- Lead
- 13,057
- Total
- 32,053
- vs nation
- R+39.3
Indiana 85th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 13,601
- Total
- 32,270
- vs nation
- R+46.6
- Lead
- 13,622
- Total
- 28,355
- vs nation
- R+50.1
- Lead
- 13,344
- Total
- 27,768
- vs nation
- R+51.9
- Lead
- 10,284
- Total
- 27,365
- vs nation
- R+44.9
- Lead
- 14,148
- Total
- 25,504
- vs nation
- R+53.0
- Lead
- 12,013
- Total
- 22,021
- vs nation
- R+55.1
- Lead
- 9,176
- Total
- 20,981
- vs nation
- R+52.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+40.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 67,6892024 5-year
- Population density
- 168 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 404 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $85,1002024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 88.6%2024 5-year
- Black
- 3.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 3.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+4.2 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+65.6 in 1956MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 146, MO · twin score 94.9
presidential history
Party record book
Indiana 85th 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
45.9%
788 votes · R+8.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Grover Cleveland, 1884 · 45.5%
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
82.7%
14,008 votes · R+65.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 79.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
9,235votes
28.8% of the vote · R+40.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 9,010 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
22,611votes
70.1% of the vote · R+42.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 22,292 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
−8.8pts D vs U.S.
Place R+7.2 · U.S. D+1.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1912 · −15.4 pts
Republican
Wendell Willkie1940
+56.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+46.1 · U.S. D+9.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2000 · +55.1 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%11,000 | 58.7%15,619 | 26,619 |
Indiana 85th State House District sits in the Upper Midwest. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 4.2 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 65.6 points in 1956. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.4 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 40.7 points.
A population of 67,689, a 89% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $85,100 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 146 and State House District 99.
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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