- Lead
- 94,676
- Total
- 136,478
- vs nation
- D+70.8
Pennsylvania 7th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 100,615
- Total
- 136,370
- vs nation
- D+69.3
- Lead
- 95,473
- Total
- 129,779
- vs nation
- D+71.5
- Lead
- 96,175
- Total
- 126,747
- vs nation
- D+72.0
- Lead
- 96,610
- Total
- 129,680
- vs nation
- D+67.2
- Lead
- 84,483
- Total
- 120,404
- vs nation
- D+72.6
- Lead
- 70,356
- Total
- 100,823
- vs nation
- D+69.3
- Lead
- 64,930
- Total
- 95,743
- vs nation
- D+59.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+69.4MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 262,5032024 5-year
- Population density
- 6,629 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 39.6 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $61,1262024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 34.5%2024 5-year
- Black
- 51.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 4.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+75.9 in 2012MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+46.0 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 8, PA · twin score 99.1
presidential history
Party record book
Pennsylvania 7th 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
87.4%
110,840 votes · D+75.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 86.9%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
68.3%
21,325 votes · R+41.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 65.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
121,044votes
82.4% of the vote · D+65.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 117,980 votes
Republican
Thomas E. Dewey1948
41,738votes
34.1% of the vote · D+28.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 40,985 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
+72.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+70.2 · U.S. R+2.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · +72.0 pts
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
+21.4pts R vs U.S.
Place R+41.1 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · +20.8 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.
Anchored in the state's rural interior, this district backed the 2024 Republican presidential nominee by more than 20 points, a margin that places it well outside the competitive range for statewide contests.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 75.9 points in 2012 and a Republican high of 46.0 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 69.4 points.
A population of 262,503, a 35% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $61,126 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 8 and State Senate District 4.
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 7th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/42007/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.