- Lead
- 3,424
- Total
- 56,709
- vs nation
- R+4.6
North Carolina 62nd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 3,761
- Total
- 53,997
- vs nation
- R+11.4
- Lead
- 6,957
- Total
- 46,619
- vs nation
- R+17.0
- Lead
- 9,080
- Total
- 46,546
- vs nation
- R+23.4
- Lead
- 7,697
- Total
- 43,949
- vs nation
- R+24.8
- Lead
- 13,225
- Total
- 38,669
- vs nation
- R+31.7
- Lead
- 11,913
- Total
- 32,575
- vs nation
- R+37.1
- Lead
- 9,105
- Total
- 28,666
- vs nation
- R+40.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+6.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 89,6372024 5-year
- Population density
- 573 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 157 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $96,0612024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 67.7%2024 5-year
- Black
- 13.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 6.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+26.4 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+65.5 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 83, TN · twin score 92.2
presidential history
Party record book
North Carolina 62nd 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
56.3%
3,236 votes · D+12.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 · 56.2%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
82.0%
16,108 votes · R+65.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 77.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
26,172votes
46.2% of the vote · R+6.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 24,715 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
29,596votes
52.2% of the vote · R+6.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 28,476 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
Woodrow Wilson1912
+6.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+26.4 · U.S. D+19.5 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 · +2.5 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+52.5pts R vs U.S.
Place R+29.9 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1960 · +48.2 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.
The 2024 presidential margin was R+6.0, one of the narrower results among North Carolina's state house districts, compared with R+17.5 in 2008. No racial group formed a majority of its residents in the 2024 ACS 5-year, with White residents at 47.6%.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 26.4 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 65.5 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 0.9 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 6.0 points.
A population of 89,637, a 68% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $96,061 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 83 and State House District 59.
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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