- Lead
- 2,940
- Total
- 45,419
- vs nation
- R+5.0
North Carolina 73rd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 3,577
- Total
- 45,364
- vs nation
- R+12.3
- Lead
- 6,601
- Total
- 36,196
- vs nation
- R+20.3
- Lead
- 6,051
- Total
- 32,474
- vs nation
- R+22.5
- Lead
- 5,179
- Total
- 30,229
- vs nation
- R+24.4
- Lead
- 7,826
- Total
- 23,504
- vs nation
- R+30.8
- Lead
- 6,108
- Total
- 19,136
- vs nation
- R+32.4
- Lead
- 3,114
- Total
- 16,029
- vs nation
- R+27.9
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+6.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 90,0362024 5-year
- Population density
- 616 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 146 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $76,6602024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 57.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 20.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 15.0%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+65.0 in 1940MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+53.4 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 82, NC · twin score 88.6
presidential history
Party record book
North Carolina 73rd 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
82.5%
4,662 votes · D+65.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 82.0%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
76.1%
7,040 votes · R+53.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 71.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
20,905votes
46.0% of the vote · R+6.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 20,524 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
24,101votes
53.1% of the vote · R+7.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 23,845 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
Franklin D. Roosevelt1940
+55.1pts D vs U.S.
Place D+65.0 · U.S. D+9.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1896 · +45.8 pts
Republican
George W. Bush2000
+32.4pts R vs U.S.
Place R+31.9 · U.S. D+0.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · +30.8 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.
NC House District 73 delivered a 21.6-point Republican margin in 2024, reflecting the broader rural Piedmont pattern of consolidated GOP support that has deepened steadily over the past decade.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 65.0 points in 1940 and a Republican high of 53.4 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.4 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 6.5 points.
A population of 90,036, a 58% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $76,660 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 82 and State House District 126.
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.
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