- Lead
- 665
- Total
- 44,632
- vs nation
- D+3.0
Michigan 2nd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 4,334
- Total
- 44,425
- vs nation
- D+5.3
- Lead
- 2,268
- Total
- 38,528
- vs nation
- D+3.8
- Lead
- 6,319
- Total
- 38,617
- vs nation
- D+12.5
- Lead
- 8,288
- Total
- 41,530
- vs nation
- D+12.7
- Lead
- 3,039
- Total
- 42,146
- vs nation
- D+9.7
- Lead
- 2,985
- Total
- 36,946
- vs nation
- D+7.6
- Lead
- 5,807
- Total
- 35,182
- vs nation
- D+8.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+1.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 93,1682024 5-year
- Population density
- 5,119 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 18.2 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $65,6822024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 66.5%2024 5-year
- Black
- 8.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 18.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+22.7 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+81.1 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 29, MI · twin score 88.1
presidential history
Party record book
Michigan 2nd 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
61.3%
30,990 votes · D+22.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 59.3%
Republican
Calvin Coolidge1924
85.2%
20,087 votes · R+81.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 83.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
30,990votes
61.3% of the vote · D+22.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 28,734 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
36,034votes
59.2% of the vote · R+18.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 34,095 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 Obama2008
+12.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+20.0 · U.S. D+7.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · +12.5 pts
Republican
Calvin Coolidge1924
+55.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+81.1 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · +54.0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | D | 68.3%28,218 | 31.7%13,106 | 41,324 |
Michigan 2nd State House District sits in the Great Lakes. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 22.7 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 81.1 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 8.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 1.5 points.
A population of 93,168, a 67% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $65,682 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 29 and State House District 3.
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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