Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA Metro Area — Elections 1876–2024

2024 presidential election

Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA

TrumpR+11.2

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How it voted

Share of the 2024 vote

Donald Trump ✓Republican	55.1%	158,927
Kamala HarrisDemocratic	43.9%	126,694
OtherAll other candidates	1.0%	2,831

D+60

R+60

3 counties, each filled by 2024 D-vs-R margin. Hover any county for its result.

presidential history

Presidential margin, 1876–2024

Democratic minus Republican, by election

Presidential margin over time
Year	Margin (D minus R)
1876	No data
1880	No data
1884	No data
1888	No data
1892	+1.9%
1896	−16.4%
1900	−10.1%
1904	−32.0%
1908	−13.3%
1912	+23.3%
1916	−8.8%
1920	−29.8%
1924	−31.6%
1928	+2.9%
1932	+6.6%
1936	+15.3%
1940	+11.2%
1944	+5.9%
1948	+2.3%
1952	−5.8%
1956	−13.8%
1960	+18.9%
1964	+42.8%
1968	+15.4%
1972	−19.4%
1976	+10.8%
1980	−4.2%
1984	−7.5%
1988	−0.4%
1992	+7.3%
1996	+16.8%
2000	+13.0%
2004	+6.5%
2008	+15.0%
2012	+13.3%
2016	−10.9%
2020	−6.2%
2024	−11.2%

DemocraticRepublican

38 presidential elections

Source · MIT Election Lab · ICPSR · VEST (precinct-level 2024).
Year	Won	Democratic	Republican	Other	Margin	Total
2024	R	43.9%Harris126,694	55.1%Trump158,927	1.0%	−11.2%	288,452
2020	R	46.4%Biden131,568	52.6%Trump149,199	1.0%incl. Jorgensen	−6.2%	283,589
2016	R	42.7%Clinton108,245	53.6%Trump135,909	3.7%incl. Johnson	−10.9%	253,567
2012	D	55.8%Obama131,206	42.5%Romney99,997	1.7%	+13.3%	235,117
2008	D	57.0%Obama145,997	42.0%McCain107,598	1.0%	+15.0%	256,189
2004	D	52.7%Kerry134,128	46.1%Bush117,501	1.2%	+6.5%	254,679
2000	D	54.5%Gore124,033	41.4%Bush94,346	4.1%incl. Nader	+13.0%	227,676
1996	D	52.7%Clinton110,600	35.9%Dole75,395	11.4%incl. Perot	+16.8%	209,906
1992	D	45.0%Clinton104,835	37.7%Bush87,871	17.3%incl. Perot	+7.3%	232,964
1988	R	49.4%Dukakis106,941	49.8%Bush107,749	0.7%	−0.4%	216,280
1984	R	45.6%Mondale106,851	53.2%Reagan124,531	1.2%	−7.5%	234,245
1980	R	45.1%Carter107,999	49.2%Reagan117,983	5.7%incl. Anderson	−4.2%	239,694
1976	D	54.8%Carter135,968	44.0%Ford109,117	1.3%	+10.8%	248,261
1972	R	39.9%McGovern98,705	59.3%Nixon146,619	0.7%	−19.4%	247,106
1968	D	55.5%Humphrey147,703	40.1%Nixon106,639	4.3%incl. Wallace	+15.4%	265,895
1964	D	71.1%Johnson198,796	28.3%Goldwater79,031	0.7%	+42.8%	279,755
1960	D	59.4%Kennedy185,822	40.4%Nixon126,535	0.2%	+18.9%	312,975
1956	R	42.9%Stevenson123,016	56.7%Eisenhower162,750	0.4%	−13.8%	287,055
1952	R	47.0%Stevenson139,320	52.7%Eisenhower156,383	0.3%	−5.8%	296,601
1948	D	50.5%Truman128,038	48.2%Dewey122,289	1.2%incl. Thurmond	+2.3%	253,487
1944	D	52.8%Roosevelt134,846	46.9%Dewey119,826	0.3%	+5.9%	255,359
1940	D	55.5%Roosevelt175,468	44.2%Willkie139,889	0.3%	+11.2%	316,423
1936	D	57.0%Roosevelt188,862	41.7%Landon138,079	1.2%	+15.3%	331,065
1932	D	52.4%Roosevelt104,496	45.8%Hoover91,272	1.8%	+6.6%	199,329
1928	D	51.4%Smith126,890	48.5%Hoover119,703	0.1%	+2.9%	246,940
1924	R	24.9%Davis38,525	56.6%Coolidge87,396	18.5%incl. La Follette	−31.6%	154,518
1920	R	33.5%Cox49,301	63.3%Harding93,220	3.2%	−29.8%	147,303
1916	R	43.6%Wilson37,170	52.5%Hughes44,704	3.9%	−8.8%	85,195
1912	O	35.2%Wilson27,389	11.9%Taft9,249	52.9%incl. Roosevelt	+23.3%	77,754
1908	R	41.8%Bryan34,459	55.0%Taft45,418	3.2%	−13.3%	82,525
1904	R	32.3%Parker25,161	64.3%Roosevelt50,040	3.4%	−32.0%	77,818
1900	R	43.2%Bryan33,073	53.3%McKinley40,803	3.4%	−10.1%	76,498
1896	R	40.3%Bryan31,125	56.7%McKinley43,828	3.0%	−16.4%	77,310
1892	D	48.7%Cleveland27,990	46.8%Harrison26,876	4.5%incl. Weaver	+1.9%	57,480
1888	—	—	—	—	No data	—
1884	—	—	—	—	No data	—
1880	—	—	—	—	No data	—
1876	—	—	—	—	No data	—

