- Lead
- 9,994
- Total
- 50,584
- vs nation
- D+21.2
Illinois 54th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 12,246
- Total
- 54,466
- vs nation
- D+18.0
- Lead
- 9,071
- Total
- 48,778
- vs nation
- D+16.5
- Lead
- 5,221
- Total
- 45,951
- vs nation
- D+7.5
- Lead
- 7,888
- Total
- 47,749
- vs nation
- D+9.2
- Lead
- 448
- Total
- 48,488
- vs nation
- D+3.4
- Lead
- 226
- Total
- 44,152
- vs nation
- Even
- Lead
- 885
- Total
- 41,418
- vs nation
- R+6.4
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+19.8MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 108,5892024 5-year
- Population density
- 5,027 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 21.6 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $103,1662024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 68.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 2.4%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 16.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+22.5 in 2020MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+71.9 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 53, IL · twin score 96.9
presidential history
Party record book
Illinois 54th 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
60.2%
32,795 votes · D+22.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 58.6%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
82.6%
25,304 votes · R+71.9 · 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
32,795votes
60.2% of the vote · D+22.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 29,664 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
51,423votes
75.8% of the vote · R+51.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 48,945 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
Kamala Harris2024
+21.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+19.8 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +18.0 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+46.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+52.9 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Charles E. Hughes, 1916 · +46.5 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%30,458 | 26.9%11,189 | 41,647 |
Its Democratic presidential margin was D+19.8 in 2024 and D+16.5 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 22.5 points in 2020 and a Republican high of 71.9 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 19.8 points.
A population of 108,589, a 68% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $103,166 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 53 and State House District 57.
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 54th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/17054/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.