- Lead
- 3,319
- Total
- 35,412
- vs nation
- D+10.8
Illinois 22nd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 12,234
- Total
- 39,684
- vs nation
- D+26.4
- Lead
- 14,523
- Total
- 37,311
- vs nation
- D+36.8
- Lead
- 11,602
- Total
- 34,857
- vs nation
- D+29.4
- Lead
- 13,824
- Total
- 36,598
- vs nation
- D+30.5
- Lead
- 8,415
- Total
- 36,368
- vs nation
- D+25.6
- Lead
- 7,428
- Total
- 32,555
- vs nation
- D+22.3
- Lead
- 7,265
- Total
- 30,266
- vs nation
- D+15.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+9.4MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 108,5182024 5-year
- Population density
- 7,001 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 15.5 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $78,0022024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 28.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 2.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 67.1%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+38.9 in 2016MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+61.4 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 77, IL · twin score 98.5
presidential history
Party record book
Illinois 22nd 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
68.6%
25,100 votes · D+37.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 67.1%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
77.4%
14,813 votes · R+61.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 70.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
25,676votes
64.7% of the vote · D+30.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 25,100 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
30,114votes
66.4% of the vote · R+32.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 28,548 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
+36.8pts D vs U.S.
Place D+38.9 · U.S. D+2.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · +30.5 pts
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
+35.2pts R vs U.S.
Place R+61.4 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Charles E. Hughes, 1916 · +29.7 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
The 2024 presidential margin was D+9.5, one of the narrower results among Illinois's state house districts, compared with D+37.8 in 2008. No racial group formed a majority of its residents in the 2024 ACS 5-year, with White residents at 43.6%.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 38.9 points in 2016 and a Republican high of 61.4 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 21.5 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 9.4 points.
A population of 108,518, a 28% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $78,002 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 77 and State House District 1.
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 22nd State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/17022/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.