- Lead
- 3,707
- Total
- 59,694
- vs nation
- R+4.7
Illinois 82nd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 1,343
- Total
- 62,683
- vs nation
- R+6.6
- Lead
- 2,449
- Total
- 54,840
- vs nation
- R+6.6
- Lead
- 8,133
- Total
- 52,827
- vs nation
- R+19.3
- Lead
- 4,522
- Total
- 54,058
- vs nation
- R+15.6
- Lead
- 14,457
- Total
- 55,633
- vs nation
- R+23.5
- Lead
- 13,707
- Total
- 50,065
- vs nation
- R+27.9
- Lead
- 10,873
- Total
- 45,191
- vs nation
- R+32.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+6.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 108,6612024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,717 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 63.3 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $117,1812024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 77.7%2024 5-year
- Black
- 3.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 8.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Republican margin
- R+82.5 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 52, IL · twin score 94.0
presidential history
Party record book
Illinois 82nd 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
47.9%
30,055 votes · R+2.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 45.4%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
89.3%
20,797 votes · R+82.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 84.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
30,055votes
47.9% of the vote · R+2.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 27,101 votes
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
50,686votes
81.9% of the vote · R+64.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 49,185 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
−4.7pts D vs U.S.
Place R+6.2 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · −6.6 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1932
+66.7pts R vs U.S.
Place R+48.9 · U.S. D+17.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Charles E. Hughes, 1916 · +65.9 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 | 63.8%29,924 | 36.2%16,943 | 46,867 |
Illinois 82nd State House District sits in the Upper Midwest. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Republican high of 82.5 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 6.2 points.
A population of 108,661, a 78% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $117,181 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 52 and State House District 65.
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 82nd State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/17082/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.