- Lead
- 4,871
- Total
- 56,176
- vs nation
- D+10.1
Illinois 35th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 8,988
- Total
- 60,796
- vs nation
- D+10.3
- Lead
- 8,915
- Total
- 57,006
- vs nation
- D+13.5
- Lead
- 4,267
- Total
- 54,617
- vs nation
- D+4.0
- Lead
- 7,353
- Total
- 56,612
- vs nation
- D+5.7
- Lead
- 1,641
- Total
- 58,047
- vs nation
- R+0.4
- Lead
- 1,579
- Total
- 52,494
- vs nation
- R+3.5
- Lead
- 591
- Total
- 48,507
- vs nation
- R+9.7
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+8.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 108,5682024 5-year
- Population density
- 3,491 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 31.1 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $95,6692024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 64.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 20.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 10.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+15.6 in 2016MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+74.8 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 36, IL · twin score 94.7
presidential history
Party record book
Illinois 35th 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
Joe Biden2020
56.6%
34,408 votes · D+14.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 56.0%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
85.2%
31,688 votes · R+74.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James A. Garfield, 1880 · 78.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
34,408votes
56.6% of the vote · D+14.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 31,722 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
64,410votes
77.2% of the vote · R+54.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 61,312 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
+13.5pts D vs U.S.
Place D+15.6 · U.S. D+2.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +10.3 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+50.6pts R vs U.S.
Place R+56.6 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Charles E. Hughes, 1916 · +50.4 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%30,452 | 26.9%11,187 | 41,639 |
Illinois 35th State House District sits in the Upper Midwest. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 15.6 points in 2016 and a Republican high of 74.8 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 6.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 8.7 points.
A population of 108,568, a 64% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $95,669 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 80.
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 35th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/17035/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.