- Lead
- 4,058
- Total
- 40,690
- vs nation
- R+8.5
Indiana 88th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 4,724
- Total
- 38,815
- vs nation
- R+16.6
- Lead
- 7,764
- Total
- 32,435
- vs nation
- R+26.0
- Lead
- 7,458
- Total
- 30,223
- vs nation
- R+28.5
- Lead
- 4,425
- Total
- 30,916
- vs nation
- R+21.6
- Lead
- 10,274
- Total
- 26,678
- vs nation
- R+36.1
- Lead
- 7,789
- Total
- 22,133
- vs nation
- R+35.7
- Lead
- 6,207
- Total
- 21,319
- vs nation
- R+37.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+10.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 68,3922024 5-year
- Population density
- 611 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 112 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $128,0872024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 80.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 7.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 4.0%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+21.8 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+54.3 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 25, IN · twin score 89.4
presidential history
Party record book
Indiana 88th 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
Grover Cleveland1884
50.4%
1,486 votes · D+1.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 49.8%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
76.8%
14,667 votes · R+54.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 72.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
17,942votes
44.1% of the vote · R+10.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 16,665 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
22,000votes
54.1% of the vote · R+10.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 21,389 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
+7.6pts D vs U.S.
Place R+18.6 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1912 · +2.3 pts
Republican
Bob Dole1996
+37.6pts R vs U.S.
Place R+29.1 · U.S. D+8.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · +36.1 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 | 42.3%12,939 | 57.7%17,664 | 30,603 |
Its 2024 presidential margin of R+10.0 ranked among Indiana's closest, against R+14.3 in 2008. About 56,300 residents lived here, with White alone at 73.7% in the 2024 ACS 5-year.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 21.8 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 54.3 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.2 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 10.0 points.
A population of 68,392, a 80% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $128,087 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 25 and State House District 59.
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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