- Lead
- 7,138
- Total
- 47,874
- vs nation
- D+16.4
Illinois 53rd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 9,931
- Total
- 50,106
- vs nation
- D+15.4
- Lead
- 8,247
- Total
- 43,914
- vs nation
- D+16.7
- Lead
- 4,766
- Total
- 41,525
- vs nation
- D+7.6
- Lead
- 7,075
- Total
- 43,046
- vs nation
- D+9.2
- Lead
- 423
- Total
- 43,870
- vs nation
- D+3.4
- Lead
- 241
- Total
- 39,857
- vs nation
- D+0.1
- Lead
- 838
- Total
- 37,224
- vs nation
- R+6.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+14.9MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 108,5632024 5-year
- Population density
- 5,296 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 20.5 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $101,6162024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 63.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 2.9%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 16.3%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+19.8 in 2020MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+72.1 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 57, IL · twin score 97.0
presidential history
Party record book
Illinois 53rd 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
58.9%
29,522 votes · D+19.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 57.4%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
83.1%
22,908 votes · R+72.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 75.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
29,522votes
58.9% of the vote · D+19.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 26,925 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
46,499votes
75.8% of the vote · R+51.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 44,235 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
+16.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+18.8 · U.S. D+2.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · +16.4 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+47.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+53.3 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Charles E. Hughes, 1916 · +46.3 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%30,450 | 26.9%11,187 | 41,637 |
Illinois 53rd State House District sits in the Upper Midwest. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 19.8 points in 2020 and a Republican high of 72.1 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 14.9 points.
A population of 108,563, a 63% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $101,616 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 57 and State House District 54.
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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