- Lead
- 25,628
- Total
- 48,331
- vs nation
- D+54.5
Illinois 7th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 32,150
- Total
- 53,467
- vs nation
- D+55.7
- Lead
- 31,040
- Total
- 51,080
- vs nation
- D+58.7
- Lead
- 26,870
- Total
- 47,011
- vs nation
- D+53.3
- Lead
- 30,735
- Total
- 50,033
- vs nation
- D+54.2
- Lead
- 23,769
- Total
- 47,087
- vs nation
- D+52.9
- Lead
- 20,862
- Total
- 42,408
- vs nation
- D+48.7
- Lead
- 19,224
- Total
- 39,280
- vs nation
- D+40.4
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+53.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 108,5922024 5-year
- Population density
- 4,113 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 26.4 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $83,3202024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 27.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 41.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 25.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+61.4 in 2008MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+30.8 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 30, IL · twin score 98.6
presidential history
Party record book
Illinois 7th 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
80.5%
40,269 votes · D+61.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 79.4%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
63.5%
8,892 votes · R+30.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 53.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
42,442votes
79.4% of the vote · D+60.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 40,269 votes
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
19,972votes
44.1% of the vote · D+11.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 19,645 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
Hillary Clinton2016
+58.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+60.8 · U.S. D+2.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +55.7 pts
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
+4.6pts R vs U.S.
Place R+30.8 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · −0.8 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 | 71.3%30,382 | 28.7%12,244 | 42,626 |
Illinois House District 7 leans reliably toward Republican candidates at the presidential level, running roughly 14 points to the right of the national median — a gap that reflects the rural and small-city character typical of downstate Illinois constituencies.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 61.4 points in 2008 and a Republican high of 30.8 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 7.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 53.0 points.
A population of 108,592, a 27% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $83,320 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 30 and State House District 8.
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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