- Lead
- 26,789
- Total
- 41,146
- vs nation
- D+66.6
Illinois 33rd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 34,684
- Total
- 47,320
- vs nation
- D+68.8
- Lead
- 35,802
- Total
- 48,570
- vs nation
- D+71.6
- Lead
- 32,209
- Total
- 44,523
- vs nation
- D+68.5
- Lead
- 35,926
- Total
- 47,952
- vs nation
- D+67.6
- Lead
- 29,665
- Total
- 44,375
- vs nation
- D+69.3
- Lead
- 26,363
- Total
- 39,722
- vs nation
- D+65.8
- Lead
- 23,960
- Total
- 36,800
- vs nation
- D+56.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+65.1MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 108,6242024 5-year
- Population density
- 5,148 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 21.1 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $58,2772024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 12.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 61.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 23.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+74.9 in 2008MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+20.0 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 30, IL · twin score 99.2
presidential history
Party record book
Illinois 33rd 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
87.4%
41,895 votes · D+74.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 86.0%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
57.2%
7,747 votes · R+20.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 49.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
41,895votes
87.4% of the vote · D+74.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 41,456 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
16,276votes
39.3% of the vote · D+21.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 15,476 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
+71.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+73.7 · U.S. D+2.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John Kerry, 2004 · +69.3 pts
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
−6.2pts R vs U.S.
Place R+20.0 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · −10.3 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%30,467 | 26.9%11,193 | 41,660 |
Illinois 33rd State House District sits in the Upper Midwest. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 74.9 points in 2008 and a Republican high of 20.0 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 8.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 65.1 points.
A population of 108,624, a 12% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $58,277 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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Illinois 33rd State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/17033/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.