- Lead
- 8,985
- Total
- 163,826
- vs nation
- R+4.0
Pennsylvania 6th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 282
- Total
- 163,574
- vs nation
- R+4.6
- Lead
- 2,680
- Total
- 142,465
- vs nation
- R+4.0
- Lead
- 1,982
- Total
- 133,003
- vs nation
- R+5.3
- Lead
- 8,259
- Total
- 137,870
- vs nation
- R+1.3
- Lead
- 86
- Total
- 132,669
- vs nation
- D+2.5
- Lead
- 1,649
- Total
- 108,910
- vs nation
- D+1.0
- Lead
- 1,175
- Total
- 92,887
- vs nation
- R+7.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+5.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 269,5002024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,165 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 125 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $111,1882024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 79.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 3.8%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 6.3%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+19.2 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+55.1 in 1928MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 10, PA · twin score 93.6
presidential history
Party record book
Pennsylvania 6th 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
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
59.4%
31,632 votes · D+19.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 52.4%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
77.1%
12,119 votes · R+55.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 67.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
80,865votes
49.4% of the vote · R+0.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 76,619 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
85,604votes
52.3% of the vote · R+5.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 81,147 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
John Kerry2004
+2.5pts D vs U.S.
Place D+0.1 · U.S. R+2.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Al Gore, 2000 · +1.0 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1932
+41.8pts R vs U.S.
Place R+24.1 · U.S. D+17.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · +37.6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | R | 43.4%70,957 | 56.6%92,694 | 163,651 |
Centered in the rural north-central tier, this district delivered a 5.5-point Republican presidential margin in 2024, making it among the most one-sided state senate seats in Pennsylvania's 50-district chamber.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 19.2 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 55.1 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 5.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 5.5 points.
A population of 269,500, a 79% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $111,188 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 10 and State Senate District 24.
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 6th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/42006/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.