- Lead
- 4,591
- Total
- 54,546
- vs nation
- R+6.9
Michigan 27th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 2,227
- Total
- 54,533
- vs nation
- R+8.5
- Lead
- 3,738
- Total
- 47,087
- vs nation
- R+10.0
- Lead
- 957
- Total
- 46,564
- vs nation
- R+1.8
- Lead
- 2,905
- Total
- 49,772
- vs nation
- R+1.4
- Lead
- 3,698
- Total
- 51,512
- vs nation
- R+4.7
- Lead
- 2,740
- Total
- 45,114
- vs nation
- R+6.6
- Lead
- 1,443
- Total
- 42,297
- vs nation
- R+5.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+8.4MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 90,4492024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,660 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 34 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $77,8112024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 84.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 3.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 6.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+8.4 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+84.6 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 28, MI · twin score 92.6
presidential history
Party record book
Michigan 27th 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
54.1%
32,687 votes · D+8.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 52.1%
Republican
Calvin Coolidge1924
87.6%
28,387 votes · R+84.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 86.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
32,687votes
54.1% of the vote · D+8.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 30,336 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
50,925votes
66.0% of the vote · R+32.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 48,151 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
−1.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+5.8 · U.S. D+7.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · −1.8 pts
Republican
Calvin Coolidge1924
+59.4pts R vs U.S.
Place R+84.6 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · +58.3 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%27,394 | 31.7%12,723 | 40,117 |
Michigan 27th State House District sits in the Great Lakes. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 8.4 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 84.6 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 8.4 points.
A population of 90,449, a 84% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $77,811 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 28 and State House District 96.
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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