- Lead
- 46,158
- Total
- 137,487
- vs nation
- R+32.1
Pennsylvania 35th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 42,850
- Total
- 135,474
- vs nation
- R+36.1
- Lead
- 38,720
- Total
- 121,968
- vs nation
- R+33.8
- Lead
- 19,292
- Total
- 114,095
- vs nation
- R+20.8
- Lead
- 0
- Total
- 123,566
- vs nation
- R+7.3
- Lead
- 8,462
- Total
- 120,960
- vs nation
- R+4.5
- Lead
- 4,916
- Total
- 106,064
- vs nation
- R+5.2
- Lead
- 9,599
- Total
- 102,605
- vs nation
- D+0.8
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+33.6MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 261,4082024 5-year
- Population density
- 121 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 2,157 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $62,8452024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 87.6%2024 5-year
- Black
- 3.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 2.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+32.6 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+33.6 in 2024MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 27, PA · twin score 92.8
presidential history
Party record book
Pennsylvania 35th 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
66.2%
79,695 votes · D+32.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 61.9%
Republican
Donald Trump2024
66.4%
91,241 votes · R+33.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 65.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
79,695votes
66.2% of the vote · D+32.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 71,250 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
91,241votes
66.4% of the vote · R+33.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 88,289 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
Michael Dukakis1988
+17.0pts D vs U.S.
Place D+9.2 · U.S. R+7.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Walter Mondale, 1984 · +16.5 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2020
+36.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+31.6 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · +33.8 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 35th State Senate District sits in the Mid-Atlantic. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 32.6 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 33.6 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 33.6 points.
A population of 261,408, a 88% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $62,845 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 27 and State Senate District 29.
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 35th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/42035/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.