- Lead
- 20,272
- Total
- 28,952
- vs nation
- D+71.5
Indiana 96th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 22,977
- Total
- 31,415
- vs nation
- D+68.7
- Lead
- 21,590
- Total
- 29,811
- vs nation
- D+70.3
- Lead
- 21,993
- Total
- 29,083
- vs nation
- D+71.8
- Lead
- 24,974
- Total
- 31,762
- vs nation
- D+71.4
- Lead
- 15,108
- Total
- 22,913
- vs nation
- D+68.4
- Lead
- 12,328
- Total
- 19,405
- vs nation
- D+63.0
- Lead
- 11,266
- Total
- 19,551
- vs nation
- D+49.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+70.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 68,2022024 5-year
- Population density
- 3,462 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 19.7 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $61,3602024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 42.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 43.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 7.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+78.6 in 2008MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 42, KY · twin score 98.9
presidential history
Party record book
Indiana 96th 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
Barack Obama2008
89.0%
28,254 votes · D+78.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 87.0%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
30.4%
5,268 votes · D+38.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 26.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
28,254votes
89.0% of the vote · D+78.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 26,944 votes
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
5,268votes
30.4% of the vote · D+38.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 4,503 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
+79.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+53.4 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1908 · +72.8 pts
Republican
William H. Taft1912
−40.0pts R vs U.S.
Place D+59.6 · U.S. D+19.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George H. W. Bush, 1992 · −43.4 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%15,144 | 36.6%8,754 | 23,898 |
District 96 recorded a D+70.0 presidential margin in 2024, placing it among the most heavily one-sided state house districts in Indiana. Its urban concentration drives some of the state's starkest partisan asymmetry at the district level.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 78.6 points in 2008. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 70.0 points.
A population of 68,202, a 42% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $61,360 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 42 and State House District 43.
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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Indiana 96th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/18096/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.