- Lead
- 10,812
- Total
- 44,902
- vs nation
- R+22.6
North Carolina 76th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 10,417
- Total
- 44,080
- vs nation
- R+28.1
- Lead
- 9,252
- Total
- 39,380
- vs nation
- R+25.6
- Lead
- 4,586
- Total
- 39,019
- vs nation
- R+15.6
- