- Lead
- 17,664
- Total
- 28,871
- vs nation
- D+62.7
Illinois 6th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 26,037
- Total
- 35,054
- vs nation
- D+69.8
- Lead
- 30,745
- Total
- 37,702
- vs nation
- D+79.5
- Lead
- 27,951
- Total
- 34,318
- vs nation
- D+77.6
- Lead
- 30,854
- Total
- 37,058
- vs nation
- D+76.0
- Lead
- 26,434
- Total
- 33,721
- vs nation
- D+80.8
- Lead
- 23,410
- Total
- 30,241
- vs nation
- D+76.9
- Lead
- 21,121
- Total
- 28,145
- vs nation
- D+66.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+61.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 108,6892024 5-year
- Population density
- 12,077 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 9 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $57,4762024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 16.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 45.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 30.0%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+83.3 in 2008MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 32, IL · twin score 97.9
presidential history
Party record book
Illinois 6th 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
91.4%
33,875 votes · D+83.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 90.4%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
43.7%
3,811 votes · D+3.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 37.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
33,875votes
91.4% of the vote · D+83.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 33,579 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
8,174votes
28.6% of the vote · D+42.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 7,831 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
+80.8pts D vs U.S.
Place D+78.4 · U.S. R+2.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · +79.5 pts
Republican
William H. Taft1912
−21.7pts R vs U.S.
Place D+41.2 · U.S. D+19.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · −29.7 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
With a 2024 presidential margin of D+61.2, this Chicago-area district ranks among the most lopsided in the state, reflecting a dense, heavily Democratic electorate that has shown little competitive variance in recent cycles.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 83.3 points in 2008. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 13.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 61.2 points.
A population of 108,689, a 16% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $57,476 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 32 and State House District 25.
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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Illinois 6th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/17006/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.