- Lead
- 5,942
- Total
- 462,960
- vs nation
- D+0.2
Michigan 7th Congressional District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 4,236
- Total
- 447,598
- vs nation
- R+3.5
- Lead
- 14,608
- Total
- 389,841
- vs nation
- R+5.8
- Lead
- 8,753
- Total
- 373,744
- vs nation
- R+1.5
- Lead
- 39,432
- Total
- 396,115
- vs nation
- D+2.7
- Lead
- 21,808
- Total
- 376,234
- vs nation
- R+3.3
- Lead
- 5,421
- Total
- 326,798
- vs nation
- R+2.2
- Lead
- 9,722
- Total
- 295,748
- vs nation
- R+5.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+1.3MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 775,2382024 5-year
- Population density
- 280 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 2,766 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $80,3572024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 79.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 6.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 5.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+21.0 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+60.3 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Congressional District 4, MI · twin score 83.4
presidential history
Party record book
Michigan 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
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
60.4%
102,457 votes · D+21.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 54.1%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
78.2%
61,093 votes · R+56.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 76.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
224,742votes
48.5% of the vote · R+1.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 221,984 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
230,684votes
49.8% of the vote · R+1.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 217,748 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
Barack Obama2008
+2.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+10.0 · U.S. D+7.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George McGovern, 1972 · +0.8 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+40.5pts R vs U.S.
Place R+46.6 · U.S. R+6.1 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · +39.3 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.
Michigan 7th Congressional District sits in the Great Lakes. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 21.0 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 60.3 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 1.3 points.
A population of 775,238, a 80% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $80,357 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Congressional District 4 and Congressional District 19.
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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Michigan 7th Congressional District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/cd/2607/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.