- Lead
- 3,911
- Total
- 48,545
- vs nation
- D+9.5
Illinois 36th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 8,552
- Total
- 52,787
- vs nation
- D+11.7
- Lead
- 7,867
- Total
- 48,587
- vs nation
- D+14.1
- Lead
- 3,919
- Total
- 46,362
- vs nation
- D+4.6
- Lead
- 6,534
- Total
- 47,867
- vs nation
- D+6.4
- Lead
- 1,052
- Total
- 49,147
- vs nation
- D+0.3
- Lead
- 1,109
- Total
- 44,597
- vs nation
- R+3.0
- Lead
- 166
- Total
- 41,270
- vs nation
- R+8.9
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+8.1MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 108,7502024 5-year
- Population density
- 3,356 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 32.4 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $85,6602024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 65.7%2024 5-year
- Black
- 12.9%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 16.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+16.2 in 2020MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+74.9 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 35, IL · twin score 94.7
presidential history
Party record book
Illinois 36th 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
57.2%
30,219 votes · D+16.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 56.4%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
85.5%
26,663 votes · R+74.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James A. Garfield, 1880 · 78.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
30,219votes
57.2% of the vote · D+16.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 27,017 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
54,136votes
77.0% of the vote · R+53.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 51,502 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
+14.1pts D vs U.S.
Place D+16.2 · U.S. D+2.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +11.7 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+49.8pts R vs U.S.
Place R+55.9 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Charles E. Hughes, 1916 · +49.7 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%30,503 | 26.9%11,206 | 41,709 |
Its 2024 presidential margin of D+8.2 ranked among Illinois's closest, against D+13.7 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 16.2 points in 2020 and a Republican high of 74.9 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 8.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 8.1 points.
A population of 108,750, a 66% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $85,660 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 35 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 36th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/17036/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.