- Lead
- 3,937
- Total
- 35,927
- vs nation
- D+12.4
Pennsylvania 162nd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 5,247
- Total
- 36,450
- vs nation
- D+9.9
- Lead
- 3,431
- Total
- 32,932
- vs nation
- D+8.3
- Lead
- 2,888
- Total
- 31,354
- vs nation
- D+5.4
- Lead
- 2,921
- Total
- 32,706
- vs nation
- D+1.7
- Lead
- 721
- Total
- 31,628
- vs nation
- D+4.7
- Lead
- 95
- Total
- 27,606
- vs nation
- R+0.9
- Lead
- 331
- Total
- 26,251
- vs nation
- R+9.8
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+11.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 64,7812024 5-year
- Population density
- 6,544 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 9.9 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $80,3192024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 67.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 22.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 3.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+14.4 in 2020MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+75.3 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 161, PA · twin score 87.8
presidential history
Party record book
Pennsylvania 162nd 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
56.3%
20,534 votes · D+14.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 55.0%
Republican
Calvin Coolidge1924
85.5%
5,355 votes · R+75.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · 82.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
20,534votes
56.3% of the vote · D+14.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 19,760 votes
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
22,325votes
69.1% of the vote · R+40.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 20,620 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
+12.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+11.0 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +9.9 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1932
+66.7pts R vs U.S.
Place R+48.9 · U.S. D+17.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · +59.7 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.
Anchored in the Philadelphia region, this 64,000-person district returned an 11.0-point Democratic presidential margin in 2024, reflecting the dense suburban and urban patterns that have defined its electoral consistency in recent cycles.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 14.4 points in 2020 and a Republican high of 75.3 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 11.0 points.
A population of 64,781, a 67% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $80,319 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 161 and Assembly District 128.
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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