- Lead
- 112,454
- Total
- 271,791
- vs nation
- D+42.8
Indiana 7th Congressional District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Vote totals, margins, and source status
- Lead
- 128,687
- Total
- 303,725
- vs nation
- D+37.9
- Lead
- 102,992
- Total
- 289,070
- vs nation
- D+33.5
- Lead
- 102,480
- Total
- 283,577
- vs nation
- D+32.3
- Lead
- 126,406
- Total
- 302,108
- vs nation
- D+34.6
- Lead
- 42,218
- Total
- 245,231
- vs nation
- D+19.7
- Lead
- 29,367
- Total
- 210,756
- vs nation
- D+13.4
- Lead
- 23,665
- Total
- 213,998
- vs nation
- D+2.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+41.4MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 753,9142024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,732 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 276 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $64,1472024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 45.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 32.9%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 14.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+42.4 in 2020MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+19.2 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Congressional District 5, GA · twin score 93.8
presidential history
Party record book
Indiana 7th 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
70.4%
212,779 votes · D+41.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 70.3%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
59.3%
132,914 votes · R+19.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 54.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
213,494votes
70.3% of the vote · D+42.4
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 212,779 votes
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
132,914votes
59.3% of the vote · R+19.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 119,106 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
+42.8pts D vs U.S.
Place D+41.4 · U.S. R+1.5
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +37.9 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+4.1pts R vs U.S.
Place D+18.5 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1968 · +0.6 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.
Indiana 7th Congressional District sits in the Upper Midwest. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 42.4 points in 2020 and a Republican high of 19.2 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 41.4 points.
A population of 753,914, a 45% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $64,147 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Congressional District 5 and Congressional District 3.
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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Indiana 7th Congressional District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/cd/1807/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.