- Lead
- 4,956
- Total
- 122,020
- vs nation
- D+5.5
Pennsylvania 22nd State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 12,054
- Total
- 122,460
- vs nation
- D+5.4
- Lead
- 4,851
- Total
- 111,387
- vs nation
- D+2.3
- Lead
- 29,929
- Total
- 106,721
- vs nation
- D+24.2
- Lead
- 33,185
- Total
- 117,096
- vs nation
- D+21.1
- Lead
- 21,716
- Total
- 114,690
- vs nation
- D+21.4
- Lead
- 27,335
- Total
- 103,642
- vs nation
- D+25.9
- Lead
- 26,079
- Total
- 93,304
- vs nation
- D+19.4
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+4.1MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 250,4912024 5-year
- Population density
- 889 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 282 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $62,4812024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 75.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 5.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 11.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+52.1 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+25.2 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 40, PA · twin score 88.0
presidential history
Party record book
Pennsylvania 22nd 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
75.7%
100,680 votes · D+52.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 65.1%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
59.4%
19,995 votes · R+23.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 57.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
100,680votes
75.7% of the vote · D+52.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 94,440 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
64,952votes
50.5% of the vote · R+1.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 62,369 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
Al Smith1928
+32.1pts D vs U.S.
Place D+14.6 · U.S. R+17.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · +30.1 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+4.5pts R vs U.S.
Place R+10.6 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · +3.8 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.
Pennsylvania 22nd State Senate District sits in the Mid-Atlantic. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 52.1 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 25.2 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 5.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 4.1 points.
A population of 250,491, a 76% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $62,481 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 40 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 22nd State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/42022/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.