- Lead
- 4,596
- Total
- 8,638
- vs nation
- D+54.7
Arkansas 80th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 5,484
- Total
- 10,348
- vs nation
- D+48.5
- Lead
- 5,479
- Total
- 10,141
- vs nation
- D+51.9
- Lead
- 5,040
- Total
- 10,226
- vs nation
- D+45.4
- Lead
- 5,132
- Total
- 10,358
- vs nation
- D+42.3
- Lead
- 4,838
- Total
- 9,868
- vs nation
- D+51.5
- Lead
- 3,788
- Total
- 8,076
- vs nation
- D+46.4
- Lead
- 4,804
- Total
- 8,518
- vs nation
- D+47.9
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+53.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 30,0912024 5-year
- Population density
- 225 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 134 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $46,5182024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 30.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 51.9%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 13.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+92.4 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 76, AR · twin score 98.6
presidential history
Party record book
Arkansas 80th State House 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
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
96.2%
992 votes · D+92.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 94.4%
Republican
James A. Garfield1880
42.7%
108 votes · D+14.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 42.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
7,791votes
75.3% of the vote · D+53.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 7,755 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
2,856votes
37.7% of the vote · D+24.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George H. W. Bush, 1988 · 2,602 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
John W. Davis1924
+91.8pts D vs U.S.
Place D+66.6 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James M. Cox, 1920 · +87.8 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
−18.3pts R vs U.S.
Place D+40.8 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1968 · −33.3 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
With a 2024 presidential margin of D+53.2 in a state Donald Trump carried by roughly 30 points, District 80 stands as a pronounced outlier—likely anchored by a majority-minority urban core that reliably produces some of the widest Democratic margins in the state.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 92.4 points in 1936. The 2024 margin was 53.2 points.
A population of 30,091, a 30% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $46,518 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 76 and State House District 69.
The state-house 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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Arkansas 80th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/05080/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.