- Lead
- 97
- Total
- 29,541
- vs nation
- D+1.1
Indiana 71st State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 119
- Total
- 30,486
- vs nation
- R+4.1
- Lead
- 1,488
- Total
- 28,088
- vs nation
- R+7.4
- Lead
- 1,989
- Total
- 26,335
- vs nation
- D+3.7
- Lead
- 2,815
- Total
- 26,789
- vs nation
- D+3.2
- Lead
- 265
- Total
- 23,162
- vs nation
- D+3.6
- Lead
- 2,420
- Total
- 20,719
- vs nation
- D+11.2
- Lead
- 5,066
- Total
- 20,650
- vs nation
- D+16.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+0.3MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 67,9152024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,811 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 37.5 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $63,9922024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 71.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 12.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 8.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+51.7 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+5.3 in 2016MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 7, NC · twin score 75.3
presidential history
Party record book
Indiana 71st 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
75.6%
11,459 votes · D+51.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 70.8%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
50.8%
7,491 votes · R+2.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · 49.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
14,985votes
49.2% of the vote · D+0.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 14,595 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
14,866votes
48.8% of the vote · D+0.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 14,523 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
+45.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+19.5 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John W. Davis, 1924 · +36.3 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2016
+7.4pts R vs U.S.
Place R+5.3 · U.S. D+2.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · +4.1 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Indiana 71st State House District sits in the Upper Midwest. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 51.7 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 5.3 points in 2016. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 0.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 0.3 points.
A population of 67,915, a 71% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $63,992 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 7 and State House District 118.
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.
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