- Lead
- 10,158
- Total
- 42,430
- vs nation
- D+25.4
Pennsylvania 166th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 11,333
- Total
- 41,925
- vs nation
- D+22.6
- Lead
- 8,181
- Total
- 37,580
- vs nation
- D+19.7
- Lead
- 7,429
- Total
- 35,763
- vs nation
- D+16.9
- Lead
- 7,732
- Total
- 37,362
- vs nation
- D+13.4
- Lead
- 5,070
- Total
- 35,645
- vs nation
- D+16.7
- Lead
- 3,513
- Total
- 31,105
- vs nation
- D+10.8
- Lead
- 2,756
- Total
- 29,766
- vs nation
- D+0.7
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+23.9MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 63,0222024 5-year
- Population density
- 4,668 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 13.5 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $129,5862024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 84.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 3.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 2.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+27.0 in 2020MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+69.2 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 165, PA · twin score 99.3
presidential history
Party record book
Pennsylvania 166th 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
63.0%
26,432 votes · D+27.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 61.5%
Republican
Calvin Coolidge1924
81.7%
5,303 votes · R+69.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · 77.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
26,432votes
63.0% of the vote · D+27.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 26,092 votes
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
22,108votes
64.3% of the vote · R+30.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 20,448 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
+25.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+23.9 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +22.6 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1932
+56.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+39.1 · U.S. D+17.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · +45.4 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+23.9, District 166 ranks among Pennsylvania's more reliably one-sided legislative seats, reflecting the dense urban or inner-suburban demographics typical of the Philadelphia region.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 27.0 points in 2020 and a Republican high of 69.2 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 23.9 points.
A population of 63,022, a 84% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $129,586 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 165 and State House District 168.
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 166th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/42166/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.