- Lead
- 30,674
- Total
- 36,976
- vs nation
- D+84.4
Michigan 9th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 32,969
- Total
- 37,251
- vs nation
- D+84.0
- Lead
- 32,599
- Total
- 36,173
- vs nation
- D+88.0
- Lead
- 37,575
- Total
- 40,500
- vs nation
- D+88.9
- Lead
- 41,823
- Total
- 45,009
- vs nation
- D+85.6
- Lead
- 37,743
- Total
- 40,754
- vs nation
- D+95.1
- Lead
- 33,305
- Total
- 36,557
- vs nation
- D+90.6
- Lead
- 31,587
- Total
- 35,590
- vs nation
- D+81.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+83.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 91,1642024 5-year
- Population density
- 3,603 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 25.3 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $38,8562024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 20.7%2024 5-year
- Black
- 69.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 2.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+94.5 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+6.1 in 1896MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 8, MI · twin score 98.2
presidential history
Party record book
Michigan 9th 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
97.2%
54,370 votes · D+94.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John Kerry, 2004 · 96.2%
Republican
Calvin Coolidge1924
35.4%
1,516 votes · R+0.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 24.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
54,370votes
97.2% of the vote · D+94.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 50,662 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
2,761votes
6.0% of the vote · D+87.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 2,708 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
+107.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+84.1 · U.S. R+23.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Walter Mondale, 1984 · +104.8 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
0.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+6.1 · U.S. R+6.1 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · −24.3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | D | 68.3%27,611 | 31.7%12,824 | 40,435 |
Michigan 9th State House District sits in the Great Lakes. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 94.5 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 6.1 points in 1896. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 5.5 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 83.0 points.
A population of 91,164, a 21% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $38,856 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 10.
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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