- Lead
- 1,789
- Total
- 14,274
- vs nation
- R+11.1
Iowa 96th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 820
- Total
- 15,001
- vs nation
- R+9.9
- Lead
- 792
- Total
- 14,407
- vs nation
- R+7.6
- Lead
- 2,488
- Total
- 14,590
- vs nation
- D+13.2
- Lead
- 2,317
- Total
- 14,042
- vs nation
- D+9.2
- Lead
- 550
- Total
- 13,739
- vs nation
- D+6.5
- Lead
- 524
- Total
- 11,751
- vs nation
- D+3.9
- Lead
- 1,392
- Total
- 11,296
- vs nation
- D+3.8
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+12.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 31,7782024 5-year
- Population density
- 266 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 119 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $62,7832024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 77.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 3.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 15.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+26.7 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+50.0 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 20, IA · twin score 95.8
presidential history
Party record book
Iowa 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
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
59.5%
5,909 votes · D+19.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 57.5%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
70.2%
5,874 votes · R+50.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 67.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2012
8,392votes
57.5% of the vote · D+17.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 8,070 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
7,886votes
55.2% of the vote · R+12.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 7,726 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
Barack Obama2012
+13.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+17.1 · U.S. D+3.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · +9.2 pts
Republican
Wendell Willkie1940
+27.8pts R vs U.S.
Place R+17.8 · U.S. D+9.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Thomas E. Dewey, 1944 · +26.2 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.
In 2024 it voted Republican by R+12.5, against D+16.5 in 2008, having changed party at least once across the five cycles. The district had about 11,800 residents, 80.6% White alone in the 2024 ACS 5-year.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 26.7 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 50.0 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 7.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 12.5 points.
A population of 31,778, a 77% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $62,783 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 20 and State House District 25.
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 96th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/19096/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.