- Lead
- 14,187
- Total
- 57,095
- vs nation
- R+23.4
Illinois 73rd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 13,640
- Total
- 59,442
- vs nation
- R+27.4
- Lead
- 13,716
- Total
- 55,234
- vs nation
- R+26.9
- Lead
- 7,120
- Total
- 53,742
- vs nation
- R+17.1
- Lead
- 3,763
- Total
- 55,519
- vs nation
- R+14.1
- Lead
- 11,573
- Total
- 57,422
- vs nation
- R+17.7
- Lead
- 8,237
- Total
- 52,438
- vs nation
- R+16.2
- Lead
- 3,260
- Total
- 49,772
- vs nation
- R+15.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+24.8MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 108,5532024 5-year
- Population density
- 53 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 2,032 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $83,5772024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 87.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.4%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 3.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+7.0 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+62.8 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 67, OH · twin score 91.8
presidential history
Party record book
Illinois 73rd 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
45.7%
25,350 votes · R+6.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 45.2%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
78.0%
26,632 votes · R+62.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 74.0%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
25,350votes
45.7% of the vote · R+6.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 24,231 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
42,561votes
74.0% of the vote · R+47.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 42,486 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
Woodrow Wilson1912
−12.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+7.0 · U.S. D+19.5 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Bill Clinton, 1992 · −12.6 pts
Republican
Thomas E. Dewey1944
+41.5pts R vs U.S.
Place R+34.0 · U.S. D+7.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Thomas E. Dewey, 1948 · +39.0 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 | R | 30.7%14,453 | 69.3%32,586 | 47,039 |
| 2020 | R | 41.3%22,290 | 58.7%31,738 | 54,028 |
Illinois House District 73 leans heavily Republican at the presidential level, posting a 24-point margin in 2024 — a gap that reflects broader rural downstate patterns where population density is low and partisan sorting is pronounced.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 7.0 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 62.8 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 24.8 points.
A population of 108,553, a 88% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $83,577 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 67 and Assembly District 148.
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 73rd State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/17073/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.