- Lead
- 5,180
- Total
- 20,172
- vs nation
- D+27.2
Indiana 1st State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 8,557
- Total
- 22,658
- vs nation
- D+33.3
- Lead
- 9,133
- Total
- 22,311
- vs nation
- D+38.8
- Lead
- 11,604
- Total
- 22,583
- vs nation
- D+47.5
- Lead
- 12,654
- Total
- 23,598
- vs nation
- D+46.4
- Lead
- 9,036
- Total
- 20,888
- vs nation
- D+45.7
- Lead
- 9,080
- Total
- 19,246
- vs nation
- D+46.7
- Lead
- 9,070
- Total
- 18,998
- vs nation
- D+39.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+25.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 67,7952024 5-year
- Population density
- 3,307 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 20.5 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $55,0322024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 30.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 24.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 42.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+62.8 in 1884MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+27.9 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Assembly District 6, NV · twin score 94.6
presidential history
Party record book
Indiana 1st 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
Grover Cleveland1884
81.4%
206 votes · D+62.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Grover Cleveland, 1892 · 79.8%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
54.8%
560 votes · R+14.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 52.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
18,014votes
76.3% of the vote · D+53.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 17,495 votes
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
9,105votes
43.8% of the vote · D+11.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1980 · 7,605 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
Grover Cleveland1892
+58.5pts D vs U.S.
Place D+60.1 · U.S. D+1.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Walter Mondale, 1984 · +51.2 pts
Republican
William H. Taft1912
+4.4pts R vs U.S.
Place D+15.2 · U.S. D+19.5 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · +1.7 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Indiana 1st State House District sits in the Upper Midwest. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 62.8 points in 1884 and a Republican high of 27.9 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 12.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 25.7 points.
A population of 67,795, a 30% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $55,032 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Assembly District 6 and State House District 1.
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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