- Lead
- 9,474
- Total
- 34,278
- vs nation
- D+29.1
Pennsylvania 163rd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 8,944
- Total
- 35,288
- vs nation
- D+20.9
- Lead
- 4,732
- Total
- 32,298
- vs nation
- D+12.6
- Lead
- 4,120
- Total
- 30,776
- vs nation
- D+9.5
- Lead
- 4,287
- Total
- 32,102
- vs nation
- D+6.1
- Lead
- 2,048
- Total
- 30,797
- vs nation
- D+9.1
- Lead
- 1,050
- Total
- 26,819
- vs nation
- D+3.4
- Lead
- 708
- Total
- 25,735
- vs nation
- R+5.8
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+27.6MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 63,6452024 5-year
- Population density
- 8,718 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 7.3 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $77,4412024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 58.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 27.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 4.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+27.6 in 2024MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+69.2 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 32, PA · twin score 85.9
presidential history
Party record book
Pennsylvania 163rd 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
Kamala Harris2024
63.2%
21,674 votes · D+27.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 61.7%
Republican
Calvin Coolidge1924
80.3%
4,966 votes · R+69.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · 78.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
21,785votes
61.7% of the vote · D+25.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 21,674 votes
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
20,676votes
66.9% of the vote · R+36.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 19,107 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
+29.1pts D vs U.S.
Place D+27.6 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +20.9 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1932
+62.8pts R vs U.S.
Place R+45.1 · U.S. D+17.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · +49.6 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.
With a 2024 presidential margin of D+27.6, this 63,000-resident district ranks among the most reliably Democratic constituencies in the Pennsylvania House, signaling a dense, urban-anchored electorate with consistent partisan alignment.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 27.6 points in 2024 and a Republican high of 69.2 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.3 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 27.6 points.
A population of 63,645, a 58% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $77,441 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 32 and State House District 34.
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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