Demographics

Demographic profile

Demographic Profile

Key indicators compared across containing geographies

Demographic Profile. Key indicators compared across containing geographies. ACS values are survey estimates and may include margins of error. Religion data may be available only at county or larger geographies. Sub-county values are labeled when inherited, modeled, or contextual.
Indicator	Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PAMetro area	PennsylvaniaState	United StatesNation
Race & Ethnicity
White	78.7%	74.5%	61.0%
Black	4.1%	10.7%	12.2%
Asian	1.8%	3.8%	6.0%
Two or more races	9.0%	7.1%	12.6%
Other race	6.4%	3.9%	8.2%
Hispanic or Latino	13.8%	8.7%	19.3%
Income & Age
Median household income	$65,051	$77,971	$84,427
Poverty rate	14.8%	11.7%	12.5%
Median age	42.1	41.2	39.1
Age 18–24	8.6%	8.9%	9.2%
Age 65 and older	20.3%	19.5%	17.2%
Education & Language
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)	27.2%	35.2%	35.6%
Speaks a non-English language at home	13.2%	12.4%	22.3%
Spanish	9.7%	5.6%	13.6%
Other Indo-European	1.4%	1.7%	2.0%
Ancestry
Largest ancestry	Irish 18.2%	German 21.6%	German 12.5%
2nd-largest ancestry	Italian 16.0%	Irish 14.8%	Mexican 11.3%
3rd-largest ancestry	Polish 14.5%	Italian 10.6%	English 9.5%
Religion
Catholic	38.7%	21.9%	18.6%
Evangelical Protestant	6.0%	9.3%	16.5%
Unaffiliated or unclaimed	45.2%	53.1%	51.5%
Mainline Protestant	6.9%	10.3%	5.2%

ACS values are survey estimates and may include margins of error.

Religion data may be available only at county or larger geographies. Sub-county values are labeled when inherited, modeled, or contextual.

2024 ACS

Race, ethnicity, and ancestry

Click any group to see the origins and ancestries reported within it.

Reported ancestry · ACS B04006

Irish

18.2%

Italian

16.0%

Polish

14.5%

German

13.9%

English

6.3%

American

4.0%

Welsh

3.2%

Slovak

1.8%

Specific origin · ACS B03001

Dominican

5.3%

Puerto Rican

3.6%

Mexican

2.0%

Salvadoran

0.4%

Honduran

0.3%

Colombian

0.2%

Ecuadorian

0.2%

The ACS does not publish subgroup detail for people reporting two or more races.

