- Lead
- 1,749
- Total
- 18,033
- vs nation
- D+11.2
Iowa 44th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 2,304
- Total
- 18,912
- vs nation
- D+7.7
- Lead
- 1,211
- Total
- 18,207
- vs nation
- D+4.6
- Lead
- 1,628
- Total
- 17,866
- vs nation
- D+5.3
- Lead
- 1,647
- Total
- 16,695
- vs nation
- D+2.6
- Lead
- 99
- Total
- 15,912
- vs nation
- D+1.8
- Lead
- 73
- Total
- 13,639
- vs nation
- Even
- Lead
- 1,253
- Total
- 12,123
- vs nation
- D+1.8
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+9.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 31,7572024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,076 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 15.3 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $98,6212024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 79.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 5.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 5.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+28.1 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+59.2 in 1904MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 32, IA · twin score 94.5
presidential history
Party record book
Iowa 44th 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
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
63.8%
5,530 votes · D+28.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Michael Dukakis, 1988 · 56.6%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
74.9%
1,174 votes · R+59.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 70.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
10,410votes
55.0% of the vote · D+12.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 9,720 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
8,106votes
42.9% of the vote · D+12.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 7,971 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
Michael Dukakis1988
+21.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+13.7 · U.S. R+7.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Walter Mondale, 1984 · +15.9 pts
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
+39.6pts R vs U.S.
Place R+59.2 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · +28.9 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.
With a 2024 presidential margin of D+9.7, this district bucks Iowa's broader rightward drift, suggesting a concentrated pocket of urban or university-adjacent voters that continues to anchor Democratic performance at the local level.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 28.1 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 59.2 points in 1904. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.5 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 9.7 points.
A population of 31,757, a 79% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $98,621 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 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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