- Lead
- 3,377
- Total
- 27,217
- vs nation
- D+13.9
Indiana 8th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 4,690
- Total
- 28,692
- vs nation
- D+11.9
- Lead
- 2,712
- Total
- 27,785
- vs nation
- D+7.7
- Lead
- 3,785
- Total
- 27,731
- vs nation
- D+9.8
- Lead
- 8,032
- Total
- 29,955
- vs nation
- D+19.5
- Lead
- 2,057
- Total
- 27,033
- vs nation
- D+10.1
- Lead
- 2,449
- Total
- 23,940
- vs nation
- D+9.7
- Lead
- 3,896
- Total
- 23,406
- vs nation
- D+8.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+12.4MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 68,1042024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,201 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 56.7 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $72,4592024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 70.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 12.6%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 7.3%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+34.3 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+20.2 in 1904MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 75, MI · twin score 78.4
presidential history
Party record book
Indiana 8th 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
66.5%
17,970 votes · D+33.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 65.9%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
57.5%
2,553 votes · R+20.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 55.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
18,763votes
62.6% of the vote · D+26.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 17,970 votes
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
14,417votes
55.5% of the vote · R+11.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 12,929 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
+22.5pts D vs U.S.
Place D+7.1 · U.S. R+15.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Walter Mondale, 1984 · +21.2 pts
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
+0.5pts R vs U.S.
Place R+20.2 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William H. Taft, 1912 · +0.1 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%14,687 | 48.6%13,894 | 28,581 |
Indiana 8th State House District sits in the Upper Midwest. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 34.3 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 20.2 points in 1904. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 12.4 points.
A population of 68,104, a 71% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $72,459 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 75 and State House District 6.
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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