- Lead
- 11,606
- Total
- 19,498
- vs nation
- D+61.0
Pennsylvania 179th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 15,082
- Total
- 21,472
- vs nation
- D+65.8
- Lead
- 17,384
- Total
- 21,569
- vs nation
- D+78.5
- Lead
- 17,759
- Total
- 21,184
- vs nation
- D+80.0
- Lead
- 17,689
- Total
- 21,764
- vs nation
- D+74.0
- Lead
- 15,646
- Total
- 20,210
- vs nation
- D+79.9
- Lead
- 13,026
- Total
- 16,922
- vs nation
- D+76.5
- Lead
- 12,227
- Total
- 15,820
- vs nation
- D+68.8
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+59.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 61,1962024 5-year
- Population density
- 14,232 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 4.3 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $42,0682024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 11.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 42.4%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 36.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+83.8 in 2012MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+48.2 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 203, PA · twin score 98.7
presidential history
Party record book
Pennsylvania 179th 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
91.8%
19,446 votes · D+83.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 90.5%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
71.2%
3,971 votes · R+43.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 68.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
22,161votes
83.9% of the vote · D+67.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 20,566 votes
Republican
Thomas E. Dewey1948
7,516votes
33.5% of the vote · D+30.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 7,344 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
+80.0pts D vs U.S.
Place D+83.8 · U.S. D+3.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John Kerry, 2004 · +79.9 pts
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
+23.8pts R vs U.S.
Place R+43.4 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · +23.0 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.
| Year | Vote lead | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | D | 93.4%11,155 | 6.6%790 | 11,945 |
With a 2024 presidential margin of D+59.5, this Philadelphia-area district ranks among the most reliably blue state house seats in Pennsylvania, reflecting dense urban population patterns and a heavily Democratic voter base.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 83.8 points in 2012 and a Republican high of 48.2 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 10.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 59.5 points.
A population of 61,196, a 11% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $42,068 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 203 and State House District 197.
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 179th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/42179/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.