- Lead
- 7,096
- Total
- 34,887
- vs nation
- D+21.8
North Carolina 44th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 9,034
- Total
- 37,805
- vs nation
- D+19.4
- Lead
- 7,888
- Total
- 34,775
- vs nation
- D+20.6
- Lead
- 9,257
- Total
- 35,014
- vs nation
- D+22.6
- Lead
- 8,580
- Total
- 34,774
- vs nation
- D+17.4
- Lead
- 965
- Total
- 25,547
- vs nation
- D+6.2
- Lead
- 1,615
- Total
- 20,744
- vs nation
- D+7.3
- Lead
- 2,040
- Total
- 18,105
- vs nation
- D+2.7
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+20.3MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 82,6832024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,002 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 41.3 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $54,9252024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 36.7%2024 5-year
- Black
- 41.4%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 10.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+77.2 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+35.6 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 45, NC · twin score 97.9
presidential history
Party record book
North Carolina 44th 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
88.6%
1,903 votes · D+77.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 86.4%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
67.3%
6,077 votes · R+35.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 54.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
23,053votes
61.0% of the vote · D+23.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 21,904 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
14,019votes
37.1% of the vote · D+23.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 13,617 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
+67.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+42.1 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 · +62.8 pts
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
+12.4pts R vs U.S.
Place R+35.6 · U.S. R+23.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Bob Dole, 1996 · −2.7 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.
With a 2024 presidential margin of D+20.3, this district sits well outside competitive territory, suggesting a dense urban or majority-minority core that anchors the left end of North Carolina's legislative map.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 77.2 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 35.6 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 20.3 points.
A population of 82,683, a 37% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $54,925 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 45 and State House District 141.
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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