- Lead
- 6,516
- Total
- 21,420
- vs nation
- D+31.9
Indiana 6th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 8,475
- Total
- 23,055
- vs nation
- D+32.3
- Lead
- 7,362
- Total
- 23,352
- vs nation
- D+29.4
- Lead
- 8,562
- Total
- 23,364
- vs nation
- D+32.8
- Lead
- 12,308
- Total
- 26,178
- vs nation
- D+39.7
- Lead
- 7,126
- Total
- 22,086
- vs nation
- D+34.7
- Lead
- 6,553
- Total
- 20,171
- vs nation
- D+32.0
- Lead
- 7,357
- Total
- 20,030
- vs nation
- D+28.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+30.4MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 68,0932024 5-year
- Population density
- 3,804 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 17.9 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $52,6722024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 49.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 26.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 16.1%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+53.1 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 7, MI · twin score 91.0
presidential history
Party record book
Indiana 6th 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
76.4%
18,513 votes · D+53.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 74.2%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
43.5%
1,412 votes · D+10.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 43.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
19,130votes
73.1% of the vote · D+47.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 18,513 votes
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
8,954votes
43.5% of the vote · D+12.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 7,795 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
James M. Cox1920
+48.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+22.1 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Walter Mondale, 1984 · +46.8 pts
Republican
William H. Taft1912
−15.9pts R vs U.S.
Place D+35.5 · U.S. D+19.5 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1932 · −25.3 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
With a 2024 presidential margin of D+30.4, this district stands well outside Indiana's statewide competitive range. Its voting pattern reflects a dense, urban core that consistently delivers outsized Democratic margins in state and federal contests.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 53.1 points in 1964. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 6.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 30.4 points.
A population of 68,093, a 50% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $52,672 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 26.
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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