- Lead
- 15,678
- Total
- 57,103
- vs nation
- R+26.0
Michigan 79th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 14,871
- Total
- 53,259
- vs nation
- R+32.4
- Lead
- 15,996
- Total
- 44,163
- vs nation
- R+38.3
- Lead
- 15,829
- Total
- 42,140
- vs nation
- R+41.4
- Lead
- 12,918
- Total
- 42,980
- vs nation
- R+37.3
- Lead
- 20,000
- Total
- 43,518
- vs nation
- R+43.5
- Lead
- 17,622
- Total
- 37,815
- vs nation
- R+47.1
- Lead
- 12,752
- Total
- 32,803
- vs nation
- R+47.4
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+27.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 90,9522024 5-year
- Population density
- 369 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 246 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $94,2772024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 82.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 4.4%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 5.0%2024 5-year
- Peak Republican margin
- R+72.3 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 85, MI · twin score 97.1
presidential history
Party record book
Michigan 79th 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
41.8%
8,441 votes · R+16.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1916 · 36.7%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
85.2%
10,365 votes · R+71.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 82.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
20,293votes
35.5% of the vote · R+27.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 18,668 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
35,971votes
63.0% of the vote · R+27.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 33,539 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
−25.5pts D vs U.S.
Place R+48.7 · U.S. R+23.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1916 · −25.8 pts
Republican
Gerald Ford1976
+57.7pts R vs U.S.
Place R+55.7 · U.S. D+2.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · +53.6 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 | 47.1%23,398 | 52.9%26,243 | 49,641 |
| 2020 | R | 46.7%21,104 | 53.3%24,080 | 45,184 |
Michigan 79th State House District sits in the Great Lakes. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Republican high of 72.3 points in 1924. The 2024 margin was 27.5 points.
A population of 90,952, a 82% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $94,277 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 85 and State House District 90.
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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