American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, and other single-race responses combined.

Reported ancestry · ACS B04006

African American identity is recorded by the ACS race question; the ancestry item enumerates specific African and Caribbean ancestries only.

African

0.3%

Jamaican

0.2%

Detailed group · ACS B02015

Asian Indian

0.7%

Filipino

0.2%

Chinese

0.2%

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release. Race shares: B02001 · B03003. Subgroup detail: B03001 (Hispanic or Latino specific origin), B02015 (Asian groups), B02020 · B02016 (American Indian/Alaska Native tribes and Pacific Islander groups), B04006 (reported ancestry). Hispanic/Latino is an ethnicity that overlaps the race categories, so group shares can total more than 100%. All subgroup rows are shares of total population; ancestry is self-reported and multiple-response, so rows do not sum to the parent group's share.

2024 ACS

Age distribution by sex

Median age: 42.1 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.8%

85+

1.8%

2.6%

75–84

3.4%

5.6%

65–74

6.1%

6.9%

55–64

7.0%

6.2%

45–54

6.1%

6.2%

35–44

5.9%

6.4%

25–34

6.0%

4.4%

18–24

4.2%

7.8%

5–17

7.4%

2.7%

2.4%

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

2024 ACS

Median household income

Inflation-adjusted dollars

$65,051

Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA$65,051

Pennsylvania$77,971

United States$80,734

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

2024 ACS

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

14.8%

Children face moderate poverty.

Children under 1822.5%

Working age (18–64)12.8%

Seniors (65+)12.9%

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

2024 ACS

Language at home

Population aged 5 and older

86.8%

speak English only

Spanish9.7%

Other Indo-European1.4%

Russian, Polish, or other Slavic0.5%

Other Asian & Pacific Island0.4%

German or other West Germanic0.3%

Tagalog (incl. Filipino)0.2%

Other languages0.2%

French (incl. Cajun & Haitian)0.2%

Chinese (incl. Mandarin & Cantonese)0.2%

Korean0.1%

Arabic0.1%

Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.

2020 religion census

Religious adherents

Adherents per capita by tradition

Catholic

38.7%

Mainline Protestant

6.9%

Evangelical Protestant

6.0%

Jewish

0.7%

Muslim

0.6%

Other Christian

0.6%

Latter-day Saints

0.5%

Hindu

0.4%

Orthodox Christian

0.3%

Black Protestant

0.1%

Unaffiliated or not counted45.2%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. The unaffiliated-or-not-counted share is everyone not claimed as an adherent by any reporting body — uncounted congregations as well as the religiously unaffiliated.

Once a Democratic stronghold anchored by union households and Catholic working-class voters, the Scranton–Wilkes-Barre metro has shifted toward single-digit or sub-single-digit presidential margins over the past three cycles, making it a closely watched bellwether for blue-collar realignment.

Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 42.8 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 32.0 points in 1904. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 5.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 11.2 points.

A population of 569,788, a 79% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $65,051 describe the metro.

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Frequently asked questions

How did Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA, Pennsylvania vote in 2024?

In 2024, Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA, Pennsylvania voted Republican by 11.2 points (R+11.2), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 288,452 votes cast, 126,694 went Democratic and 158,927 went Republican.

When did Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA, Pennsylvania last vote Democratic?

The most recent presidential election in which Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA, Pennsylvania voted Democratic was 2012.

How many people live in Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA, Pennsylvania?

Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA, Pennsylvania has a population of 569,788 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.

What is the median household income in Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA, Pennsylvania?

Median household income in Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA, Pennsylvania is $65,051 — below the national median of $80,734. The Pennsylvania state median is $77,971.

What is the political history of Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA, Pennsylvania?

Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA, Pennsylvania from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 17 went Democratic and 16 went Republican.

Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA delivered R+11.2 in 2024.

Demographics

Demographic Profile

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