- Lead
- 1,109
- Total
- 107,423
- vs nation
- D+0.4
Pennsylvania 5th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 7,587
- Total
- 115,261
- vs nation
- D+2.1
- Lead
- 10,728
- Total
- 106,790
- vs nation
- D+8.0
- Lead
- 16,432
- Total
- 99,472
- vs nation
- D+12.7
- Lead
- 7,995
- Total
- 109,413
- vs nation
- Even
- Lead
- 2,623
- Total
- 109,192
- vs nation
- D+0.1
- Lead
- 1,047
- Total
- 88,968
- vs nation
- D+0.7
- Lead
- 4,161
- Total
- 83,006
- vs nation
- R+3.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+1.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 266,7692024 5-year
- Population density
- 7,732 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 34.5 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $68,0392024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 59.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 13.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 12.0%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+16.5 in 2012MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+90.3 in 1904MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 2, NJ · twin score 75.3
presidential history
Party record book
Pennsylvania 5th 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
57.9%
57,567 votes · D+16.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 53.6%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
94.8%
97,659 votes · R+90.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1900 · 92.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
65,753votes
38.9% of the vote · R+21.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 61,061 votes
Republican
Thomas E. Dewey1948
182,118votes
79.4% of the vote · R+60.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 179,642 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
+12.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+16.5 · U.S. D+3.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · +8.0 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1932
+86.2pts R vs U.S.
Place R+68.4 · U.S. D+17.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Charles E. Hughes, 1916 · +83.1 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 5th State Senate District sits in the Mid-Atlantic. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 16.5 points in 2012 and a Republican high of 90.3 points in 1904. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 7.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 1.0 points.
A population of 266,769, a 59% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $68,039 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 2 and State Senate District 23.
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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Pennsylvania 5th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/42005/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.