- Lead
- 8,375
- Total
- 59,831
- vs nation
- R+12.5
Michigan 72nd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 6,601
- Total
- 57,445
- vs nation
- R+15.9
- Lead
- 7,520
- Total
- 48,524
- vs nation
- R+17.6
- Lead
- 935
- Total
- 47,242
- vs nation
- R+5.8
- Lead
- 2,059
- Total
- 49,696
- vs nation
- R+3.1
- Lead
- 4,324
- Total
- 49,424
- vs nation
- R+6.3
- Lead
- 979
- Total
- 43,186
- vs nation
- R+2.8
- Lead
- 1,868
- Total
- 38,890
- vs nation
- R+3.7
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+14.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 92,8442024 5-year
- Population density
- 559 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 166 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $86,6562024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 85.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 4.9%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 3.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+16.1 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+78.3 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 68, MI · twin score 90.8
presidential history
Party record book
Michigan 72nd 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
55.8%
16,069 votes · D+11.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 55.7%
Republican
Calvin Coolidge1924
86.0%
8,017 votes · R+78.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 85.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
25,338votes
51.0% of the vote · D+4.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 25,311 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
33,686votes
56.3% of the vote · R+14.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 31,568 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
Bill Clinton1992
−2.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+2.9 · U.S. D+5.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Al Gore, 2000 · −2.8 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
+53.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+71.3 · U.S. R+17.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · +53.1 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 | D | 53.9%26,968 | 46.1%23,065 | 50,033 |
| 2020 | D | 57.3%28,738 | 42.7%21,454 | 50,192 |
In 2024 it voted Republican by R+14.0, against D+4.2 in 2008, having changed party at least once across the five cycles. The district had about 158,000 residents, 71.5% White alone in the 2024 ACS 5-year.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 16.1 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 78.3 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.5 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 14.0 points.
A population of 92,844, a 85% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $86,656 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 68 and State House District 66.
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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