- Lead
- 27,398
- Total
- 30,820
- vs nation
- D+90.4
Pennsylvania 201st State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 30,432
- Total
- 32,740
- vs nation
- D+88.5
- Lead
- 30,915
- Total
- 32,844
- vs nation
- D+92.0
- Lead
- 31,283
- Total
- 32,747
- vs nation
- D+91.7
- Lead
- 31,557
- Total
- 33,100
- vs nation
- D+88.1
- Lead
- 28,583
- Total
- 30,174
- vs nation
- D+97.2
- Lead
- 23,614
- Total
- 25,418
- vs nation
- D+92.4
- Lead
- 21,374
- Total
- 23,945
- vs nation
- D+82.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+88.9MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 66,0192024 5-year
- Population density
- 15,004 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 4.4 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $45,0312024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 8.8%2024 5-year
- Black
- 79.9%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 4.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+95.5 in 2012MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 190, PA · twin score 99.9
presidential history
Party record book
Pennsylvania 201st 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
97.6%
31,976 votes · D+95.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 97.6%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
35.9%
1,465 votes · D+26.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 34.0%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
36,339votes
95.8% of the vote · D+91.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 33,711 votes
Republican
Thomas E. Dewey1948
2,870votes
10.6% of the vote · D+75.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 2,852 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
+106.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+88.4 · U.S. R+18.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George McGovern, 1972 · +105.5 pts
Republican
William H. Taft1912
−21.7pts R vs U.S.
Place D+41.2 · U.S. D+19.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · −35.9 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+88.9, this Philadelphia-area district ranks among the most lopsided in the state, reflecting dense urban concentration and a voter base that delivers overwhelming Democratic margins election cycle after election cycle.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 95.5 points in 2012. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 88.9 points.
A population of 66,019, a 9% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $45,031 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 190 and State House District 191.
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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