- Lead
- 14,065
- Total
- 23,968
- vs nation
- D+60.2
Michigan 1st State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 18,103
- Total
- 25,027
- vs nation
- D+67.9
- Lead
- 18,381
- Total
- 23,398
- vs nation
- D+76.5
- Lead
- 21,457
- Total
- 25,870
- vs nation
- D+79.1
- Lead
- 24,009
- Total
- 28,859
- vs nation
- D+75.9
- Lead
- 21,423
- Total
- 26,306
- vs nation
- D+83.9
- Lead
- 18,725
- Total
- 23,586
- vs nation
- D+78.9
- Lead
- 18,263
- Total
- 22,952
- vs nation
- D+71.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+58.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 90,5092024 5-year
- Population density
- 3,787 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 23.9 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $40,9752024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 17.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 32.4%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 46.0%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+91.1 in 1876MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+38.4 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Assembly District 6, NV · twin score 97.5
presidential history
Party record book
Michigan 1st 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
Samuel J. Tilden1876
95.5%
526 votes · D+91.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 92.9%
Republican
Calvin Coolidge1924
59.2%
2,577 votes · R+38.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 46.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
33,028votes
92.9% of the vote · D+85.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 30,752 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
4,623votes
19.3% of the vote · D+58.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 4,610 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
George McGovern1972
+87.0pts D vs U.S.
Place D+63.8 · U.S. R+23.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Walter Mondale, 1984 · +86.7 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+30.7pts R vs U.S.
Place R+36.8 · U.S. R+6.1 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · +13.3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | D | 75.8%15,472 | 24.2%4,929 | 20,401 |
| 2018 | D | 98.3%8,672 | 1.7%152 | 8,824 |
Michigan 1st State House District sits in the Great Lakes. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 91.1 points in 1876 and a Republican high of 38.4 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 13.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 58.7 points.
A population of 90,509, a 18% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $40,975 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Assembly District 6 and State House District 2.
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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