- Lead
- 2,420
- Total
- 30,165
- vs nation
- D+9.5
Pennsylvania 189th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 4,389
- Total
- 29,272
- vs nation
- D+10.5
- Lead
- 2,459
- Total
- 24,710
- vs nation
- D+7.9
- Lead
- 5,358
- Total
- 22,519
- vs nation
- D+19.9
- Lead
- 6,770
- Total
- 24,293
- vs nation
- D+20.6
- Lead
- 2,521
- Total
- 19,854
- vs nation
- D+15.2
- Lead
- 1,879
- Total
- 16,464
- vs nation
- D+10.9
- Lead
- 1,502
- Total
- 13,495
- vs nation
- D+2.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+8.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 61,7942024 5-year
- Population density
- 275 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 224 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $78,7972024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 57.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 15.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 19.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+73.2 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+27.0 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 115, PA · twin score 96.6
presidential history
Party record book
Pennsylvania 189th 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
Samuel J. Tilden1876
85.6%
1,451 votes · D+71.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Winfield S. Hancock, 1880 · 82.5%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
62.5%
3,680 votes · R+27.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 60.0%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
16,674votes
57.0% of the vote · D+15.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 16,115 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
13,695votes
45.4% of the vote · D+8.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 12,285 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
Alton B. Parker1904
+63.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+43.9 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Grover Cleveland, 1892 · +60.6 pts
Republican
Richard Nixon1960
+14.5pts R vs U.S.
Place R+14.3 · U.S. D+0.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George H. W. Bush, 1988 · +4.1 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 189th State House District sits in the Mid-Atlantic. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 73.2 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 27.0 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 7.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 8.0 points.
A population of 61,794, a 57% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $78,797 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 115 and State House District 133.
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 189th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/42189/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.