- Lead
- 18,703
- Total
- 58,369
- vs nation
- R+30.6
Michigan 59th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 15,414
- Total
- 55,202
- vs nation
- R+32.4
- Lead
- 14,915
- Total
- 45,872
- vs nation
- R+34.6
- Lead
- 8,002
- Total
- 42,946
- vs nation
- R+22.5
- Lead
- 6,101
- Total
- 44,241
- vs nation
- R+21.1
- Lead
- 10,296
- Total
- 43,221
- vs nation
- R+21.4
- Lead
- 7,224
- Total
- 36,962
- vs nation
- R+20.1
- Lead
- 3,323
- Total
- 31,655
- vs nation
- R+19.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+32.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 89,3362024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,239 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 39.9 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $107,0362024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 87.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 2.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 2.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+30.1 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+71.1 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 60, MI · twin score 94.3
presidential history
Party record book
Michigan 59th 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
65.0%
10,913 votes · D+30.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 52.0%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
84.5%
1,305 votes · R+71.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 78.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
19,604votes
35.5% of the vote · R+27.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 19,414 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
38,117votes
65.3% of the vote · R+32.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 35,018 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
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
+7.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+30.1 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hubert Humphrey, 1968 · +6.5 pts
Republican
Charles E. Hughes1916
+53.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+49.8 · U.S. D+3.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · +50.1 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 | R | 42.8%20,602 | 57.2%27,579 | 48,181 |
| 2020 | R | 47.5%22,463 | 52.5%24,829 | 47,292 |
Michigan 59th State House District sits in the Great Lakes. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 30.1 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 71.1 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 32.0 points.
A population of 89,336, a 87% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $107,036 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 60 and State House District 63.
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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Michigan 59th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/26059/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.