- Lead
- 1,606
- Total
- 22,790
- vs nation
- D+8.5
Indiana 27th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 1,796
- Total
- 25,489
- vs nation
- D+2.6
- Lead
- 189
- Total
- 23,080
- vs nation
- R+2.9
- Lead
- 304
- Total
- 20,883
- vs nation
- R+2.4
- Lead
- 4,185
- Total
- 25,343
- vs nation
- D+9.2
- Lead
- 2,683
- Total
- 18,913
- vs nation
- R+11.7
- Lead
- 2,053
- Total
- 16,432
- vs nation
- R+13.0
- Lead
- 1,217
- Total
- 16,642
- vs nation
- R+15.8
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+7.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 68,0382024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,025 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 33.6 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $53,4442024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 68.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 10.4%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 14.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+16.6 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+36.9 in 1952MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Delegate District 81, WV · twin score 79.7
presidential history
Party record book
Indiana 27th 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
Barack Obama2008
57.3%
14,527 votes · D+16.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 55.5%
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1952
68.3%
8,154 votes · R+36.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 67.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
14,527votes
57.3% of the vote · D+16.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 13,274 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
11,478votes
45.0% of the vote · D+7.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 10,917 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
Barack Obama2008
+9.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+16.5 · U.S. D+7.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · +8.5 pts
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1952
+26.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+36.9 · U.S. R+10.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Thomas E. Dewey, 1944 · +24.0 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 | R | 48.2%12,213 | 51.8%13,126 | 25,339 |
Indiana 27th State House District sits in the Upper Midwest. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 16.6 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 36.9 points in 1952. The 2024 margin was 7.0 points.
A population of 68,038, a 68% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $53,444 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Delegate District 81 and Delegate District 79.
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 27th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/18027/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.