- Lead
- 752
- Total
- 25,134
- vs nation
- D+4.5
Pennsylvania 174th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 3,050
- Total
- 26,691
- vs nation
- D+7.0
- Lead
- 3,898
- Total
- 24,975
- vs nation
- D+13.5
- Lead
- 5,178
- Total
- 23,406
- vs nation
- D+18.3
- Lead
- 3,359
- Total
- 25,591
- vs nation
- D+5.9
- Lead
- 863
- Total
- 25,393
- vs nation
- D+5.9
- Lead
- 1,400
- Total
- 20,690
- vs nation
- D+6.2
- Lead
- 1,989
- Total
- 19,318
- vs nation
- D+1.8
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+3.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 62,7242024 5-year
- Population density
- 8,363 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 7.5 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $68,3852024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 58.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 13.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 10.3%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+22.1 in 2012MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+89.2 in 1904MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 172, PA · twin score 95.4
presidential history
Party record book
Pennsylvania 174th 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
60.7%
14,200 votes · D+22.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 56.5%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
94.2%
21,396 votes · R+89.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1900 · 91.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
16,194votes
41.7% of the vote · R+16.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 15,032 votes
Republican
Thomas E. Dewey1948
39,937votes
77.6% of the vote · R+57.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 39,388 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
+18.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+22.1 · U.S. D+3.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · +13.5 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1932
+83.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+65.3 · U.S. D+17.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Charles E. Hughes, 1916 · +80.9 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 174 sits within Pennsylvania's densely populated southeastern corner, where a D+3.0 presidential margin in 2024 marks it as a genuine swing target in state legislative contests.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 22.1 points in 2012 and a Republican high of 89.2 points in 1904. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 8.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 3.0 points.
A population of 62,724, a 59% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $68,385 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 173.
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 174th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/42174/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.