- Lead
- 20,750
- Total
- 56,211
- vs nation
- D+38.4
Illinois 17th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 25,319
- Total
- 61,429
- vs nation
- D+36.8
- Lead
- 22,586
- Total
- 54,297
- vs nation
- D+39.5
- Lead
- 18,432
- Total
- 50,354
- vs nation
- D+32.7
- Lead
- 21,904
- Total
- 52,942
- vs nation
- D+34.1
- Lead
- 14,058
- Total
- 51,977
- vs nation
- D+29.5
- Lead
- 12,447
- Total
- 47,018
- vs nation
- D+26.0
- Lead
- 11,844
- Total
- 44,004
- vs nation
- D+18.4
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+36.9MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 108,4322024 5-year
- Population density
- 4,444 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 24.4 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $128,0022024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 64.6%2024 5-year
- Black
- 3.8%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 7.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+41.6 in 2016MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+59.1 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 57, IL · twin score 96.7
presidential history
Party record book
Illinois 17th 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
70.1%
37,113 votes · D+41.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 69.9%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
76.5%
19,908 votes · R+59.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 66.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
42,909votes
69.9% of the vote · D+41.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 37,914 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
40,604votes
64.6% of the vote · R+29.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 38,508 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
+39.5pts D vs U.S.
Place D+41.6 · U.S. D+2.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · +38.4 pts
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
+32.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+59.1 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · +25.7 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%30,414 | 26.9%11,173 | 41,587 |
Illinois 17th State House District sits in the Upper Midwest. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 41.6 points in 2016 and a Republican high of 59.1 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 36.9 points.
A population of 108,432, a 65% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $128,002 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 57 and State House District 59.
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 17th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/17017/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.