- Lead
- 7,907
- Total
- 33,230
- vs nation
- R+22.3
Indiana 81st State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 7,953
- Total
- 32,522
- vs nation
- R+28.9
- Lead
- 9,227
- Total
- 26,976
- vs nation
- R+36.3
- Lead
- 8,750
- Total
- 26,680
- vs nation
- R+36.7
- Lead
- 5,621
- Total
- 26,698
- vs nation
- R+28.3
- Lead
- 10,076
- Total
- 23,874
- vs nation
- R+39.7
- Lead
- 8,431
- Total
- 20,821
- vs nation
- R+41.0
- Lead
- 6,161
- Total
- 20,072
- vs nation
- R+39.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+23.8MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 67,7242024 5-year
- Population density
- 518 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 131 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $82,4562024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 78.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 5.4%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 6.0%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+15.8 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+52.3 in 1956MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 84, IN · twin score 96.0
presidential history
Party record book
Indiana 81st 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
Samuel J. Tilden1876
56.4%
1,118 votes · D+13.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Grover Cleveland, 1884 · 55.4%
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
76.0%
12,002 votes · R+52.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 73.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
12,387votes
37.3% of the vote · R+23.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 11,930 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
20,294votes
61.1% of the vote · R+23.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 19,883 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
Grover Cleveland1892
+10.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+11.8 · U.S. D+1.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1908 · +4.1 pts
Republican
George W. Bush2000
+41.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+40.5 · U.S. D+0.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Wendell Willkie, 1940 · +40.5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | R | 41.3%11,006 | 58.7%15,627 | 26,633 |
Indiana 81st State House District sits in the Upper Midwest. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 15.8 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 52.3 points in 1956. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 0.7 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 23.8 points.
A population of 67,724, a 79% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $82,456 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 84 and State House District 85.
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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