- Lead
- 3,996
- Total
- 53,681
- vs nation
- R+6.0
North Carolina 74th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 5,128
- Total
- 51,343
- vs nation
- R+14.4
- Lead
- 8,104
- Total
- 43,549
- vs nation
- R+20.7
- Lead
- 9,745
- Total
- 42,871
- vs nation
- R+26.6
- Lead
- 7,881
- Total
- 40,379
- vs nation
- R+26.8
- Lead
- 13,335
- Total
- 35,771
- vs nation
- R+34.8
- Lead
- 12,750
- Total
- 31,429
- vs nation
- R+41.1
- Lead
- 11,033
- Total
- 29,137
- vs nation
- R+46.4
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+7.4MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 83,5452024 5-year
- Population density
- 644 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 130 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $93,2692024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 74.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 9.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 7.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+31.0 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+59.7 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 83, TN · twin score 93.0
presidential history
Party record book
North Carolina 74th 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
65.5%
3,296 votes · D+31.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 · 60.8%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
79.0%
15,078 votes · R+59.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 78.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
24,380votes
45.4% of the vote · R+7.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 22,671 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
28,376votes
52.9% of the vote · R+7.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 27,799 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
+11.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+21.5 · U.S. D+9.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John W. Davis, 1924 · +10.0 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+50.6pts R vs U.S.
Place R+28.0 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Bob Dole, 1996 · +46.4 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.
With a 2024 presidential margin of just 0.4 points, this 83,000-resident district sits at the precise center of North Carolina's partisan divide, making it a reliable bellwether for statewide shifts in either direction.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 31.0 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 59.7 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.5 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 7.4 points.
A population of 83,545, a 74% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $93,269 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 39.
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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