- Lead
- 126,851
- Total
- 349,360
- vs nation
- D+37.8
Illinois 9th Congressional District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 157,262
- Total
- 381,047
- vs nation
- D+36.8
- Lead
- 145,176
- Total
- 343,076
- vs nation
- D+40.2
- Lead
- 120,760
- Total
- 317,914
- vs nation
- D+34.1
- Lead
- 147,977
- Total
- 335,628
- vs nation
- D+36.8
- Lead
- 94,602
- Total
- 319,853
- vs nation
- D+32.0
- Lead
- 84,154
- Total
- 286,356
- vs nation
- D+28.9
- Lead
- 81,670
- Total
- 260,983
- vs nation
- D+22.8
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+36.3MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 751,7372024 5-year
- Population density
- 4,483 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 168 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $92,5132024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 59.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 8.6%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 13.0%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+44.1 in 2008MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+50.9 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Congressional District 5, IL · twin score 91.5
presidential history
Party record book
Illinois 9th Congressional 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
Barack Obama2008
71.4%
239,749 votes · D+44.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 69.7%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
72.1%
87,116 votes · R+50.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 61.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
265,573votes
69.7% of the vote · D+41.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 239,749 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
182,028votes
58.8% of the vote · R+17.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 178,671 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
Hillary Clinton2016
+40.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+42.3 · U.S. D+2.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · +37.8 pts
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
+24.7pts R vs U.S.
Place R+50.9 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · +17.5 pts
Current officeholders
Federal officeholders only. State and local officeholders are planned for the next data pass.
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
U.S. House
Each result reflects the U.S. House district as it was drawn for that election; redistricting has redrawn these lines over time, so they can differ from the current 120th-Congress district shown on the map above.
Illinois's 9th stretches along Lake Michigan from Chicago's Far North Side through Evanston and into the northern suburbs, combining dense urban precincts with high-education lakefront communities to produce presidential margins exceeding 35 points in recent cycles.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 44.1 points in 2008 and a Republican high of 50.9 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 5.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 36.3 points.
A population of 751,737, a 59% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $92,513 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Congressional District 5 and Congressional District 10.
The congressional 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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Illinois 9th Congressional District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/cd/1709/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.