- Lead
- 14,924
- Total
- 54,099
- vs nation
- D+29.1
North Carolina 40th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 15,234
- Total
- 55,777
- vs nation
- D+22.9
- Lead
- 9,153
- Total
- 49,691
- vs nation
- D+16.3
- Lead
- 4,353
- Total
- 45,719
- vs nation
- D+5.7
- Lead
- 5,287
- Total
- 41,484
- vs nation
- D+5.5
- Lead
- 1,277
- Total
- 32,801
- vs nation
- R+1.4
- Lead
- 2,236
- Total
- 25,292
- vs nation
- R+9.4
- Lead
- 827
- Total
- 21,259
- vs nation
- R+12.4
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+27.6MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 86,3592024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,101 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 41.1 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $113,0892024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 70.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 12.4%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 7.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+76.1 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+43.2 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 11, NC · twin score 96.3
presidential history
Party record book
North Carolina 40th 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. Roosevelt1936
88.1%
1,843 votes · D+76.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 · 85.9%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
70.8%
5,435 votes · R+43.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 62.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
34,918votes
62.6% of the vote · D+27.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 33,945 votes
Republican
Mitt Romney2012
20,263votes
44.3% of the vote · D+9.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 19,684 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
John W. Davis1924
+67.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+42.6 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 · +61.9 pts
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
+20.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+43.2 · U.S. R+23.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Bob Dole, 1996 · +12.4 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.
North Carolina House District 40 returned a 27.6-point Democratic presidential margin in 2024, reflecting the dense, diverse population typical of Charlotte's inner districts, where urban concentration tends to compress Republican competitiveness.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 76.1 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 43.2 points in 1972. The 2024 margin was 27.6 points.
A population of 86,359, a 70% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $113,089 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 11 and State House District 34.
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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