- Lead
- 43,427
- Total
- 149,928
- vs nation
- R+27.5
Pennsylvania 28th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 41,519
- Total
- 142,711
- vs nation
- R+33.5
- Lead
- 43,182
- Total
- 124,083
- vs nation
- R+36.9
- Lead
- 31,109
- Total
- 112,095
- vs nation
- R+31.6
- Lead
- 23,383
- Total
- 114,837
- vs nation
- R+27.6
- Lead
- 36,698
- Total
- 106,834
- vs nation
- R+31.9
- Lead
- 26,712
- Total
- 85,085
- vs nation
- R+31.9
- Lead
- 13,900
- Total
- 75,046
- vs nation
- R+27.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+29.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 262,2082024 5-year
- Population density
- 437 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 600 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $88,2342024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 85.5%2024 5-year
- Black
- 3.6%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 5.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+27.7 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+65.1 in 1928MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 33, PA · twin score 94.6
presidential history
Party record book
Pennsylvania 28th 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
60.1%
31,904 votes · D+20.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 56.1%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
82.2%
28,672 votes · R+65.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 71.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
52,542votes
35.0% of the vote · R+29.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 49,504 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
95,969votes
64.0% of the vote · R+29.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 91,023 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
Woodrow Wilson1912
+8.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+27.7 · U.S. D+19.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Grover Cleveland, 1892 · +7.5 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
+47.6pts R vs U.S.
Place R+65.1 · U.S. R+17.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · +36.9 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.
In 2024 it voted Republican by R+28.9, against R+20.4 in 2008. About 307,000 residents lived here, with White alone at 81.2% in the 2024 ACS 5-year.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 27.7 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 65.1 points in 1928. The 2024 margin was 29.0 points.
A population of 262,208, a 86% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $88,234 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 33 and State Senate District 48.
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 28th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/42028/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.