- Lead
- 2,574
- Total
- 20,941
- vs nation
- D+13.8
Indiana 77th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 3,863
- Total
- 23,204
- vs nation
- D+12.2
- Lead
- 2,161
- Total
- 22,563
- vs nation
- D+7.5
- Lead
- 3,701
- Total
- 22,735
- vs nation
- D+12.4
- Lead
- 7,320
- Total
- 25,290
- vs nation
- D+21.7
- Lead
- 2,135
- Total
- 21,429
- vs nation
- D+12.4
- Lead
- 3,524
- Total
- 20,641
- vs nation
- D+16.6
- Lead
- 5,975
- Total
- 21,718
- vs nation
- D+19.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+12.3MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 67,9742024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,320 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 29.3 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $51,2152024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 67.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 19.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 4.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+65.2 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+11.1 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Legislative Subdistrict 2B, MD · twin score 82.5
presidential history
Party record book
Indiana 77th 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. Roosevelt1936
81.9%
16,984 votes · D+65.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 75.4%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
55.3%
11,366 votes · R+11.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 45.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
18,719votes
74.4% of the vote · D+49.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 16,984 votes
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
11,366votes
55.3% of the vote · R+11.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 9,839 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
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
+41.0pts D vs U.S.
Place D+65.2 · U.S. D+24.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James M. Cox, 1920 · +36.3 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2016
−7.5pts R vs U.S.
Place D+9.6 · U.S. D+2.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William H. Taft, 1912 · −11.0 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Indiana 77th State House District sits in the Upper Midwest. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 65.2 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 11.1 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 12.3 points.
A population of 67,974, a 67% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $51,215 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Legislative Subdistrict 2B and State House District 82.
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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