- Lead
- 10,458
- Total
- 34,869
- vs nation
- D+31.5
Indiana 87th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 10,825
- Total
- 38,374
- vs nation
- D+23.8
- Lead
- 5,575
- Total
- 36,009
- vs nation
- D+13.4
- Lead
- 5,217
- Total
- 35,179
- vs nation
- D+11.0
- Lead
- 7,788
- Total
- 36,917
- vs nation
- D+13.8
- Lead
- 1,798
- Total
- 31,747
- vs nation
- R+3.2
- Lead
- 2,451
- Total
- 27,616
- vs nation
- R+9.4
- Lead
- 2,847
- Total
- 28,520
- vs nation
- R+18.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+30.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 67,8592024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,114 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 32.1 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $80,2632024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 69.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 17.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 6.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+30.0 in 2024MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+39.8 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 32, KY · twin score 94.6
presidential history
Party record book
Indiana 87th 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
Kamala Harris2024
64.0%
22,311 votes · D+30.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 63.1%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
69.5%
21,809 votes · R+39.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 65.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
24,227votes
63.1% of the vote · D+28.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 22,311 votes
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
21,809votes
69.5% of the vote · R+39.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 19,627 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
Kamala Harris2024
+31.5pts D vs U.S.
Place D+30.0 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +23.8 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+27.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+4.4 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1960 · +23.0 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 | D | 63.4%15,068 | 36.6%8,710 | 23,778 |
Indiana 87th State House District sits in the Upper Midwest. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 30.0 points in 2024 and a Republican high of 39.8 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.8 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 30.0 points.
A population of 67,859, a 69% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $80,263 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 32 and State House District 86.
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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