- Lead
- 10,661
- Total
- 27,801
- vs nation
- D+39.8
Illinois 24th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 19,618
- Total
- 33,062
- vs nation
- D+54.9
- Lead
- 19,590
- Total
- 30,315
- vs nation
- D+62.5
- Lead
- 17,384
- Total
- 27,496
- vs nation
- D+59.4
- Lead
- 19,607
- Total
- 29,362
- vs nation
- D+59.5
- Lead
- 15,635
- Total
- 27,432
- vs nation
- D+59.5
- Lead
- 13,893
- Total
- 24,939
- vs nation
- D+55.2
- Lead
- 12,739
- Total
- 23,511
- vs nation
- D+45.7
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+38.3MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 108,6082024 5-year
- Population density
- 13,924 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 7.8 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $70,6582024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 16.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 3.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 51.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+66.8 in 2008MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+31.3 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Assembly District 51, NY · twin score 93.9
presidential history
Party record book
Illinois 24th 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
82.7%
24,282 votes · D+66.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 80.6%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
60.3%
6,126 votes · R+31.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 50.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
25,927votes
78.4% of the vote · D+59.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 24,282 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
12,597votes
46.4% of the vote · D+7.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 11,959 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
+62.5pts D vs U.S.
Place D+64.6 · U.S. D+2.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · +59.5 pts
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
+5.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+31.3 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William H. Taft, 1912 · +0.7 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
With a 2024 presidential margin of D+38.3, this 108,000-resident district ranks among the most reliably left-leaning constituencies in the state, leaving general-election competition rare and primary races as the primary locus of political contest.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 66.8 points in 2008 and a Republican high of 31.3 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 21.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 38.3 points.
A population of 108,608, a 17% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $70,658 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Assembly District 51 and State House District 44.
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 24th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/17024/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.