- Lead
- 3,005
- Total
- 31,208
- vs nation
- R+8.2
Indiana 5th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 2,286
- Total
- 31,349
- vs nation
- R+11.7
- Lead
- 4,661
- Total
- 29,669
- vs nation
- R+17.8
- Lead
- 3,984
- Total
- 29,241
- vs nation
- R+17.5
- Lead
- 92
- Total
- 30,615
- vs nation
- R+7.0
- Lead
- 5,603
- Total
- 29,033
- vs nation
- R+16.8
- Lead
- 4,200
- Total
- 25,640
- vs nation
- R+16.9
- Lead
- 1,743
- Total
- 24,348
- vs nation
- R+15.7
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+9.6MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 67,3172024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,533 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 43.9 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $75,0452024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 79.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 5.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 4.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+9.2 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+44.8 in 1904MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 7, IN · twin score 77.9
presidential history
Party record book
Indiana 5th 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
53.6%
14,418 votes · D+8.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 53.5%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
70.2%
3,525 votes · R+44.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 68.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
15,143votes
49.5% of the vote · D+0.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 14,418 votes
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
20,177votes
68.4% of the vote · R+37.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 18,054 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
Adlai Stevenson1956
−4.9pts D vs U.S.
Place R+20.3 · U.S. R+15.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Walter Mondale, 1984 · −5.0 pts
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
+25.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+44.8 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1932 · +20.2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | D | 51.4%14,517 | 48.6%13,734 | 28,251 |
Indiana 5th State House District sits in the Upper Midwest. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 9.2 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 44.8 points in 1904. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 9.6 points.
A population of 67,317, a 80% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $75,045 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 7 and State House District 75.
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.
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