- Lead
- 6,472
- Total
- 40,213
- vs nation
- D+17.6
Illinois 96th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 8,138
- Total
- 45,444
- vs nation
- D+13.5
- Lead
- 6,840
- Total
- 44,697
- vs nation
- D+13.2
- Lead
- 10,605
- Total
- 45,383
- vs nation
- D+19.5
- Lead
- 15,932
- Total
- 49,353
- vs nation
- D+25.0
- Lead
- 7,968
- Total
- 45,614
- vs nation
- D+19.9
- Lead
- 10,866
- Total
- 44,479
- vs nation
- D+23.9
- Lead
- 14,291
- Total
- 44,309
- vs nation
- D+23.7
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+16.1MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 108,4262024 5-year
- Population density
- 491 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 221 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $47,3952024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 58.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 30.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 3.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+50.6 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+5.9 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 70, MI · twin score 90.5
presidential history
Party record book
Illinois 96th 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
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
75.3%
35,302 votes · D+50.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 71.0%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
51.2%
13,925 votes · R+3.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 47.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
35,302votes
75.3% of the vote · D+50.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 32,120 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
19,218votes
41.8% of the vote · D+16.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · 18,631 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
Walter Mondale1984
+34.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+16.0 · U.S. R+18.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Michael Dukakis, 1988 · +33.7 pts
Republican
William H. Taft1912
−12.7pts R vs U.S.
Place D+32.2 · U.S. D+19.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · −13.2 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 | 32.6%15,029 | 67.4%31,054 | 46,083 |
Illinois 96th State House District sits in the Upper Midwest. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 50.6 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 5.9 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 16.1 points.
A population of 108,426, a 58% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $47,395 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 70 and State House District 38.
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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