- Lead
- 28,653
- Total
- 39,248
- vs nation
- D+74.5
Illinois 5th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 35,183
- Total
- 45,007
- vs nation
- D+73.7
- Lead
- 34,279
- Total
- 42,493
- vs nation
- D+78.6
- Lead
- 31,140
- Total
- 38,580
- vs nation
- D+76.9
- Lead
- 34,560
- Total
- 41,731
- vs nation
- D+75.5
- Lead
- 29,312
- Total
- 37,825
- vs nation
- D+80.0
- Lead
- 26,050
- Total
- 34,296
- vs nation
- D+75.4
- Lead
- 23,551
- Total
- 31,829
- vs nation
- D+65.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+73.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 108,6652024 5-year
- Population density
- 15,980 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 6.8 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $81,0082024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 26.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 54.8%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 5.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+82.8 in 2008MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 26, IL · twin score 99.3
presidential history
Party record book
Illinois 5th 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
Barack Obama2008
91.0%
37,987 votes · D+82.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 89.8%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
44.1%
4,408 votes · D+1.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 36.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
39,698votes
88.2% of the vote · D+78.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 37,987 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
9,213votes
28.8% of the vote · D+42.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 8,774 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 Kerry2004
+80.0pts D vs U.S.
Place D+77.5 · U.S. R+2.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · +78.6 pts
Republican
William H. Taft1912
−16.9pts R vs U.S.
Place D+36.5 · U.S. D+19.5 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · −28.1 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
U.S. House
Each row is a county-allocated estimate of U.S. House votes for this district — county returns apportioned onto its boundary, not precinct-counted. “Vote lead” is the estimated local lead here, not necessarily the winner of the full contest.
| Year | Vote lead | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | D | 73.1%30,479 | 26.9%11,197 | 41,676 |
Illinois 5th State House District sits in the Upper Midwest. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 82.8 points in 2008. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 5.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 73.0 points.
A population of 108,665, a 26% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $81,008 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 26 and State House District 10.
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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