- Lead
- 15,661
- Total
- 54,483
- vs nation
- R+27.3
North Carolina 1st State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 12,240
- Total
- 48,886
- vs nation
- R+29.5
- Lead
- 10,167
- Total
- 42,285
- vs nation
- R+26.1
- Lead
- 5,381
- Total
- 40,924
- vs nation
- R+17.0
- Lead
- 4,147
- Total
- 40,681
- vs nation
- R+17.5
- Lead
- 5,601
- Total
- 32,573
- vs nation
- R+14.7
- Lead
- 1,720
- Total
- 27,573
- vs nation
- R+6.8
- Lead
- 2,233
- Total
- 24,265
- vs nation
- D+0.7
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+28.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 82,8122024 5-year
- Population density
- 48 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 1,729 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $75,3532024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 72.8%2024 5-year
- Black
- 17.9%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 4.0%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+70.2 in 1940MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+30.6 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 53, VA · twin score 93.5
presidential history
Party record book
North Carolina 1st 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
Franklin D. Roosevelt1940
85.1%
7,608 votes · D+70.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 84.1%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
64.5%
8,814 votes · R+30.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 63.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
19,094votes
35.0% of the vote · R+28.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 18,070 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
34,755votes
63.8% of the vote · R+28.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 30,244 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
James M. Cox1920
+61.5pts D vs U.S.
Place D+35.3 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 · +60.3 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2020
+29.5pts R vs U.S.
Place R+25.0 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · +27.3 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.
Its Republican presidential margin was R+28.7 in 2024 and R+10.2 in 2008. About 102,000 residents lived here, with White alone at 75% in the 2024 ACS 5-year.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 70.2 points in 1940 and a Republican high of 30.6 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 28.7 points.
A population of 82,812, a 73% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $75,353 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 53 and State House District 68.
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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