- Lead
- 28,087
- Total
- 145,078
- vs nation
- D+20.8
Pennsylvania 26th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 33,408
- Total
- 147,197
- vs nation
- D+18.2
- Lead
- 23,449
- Total
- 133,063
- vs nation
- D+15.5
- Lead
- 20,961
- Total
- 127,031
- vs nation
- D+12.6
- Lead
- 21,826
- Total
- 132,317
- vs nation
- D+9.2
- Lead
- 12,497
- Total
- 126,875
- vs nation
- D+12.3
- Lead
- 7,637
- Total
- 110,721
- vs nation
- D+6.4
- Lead
- 5,787
- Total
- 105,126
- vs nation
- R+3.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+19.4MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 254,8522024 5-year
- Population density
- 4,790 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 53.2 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $89,3352024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 63.6%2024 5-year
- Black
- 19.4%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 4.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+22.7 in 2020MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+70.5 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 9, PA · twin score 95.4
presidential history
Party record book
Pennsylvania 26th 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
Joe Biden2020
60.6%
89,272 votes · D+22.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 59.1%
Republican
Calvin Coolidge1924
82.0%
19,851 votes · R+70.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · 79.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
89,272votes
60.6% of the vote · D+22.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 85,707 votes
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
82,648votes
66.0% of the vote · R+34.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 76,337 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
Kamala Harris2024
+20.8pts D vs U.S.
Place D+19.4 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +18.2 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1932
+60.6pts R vs U.S.
Place R+42.8 · U.S. D+17.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · +50.7 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.
Its Democratic presidential margin was D+19.4 in 2024 and D+16.5 in 2008. The district had about 164,000 residents, 63.2% White alone in the 2024 ACS 5-year.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 22.7 points in 2020 and a Republican high of 70.5 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 19.4 points.
A population of 254,852, a 64% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $89,335 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 9 and State Senate District 17.
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 26th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/42026/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.