- Lead
- 12,532
- Total
- 37,450
- vs nation
- R+32.0
Pennsylvania 196th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 12,268
- Total
- 36,241
- vs nation
- R+38.3
- Lead
- 11,829
- Total
- 30,850
- vs nation
- R+40.4
- Lead
- 8,802
- Total
- 28,069
- vs nation
- R+35.2
- Lead
- 6,877
- Total
- 28,373
- vs nation
- R+31.5
- Lead
- 10,153
- Total
- 26,696
- vs nation
- R+35.6
- Lead
- 7,374
- Total
- 21,421
- vs nation
- R+34.9
- Lead
- 4,181
- Total
- 18,864
- vs nation
- R+30.7
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+33.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 65,8922024 5-year
- Population density
- 508 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 130 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $86,4392024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 86.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 3.6%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 5.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+23.6 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+65.6 in 1928MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 169, PA · twin score 98.3
presidential history
Party record book
Pennsylvania 196th 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
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
58.1%
7,569 votes · D+16.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Winfield S. Hancock, 1880 · 54.8%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
82.3%
7,384 votes · R+65.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 73.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
12,290votes
32.8% of the vote · R+33.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 11,727 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
24,822votes
66.3% of the vote · R+33.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 23,995 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
Woodrow Wilson1912
+4.1pts D vs U.S.
Place D+23.6 · U.S. D+19.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Grover Cleveland, 1892 · +3.0 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
+48.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+65.6 · U.S. R+17.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · +40.4 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 196 recorded a 33.5-point Republican presidential margin in 2024, placing it among the commonwealth's most one-sided legislative constituencies. Its voter profile reflects the rural or exurban character common to deeply red Pennsylvania districts.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 23.6 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 65.6 points in 1928. The 2024 margin was 33.5 points.
A population of 65,892, a 86% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $86,439 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 169 and State House District 92.
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 196th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/42196/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.