- Lead
- 5,312
- Total
- 18,220
- vs nation
- R+27.7
Iowa 60th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 4,779
- Total
- 18,650
- vs nation
- R+30.1
- Lead
- 4,059
- Total
- 17,804
- vs nation
- R+24.9
- Lead
- 633
- Total
- 17,657
- vs nation
- R+0.3
- Lead
- 2,117
- Total
- 17,954
- vs nation
- D+4.5
- Lead
- 90
- Total
- 17,754
- vs nation
- D+3.0
- Lead
- 553
- Total
- 16,440
- vs nation
- D+2.8
- Lead
- 2,183
- Total
- 15,914
- vs nation
- D+5.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+29.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 31,9032024 5-year
- Population density
- 28 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 1,159 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $75,3612024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 93.6%2024 5-year
- Black
- 0.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 2.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+17.2 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+69.8 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 23A, MN · twin score 97.3
presidential history
Party record book
Iowa 60th 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
58.5%
10,722 votes · D+17.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 55.9%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
83.9%
11,761 votes · R+69.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · 79.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
10,722votes
58.5% of the vote · D+17.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 9,869 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1952
14,036votes
67.6% of the vote · R+35.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 12,127 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
+16.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+8.9 · U.S. R+7.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Walter Mondale, 1984 · +10.0 pts
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
+43.6pts R vs U.S.
Place R+69.8 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1900 · +41.8 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 R+29.1, this district sits well above the statewide Republican lean, pointing to a rural or small-town constituency where the GOP coalition runs deep across federal and state contests.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 17.2 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 69.8 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.5 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 29.2 points.
A population of 31,903, a 94% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $75,361 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 23A and State House District 16A.
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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