- Lead
- 23,748
- Total
- 155,309
- vs nation
- R+13.8
Pennsylvania 36th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 24,597
- Total
- 149,677
- vs nation
- R+20.9
- Lead
- 29,724
- Total
- 129,404
- vs nation
- R+25.1
- Lead
- 27,060
- Total
- 117,868
- vs nation
- R+26.8
- Lead
- 19,184
- Total
- 120,524
- vs nation
- R+23.2
- Lead
- 42,439
- Total
- 117,453
- vs nation
- R+33.7
- Lead
- 35,872
- Total
- 93,300
- vs nation
- R+39.0
- Lead
- 25,979
- Total
- 82,709
- vs nation
- R+39.9
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+15.3MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 268,8422024 5-year
- Population density
- 806 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 334 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $89,8282024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 84.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 2.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 7.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Republican margin
- R+65.4 in 1928MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 34, PA · twin score 82.7
presidential history
Party record book
Pennsylvania 36th 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
47.9%
26,409 votes · R+4.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 44.7%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
82.3%
30,319 votes · R+65.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · 77.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
64,746votes
41.7% of the vote · R+15.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 61,112 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
88,494votes
57.0% of the vote · R+15.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 85,709 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
−13.8pts D vs U.S.
Place R+15.3 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · −20.9 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
+48.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+65.4 · U.S. R+17.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · +44.2 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.
| Year | Vote lead | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | R | 39.7%54,193 | 60.3%82,216 | 136,409 |
| 2020 | R | 39.6%52,911 | 60.4%80,700 | 133,611 |
Pennsylvania 36th State Senate District sits in the Mid-Atlantic. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Republican high of 65.4 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.1 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 15.3 points.
A population of 268,842, a 84% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $89,828 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 34 and State Senate District 8.
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 36th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/42036/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.