- Lead
- 25,680
- Total
- 30,681
- vs nation
- D+85.2
Pennsylvania 188th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 25,415
- Total
- 28,197
- vs nation
- D+85.7
- Lead
- 26,121
- Total
- 29,316
- vs nation
- D+87.0
- Lead
- 26,499
- Total
- 28,952
- vs nation
- D+87.7
- Lead
- 26,610
- Total
- 29,336
- vs nation
- D+83.4
- Lead
- 23,910
- Total
- 26,868
- vs nation
- D+91.4
- Lead
- 19,879
- Total
- 22,571
- vs nation
- D+87.6
- Lead
- 17,388
- Total
- 22,099
- vs nation
- D+74.4
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+83.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 61,5642024 5-year
- Population density
- 21,987 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 2.8 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $54,9962024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 34.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 38.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 6.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+91.5 in 2012MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+13.3 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 181, PA · twin score 98.8
presidential history
Party record book
Pennsylvania 188th 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
95.1%
27,528 votes · D+91.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 94.8%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
47.4%
2,350 votes · R+3.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 43.0%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
31,302votes
92.2% of the vote · D+84.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 29,054 votes
Republican
Thomas E. Dewey1948
4,483votes
17.3% of the vote · D+60.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 4,432 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
Walter Mondale1984
+95.8pts D vs U.S.
Place D+77.6 · U.S. R+18.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George McGovern, 1972 · +91.6 pts
Republican
William H. Taft1912
−4.7pts R vs U.S.
Place D+24.2 · U.S. D+19.5 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · −11.9 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.
With a 2024 presidential margin of D+83, this Philadelphia-area district ranks among the most reliably Democratic constituencies in the state, leaving general-election outcomes rarely in doubt.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 91.5 points in 2012 and a Republican high of 13.3 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 6.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 83.7 points.
A population of 61,564, a 34% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $54,996 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 181 and State House District 186.
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.
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