- Lead
- 4,184
- Total
- 28,277
- vs nation
- R+13.3
Pennsylvania 170th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 2,554
- Total
- 30,171
- vs nation
- R+12.9
- Lead
- 1,198
- Total
- 26,921
- vs nation
- R+6.5
- Lead
- 456
- Total
- 24,890
- vs nation
- R+2.0
- Lead
- 2,064
- Total
- 27,698
- vs nation
- R+14.7
- Lead
- 4,801
- Total
- 28,058
- vs nation
- R+14.7
- Lead
- 3,060
- Total
- 22,663
- vs nation
- R+14.0
- Lead
- 1,864
- Total
- 21,074
- vs nation
- R+17.4
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+14.8MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 62,5882024 5-year
- Population density
- 5,742 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 10.9 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $79,2982024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 71.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 7.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 7.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+1.8 in 2012MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+92.5 in 1904MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 172, PA · twin score 83.9
presidential history
Party record book
Pennsylvania 170th 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
Barack Obama2012
50.5%
12,564 votes · D+1.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 46.4%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
95.8%
28,689 votes · R+92.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1900 · 93.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
14,333votes
32.1% of the vote · R+35.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 13,695 votes
Republican
Thomas E. Dewey1948
53,548votes
83.7% of the vote · R+69.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 52,822 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
Barack Obama2012
−2.0pts D vs U.S.
Place D+1.8 · U.S. D+3.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · −6.5 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1932
+93.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+75.3 · U.S. D+17.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Charles E. Hughes, 1916 · +87.7 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.
Pennsylvania House District 170 backed the 2024 Republican presidential nominee by 14.5 points, reflecting the exurban and small-town composition that has tilted this corner of the state consistently rightward over recent cycles.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 1.8 points in 2012 and a Republican high of 92.5 points in 1904. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 6.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 14.8 points.
A population of 62,588, a 71% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $79,298 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 172 and State House District 174.
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 170th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/42170/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.