- Lead
- 525
- Total
- 36,544
- vs nation
- D+2.9
Indiana 62nd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 109
- Total
- 37,660
- vs nation
- R+4.2
- Lead
- 1,657
- Total
- 33,157
- vs nation
- R+7.1
- Lead
- 1,373
- Total
- 32,422
- vs nation
- R+8.1
- Lead
- 3,381
- Total
- 34,885
- vs nation
- D+2.4
- Lead
- 4,438
- Total
- 29,838
- vs nation
- R+12.4
- Lead
- 5,157
- Total
- 23,689
- vs nation
- R+22.3
- Lead
- 2,619
- Total
- 23,830
- vs nation
- R+19.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+1.4MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 68,3332024 5-year
- Population density
- 101 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 675 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $82,7192024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 87.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 2.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 3.0%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+21.0 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+35.4 in 1960MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 48, MI · twin score 78.9
presidential history
Party record book
Indiana 62nd 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
Winfield S. Hancock1880
56.6%
2,363 votes · D+15.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Grover Cleveland, 1884 · 56.0%
Republican
Richard Nixon1960
67.4%
9,679 votes · R+35.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 67.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
18,897votes
54.2% of the vote · D+9.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 18,561 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
18,452votes
49.0% of the vote · D+0.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 17,717 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
+16.2pts D vs U.S.
Place R+10.0 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1896 · +12.5 pts
Republican
Richard Nixon1960
+35.5pts R vs U.S.
Place R+35.4 · U.S. D+0.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Alf Landon, 1936 · +31.3 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
In 2024 it voted Democratic by D+1.0, against D+9.7 in 2008, having changed party at least once across the five cycles. The district had about 113,000 residents, 83.5% White alone in the 2024 ACS 5-year.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 21.0 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 35.4 points in 1960. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.1 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 1.4 points.
A population of 68,333, a 87% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $82,719 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 48 and State House District 58.
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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