- Lead
- 35,625
- Total
- 46,690
- vs nation
- D+77.8
Michigan 5th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 39,695
- Total
- 48,231
- vs nation
- D+77.8
- Lead
- 37,797
- Total
- 44,144
- vs nation
- D+83.5
- Lead
- 42,105
- Total
- 47,812
- vs nation
- D+84.2
- Lead
- 46,406
- Total
- 52,245
- vs nation
- D+81.6
- Lead
- 40,981
- Total
- 46,900
- vs nation
- D+89.8
- Lead
- 36,304
- Total
- 42,096
- vs nation
- D+85.7
- Lead
- 33,654
- Total
- 39,254
- vs nation
- D+77.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+76.3MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 90,1052024 5-year
- Population density
- 6,577 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 13.7 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $51,8532024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 13.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 80.9%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 1.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+97.7 in 1892MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 8, MI · twin score 99.3
presidential history
Party record book
Michigan 5th 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
Grover Cleveland1892
98.8%
1,742 votes · D+97.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Grover Cleveland, 1888 · 98.5%
Republican
Calvin Coolidge1924
24.7%
714 votes · D+27.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 15.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
50,979votes
97.3% of the vote · D+94.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 49,095 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
5,116votes
11.0% of the vote · D+76.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 4,097 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
Alton B. Parker1904
+114.0pts D vs U.S.
Place D+94.4 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George McGovern, 1972 · +105.6 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
−6.8pts R vs U.S.
Place D+0.7 · U.S. R+6.1 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · −52.5 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.
| Year | Vote lead | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | D | 63.2%27,688 | 36.8%16,110 | 43,798 |
| 2020 | D | 65.5%20,240 | 34.5%10,644 | 30,884 |
Michigan 5th State House District sits in the Great Lakes. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 97.7 points in 1892. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 6.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 76.3 points.
A population of 90,105, a 13% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $51,853 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 8 and State House District 4.
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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