- Lead
- 15,087
- Total
- 28,460
- vs nation
- R+51.5
Indiana 22nd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 14,929
- Total
- 29,145
- vs nation
- R+55.7
- Lead
- 14,613
- Total
- 26,708
- vs nation
- R+56.8
- Lead
- 12,967
- Total
- 24,715
- vs nation
- R+56.3
- Lead
- 9,395
- Total
- 24,747
- vs nation
- R+45.2
- Lead
- 13,381
- Total
- 23,356
- vs nation
- R+54.8
- Lead
- 10,897
- Total
- 20,850
- vs nation
- R+52.8
- Lead
- 7,346
- Total
- 19,893
- vs nation
- R+45.4
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+53.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 67,3402024 5-year
- Population density
- 128 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 527 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $75,2162024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 83.7%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 10.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+12.9 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+57.8 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 18, IN · twin score 96.0
presidential history
Party record book
Indiana 22nd 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
Franklin D. Roosevelt1932
49.5%
6,178 votes · D+0.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 44.9%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
78.7%
13,604 votes · R+57.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · 78.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
7,494votes
30.3% of the vote · R+38.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 7,293 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
21,649votes
74.3% of the vote · R+51.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 21,481 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
John W. Davis1924
+2.4pts D vs U.S.
Place R+22.7 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James M. Cox, 1920 · −0.8 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2016
+56.8pts R vs U.S.
Place R+54.7 · U.S. D+2.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Mitt Romney, 2012 · +56.3 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
With a 2024 presidential margin of R+53, this district ranks among the most decisively one-sided state house seats in Indiana, suggesting a rural or small-town electorate where statewide and local races tend to move in lockstep.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 12.9 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 57.8 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 53.0 points.
A population of 67,340, a 84% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $75,216 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 18 and State House District 53.
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 22nd State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/18022/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.