- Lead
- 31,832
- Total
- 81,663
- vs nation
- D+40.5
Pennsylvania 2nd State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 44,961
- Total
- 89,637
- vs nation
- D+45.7
- Lead
- 54,584
- Total
- 90,537
- vs nation
- D+58.2
- Lead
- 57,049
- Total
- 87,439
- vs nation
- D+61.4
- Lead
- 54,722
- Total
- 91,873
- vs nation
- D+52.3
- Lead
- 46,140
- Total
- 86,977
- vs nation
- D+55.5
- Lead
- 39,350
- Total
- 72,255
- vs nation
- D+53.9
- Lead
- 37,374
- Total
- 67,802
- vs nation
- D+46.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+39.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 258,9492024 5-year
- Population density
- 15,790 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 16.4 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $50,5722024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 23.7%2024 5-year
- Black
- 26.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 39.1%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+65.2 in 2012MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+72.1 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 18, NY · twin score 95.8
presidential history
Party record book
Pennsylvania 2nd State Senate 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
82.4%
72,091 votes · D+65.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 79.6%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
84.8%
35,823 votes · R+71.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 82.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
82,286votes
68.4% of the vote · D+37.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 76,409 votes
Republican
Thomas E. Dewey1948
66,795votes
54.3% of the vote · R+11.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 65,865 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
+61.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+65.2 · U.S. D+3.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · +58.2 pts
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
+51.5pts R vs U.S.
Place R+71.2 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1900 · +50.3 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%47,203 | 6.6%3,343 | 50,546 |
Pennsylvania 2nd State Senate District sits in the Mid-Atlantic. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 65.2 points in 2012 and a Republican high of 72.1 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 11.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 39.0 points.
A population of 258,949, a 24% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $50,572 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 18 and State Senate District 1.
The state-senate 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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