- Lead
- 2,624
- Total
- 114,004
- vs nation
- D+3.8
Pennsylvania 11th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 8,770
- Total
- 113,486
- vs nation
- D+3.3
- Lead
- 7,391
- Total
- 104,456
- vs nation
- D+5.0
- Lead
- 16,290
- Total
- 98,637
- vs nation
- D+12.7
- Lead
- 27,657
- Total
- 106,174
- vs nation
- D+18.8
- Lead
- 10,290
- Total
- 94,103
- vs nation
- D+13.4
- Lead
- 6,394
- Total
- 77,217
- vs nation
- D+7.8
- Lead
- 7,145
- Total
- 69,229
- vs nation
- D+1.8
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+2.3MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 263,0982024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,294 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 203 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $71,0882024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 55.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 5.9%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 34.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+48.0 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+24.3 in 1928MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 14, PA · twin score 94.7
presidential history
Party record book
Pennsylvania 11th 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
73.7%
49,938 votes · D+47.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Samuel J. Tilden, 1876 · 73.1%
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
57.8%
35,601 votes · R+16.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 57.0%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
66,178votes
62.3% of the vote · D+26.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 60,332 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
55,133votes
48.4% of the vote · D+2.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 51,562 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
Grover Cleveland1892
+43.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+45.3 · U.S. D+1.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1900 · +39.7 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
+6.8pts R vs U.S.
Place R+24.3 · U.S. R+17.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George H. W. Bush, 1988 · +0.9 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.
Covering a stretch of south-central Pennsylvania, this district backed the 2024 Republican presidential nominee by 12.2 points, reflecting the rural and small-town demographic profile that has defined its electoral pattern for more than a decade.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 48.0 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 24.3 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 5.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 2.3 points.
A population of 263,098, a 55% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $71,088 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 14 and State Senate District 25.
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 11th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/42011/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.