- Lead
- 4,338
- Total
- 48,276
- vs nation
- R+7.5
Illinois 20th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 606
- Total
- 51,035
- vs nation
- R+5.6
- Lead
- 2,894
- Total
- 44,890
- vs nation
- D+4.4
- Lead
- 1,007
- Total
- 43,221
- vs nation
- R+6.2
- Lead
- 1,159
- Total
- 44,712
- vs nation
- R+4.7
- Lead
- 5,980
- Total
- 46,476
- vs nation
- R+10.4
- Lead
- 5,396
- Total
- 42,788
- vs nation
- R+13.1
- Lead
- 3,887
- Total
- 38,722
- vs nation
- R+18.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+9.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 108,6202024 5-year
- Population density
- 6,102 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 17.8 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $91,3102024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 70.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 21.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+6.4 in 2016MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+77.7 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 36, IL · twin score 85.7
presidential history
Party record book
Illinois 20th 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
50.8%
22,701 votes · D+2.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 50.4%
Republican
James A. Garfield1880
87.6%
2,567 votes · R+75.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Rutherford B. Hayes, 1876 · 86.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
24,765votes
48.5% of the vote · R+1.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 22,701 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
56,371votes
80.5% of the vote · R+60.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 53,760 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
+4.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+6.4 · U.S. D+2.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · −4.7 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1932
+56.4pts R vs U.S.
Place R+38.6 · U.S. D+17.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Charles E. Hughes, 1916 · +56.4 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%30,466 | 26.9%11,193 | 41,659 |
Illinois House District 20 backed the 2024 Republican presidential ticket by roughly 9 points, reflecting broader rural and small-city realignment patterns common across downstate precincts over the past decade.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 6.4 points in 2016 and a Republican high of 77.7 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 7.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 9.0 points.
A population of 108,620, a 70% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $91,310 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 36 and State House District 15.
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 20th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/17020/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.