- Lead
- 4,083
- Total
- 34,372
- vs nation
- R+9.4
- Lead
- 4,447
- Total
- 29,413
- vs nation
- R+15.6
- Lead
- 3,824
- Total
- 26,995
- vs nation
- R+22.7
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+5.4MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 63,9312024 5-year
- Population density
- 942 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 67.9 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $154,3782024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 81.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 3.4%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 3.1%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+6.7 in 2020MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+75.5 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 31, PA · twin score 94.5
presidential history
Party record book
Pennsylvania 160th 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
52.8%
22,385 votes · D+6.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 52.2%
Republican
Calvin Coolidge1924
85.6%
5,662 votes · R+75.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 82.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
22,385votes
52.8% of the vote · D+6.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 22,291 votes
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
22,593votes
74.7% of the vote · R+50.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 22,144 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
+6.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+5.4 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +2.2 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1932
+74.5pts R vs U.S.
Place R+56.7 · U.S. D+17.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · +53.6 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+5.4, against R+2.5 in 2008, having changed party at least once across the five cycles. About 140,000 residents lived here, with White alone at 65.3% in the 2024 ACS 5-year.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 6.7 points in 2020 and a Republican high of 75.5 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 5.4 points.
A population of 63,931, a 81% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $154,378 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 31 and State House District 29.
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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