- Lead
- 8,015
- Total
- 39,717
- vs nation
- D+21.7
Pennsylvania 168th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 8,835
- Total
- 37,596
- vs nation
- D+19.0
- Lead
- 5,081
- Total
- 32,484
- vs nation
- D+13.6
- Lead
- 4,490
- Total
- 30,961
- vs nation
- D+10.6
- Lead
- 4,706
- Total
- 32,184
- vs nation
- D+7.3
- Lead
- 2,426
- Total
- 30,949
- vs nation
- D+10.3
- Lead
- 1,289
- Total
- 27,137
- vs nation
- D+4.2
- Lead
- 939
- Total
- 25,866
- vs nation
- R+4.9
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+20.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 62,9612024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,464 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 43 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $145,5912024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 81.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 3.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 3.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+23.5 in 2020MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+73.7 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 166, PA · twin score 95.1
presidential history
Party record book
Pennsylvania 168th 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
61.2%
23,013 votes · D+23.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 59.6%
Republican
Calvin Coolidge1924
84.2%
4,958 votes · R+73.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · 80.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
23,679votes
59.6% of the vote · D+20.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 23,013 votes
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
20,660votes
67.2% of the vote · R+35.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 19,081 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
+21.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+20.2 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +19.0 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1932
+62.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+44.5 · U.S. D+17.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · +52.1 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.
District 168 sits within one of Pennsylvania's most reliably Democratic corridors, where presidential candidates have posted double-digit margins consistently enough to make it a baseline for measuring statewide performance against urban anchors.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 23.5 points in 2020 and a Republican high of 73.7 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 20.2 points.
A population of 62,961, a 82% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $145,591 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 166 and State House District 165.
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 168th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/42168/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.