- Lead
- 10,980
- Total
- 18,996
- vs nation
- D+59.3
Indiana 2nd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 15,284
- Total
- 22,524
- vs nation
- D+63.4
- Lead
- 18,348
- Total
- 24,961
- vs nation
- D+71.4
- Lead
- 21,171
- Total
- 26,775
- vs nation
- D+75.2
- Lead
- 22,653
- Total
- 28,115
- vs nation
- D+73.3
- Lead
- 18,053
- Total
- 23,830
- vs nation
- D+78.2
- Lead
- 17,367
- Total
- 22,449
- vs nation
- D+76.8
- Lead
- 16,302
- Total
- 21,563
- vs nation
- D+67.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+57.8MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 67,9322024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,724 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 39.4 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $45,2962024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 14.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 51.8%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 31.3%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+81.0 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 1, MI · twin score 97.5
presidential history
Party record book
Indiana 2nd 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
90.2%
357 votes · D+80.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Samuel J. Tilden, 1876 · 90.1%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
33.1%
942 votes · D+13.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 28.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
25,303votes
90.0% of the vote · D+80.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 24,521 votes
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
4,424votes
21.4% of the vote · D+56.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 3,865 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
+89.0pts D vs U.S.
Place D+70.8 · U.S. R+18.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Adlai Stevenson, 1952 · +81.0 pts
Republican
William H. Taft1912
−24.7pts R vs U.S.
Place D+44.3 · U.S. D+19.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · −39.4 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
With a 2024 presidential margin of D+57.8, this district stands as an outlier in a state that trends heavily Republican statewide, suggesting a dense urban core with a highly concentrated Democratic electorate.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 81.0 points in 1936. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 10.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 57.8 points.
A population of 67,932, a 14% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $45,296 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 1 and State House District 14.
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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Indiana 2nd State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/18002/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.