- Lead
- 6,874
- Total
- 24,345
- vs nation
- R+26.8
Indiana 48th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 6,327
- Total
- 25,797
- vs nation
- R+29.0
- Lead
- 6,865
- Total
- 22,963
- vs nation
- R+32.0
- Lead
- 5,680
- Total
- 23,621
- vs nation
- R+27.9
- Lead
- 2,099
- Total
- 24,985
- vs nation
- R+15.7
- Lead
- 8,261
- Total
- 21,183
- vs nation
- R+36.5
- Lead
- 6,657
- Total
- 18,619
- vs nation
- R+36.3
- Lead
- 3,883
- Total
- 17,442
- vs nation
- R+30.8
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+28.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 67,4202024 5-year
- Population density
- 885 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 76.2 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $65,9072024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 70.5%2024 5-year
- Black
- 6.4%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 15.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+28.5 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+47.8 in 1928MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 21, IN · twin score 96.0
presidential history
Party record book
Indiana 48th 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
53.1%
7,782 votes · D+6.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 51.9%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
73.6%
7,056 votes · R+47.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 71.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
11,321votes
45.3% of the vote · R+8.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 9,515 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
15,842votes
61.4% of the vote · R+24.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 15,433 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
Woodrow Wilson1912
+8.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+28.5 · U.S. D+19.5 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1908 · +7.7 pts
Republican
George W. Bush2004
+36.5pts R vs U.S.
Place R+39.0 · U.S. R+2.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2000 · +36.3 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
With a 2024 presidential margin of R+28.2, this district sits well outside competitive territory, reflecting a rural or exurban constituency that has moved steadily toward one-party consistency over the past decade.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 28.5 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 47.8 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 28.2 points.
A population of 67,420, a 71% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $65,907 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 21 and State House District 94.
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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