- Lead
- 33,944
- Total
- 44,348
- vs nation
- D+78.0
Michigan 8th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 37,004
- Total
- 45,658
- vs nation
- D+76.6
- Lead
- 34,940
- Total
- 43,386
- vs nation
- D+78.4
- Lead
- 39,355
- Total
- 46,624
- vs nation
- D+80.6
- Lead
- 43,690
- Total
- 51,212
- vs nation
- D+78.0
- Lead
- 38,528
- Total
- 46,148
- vs nation
- D+85.9
- Lead
- 34,063
- Total
- 41,494
- vs nation
- D+81.6
- Lead
- 32,002
- Total
- 39,612
- vs nation
- D+72.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+76.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 91,1132024 5-year
- Population density
- 4,770 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 19.1 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $54,6122024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 24.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 68.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 2.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+97.9 in 1876MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 5, MI · twin score 99.3
presidential history
Party record book
Michigan 8th 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
98.9%
1,070 votes · D+97.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Winfield S. Hancock, 1880 · 98.7%
Republican
Calvin Coolidge1924
28.1%
974 votes · D+14.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 18.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
51,377votes
96.6% of the vote · D+93.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 47,048 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
4,718votes
10.6% of the vote · D+76.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 4,171 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
+111.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+92.1 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1900 · +103.0 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
−7.6pts R vs U.S.
Place D+1.5 · U.S. R+6.1 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William H. Taft, 1912 · −38.0 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 | 64.6%27,884 | 35.4%15,307 | 43,191 |
| 2020 | D | 67.7%19,083 | 32.3%9,122 | 28,205 |
Michigan 8th State House District sits in the Great Lakes. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 97.9 points in 1876. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.5 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 76.5 points.
A population of 91,113, a 24% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $54,612 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 5 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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