- Lead
- 6,254
- Total
- 26,527
- vs nation
- D+25.0
Pennsylvania 177th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 7,711
- Total
- 27,075
- vs nation
- D+24.0
- Lead
- 7,985
- Total
- 24,073
- vs nation
- D+31.1
- Lead
- 8,975
- Total
- 22,573
- vs nation
- D+35.9
- Lead
- 7,594
- Total
- 24,381
- vs nation
- D+23.9
- Lead
- 5,337
- Total
- 23,738
- vs nation
- D+24.9
- Lead
- 4,992
- Total
- 19,560
- vs nation
- D+25.0
- Lead
- 5,112
- Total
- 18,676
- vs nation
- D+18.9
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+23.6MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 62,0002024 5-year
- Population density
- 10,000 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 6.2 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $60,3482024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 53.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 19.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 21.3%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+39.8 in 2012MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+83.9 in 1904MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 95, CT · twin score 89.1
presidential history
Party record book
Pennsylvania 177th 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
69.5%
15,691 votes · D+39.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 65.2%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
91.1%
16,094 votes · R+83.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1900 · 87.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
17,952votes
51.2% of the vote · D+2.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 17,247 votes
Republican
Thomas E. Dewey1948
29,902votes
69.8% of the vote · R+42.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 29,508 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
+35.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+39.8 · U.S. D+3.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · +31.1 pts
Republican
Charles E. Hughes1916
+72.2pts R vs U.S.
Place R+69.0 · U.S. D+3.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1932 · +70.6 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.
Anchored in Philadelphia, this district's D+23.6 presidential margin in 2024 reflects the dense, majority-minority urban precincts that have made it a consistent stronghold in Harrisburg delegation math.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 39.8 points in 2012 and a Republican high of 83.9 points in 1904. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 23.6 points.
A population of 62,000, a 53% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $60,348 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 95 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 177th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/42177/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.