- Lead
- 3,328
- Total
- 18,281
- vs nation
- R+16.7
Iowa 76th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 2,564
- Total
- 18,378
- vs nation
- R+18.4
- Lead
- 2,720
- Total
- 16,960
- vs nation
- R+18.1
- Lead
- 312
- Total
- 16,997
- vs nation
- R+5.7
- Lead
- 168
- Total
- 16,387
- vs nation
- R+6.2
- Lead
- 1,700
- Total
- 16,586
- vs nation
- R+7.8
- Lead
- 1,324
- Total
- 14,352
- vs nation
- R+9.7
- Lead
- 48
- Total
- 13,500
- vs nation
- R+8.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+18.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 31,6262024 5-year
- Population density
- 72 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 439 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $82,6022024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 90.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.9%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 2.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+9.2 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+64.5 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 57, IA · twin score 93.7
presidential history
Party record book
Iowa 76th 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
51.8%
6,925 votes · D+3.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 49.7%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
80.1%
6,705 votes · R+64.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 73.0%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2012
8,179votes
48.1% of the vote · R+1.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 8,145 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
10,658votes
58.3% of the vote · R+18.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 10,296 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
+1.8pts D vs U.S.
Place R+5.9 · U.S. R+7.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Walter Mondale, 1984 · −3.7 pts
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
+38.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+64.5 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Charles E. Hughes, 1916 · +36.5 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.
Iowa 76th State House District sits in the Corn Belt. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 9.2 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 64.5 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 18.2 points.
A population of 31,626, a 90% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $82,602 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 57 and State House District 84.
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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Iowa 76th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/19076/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.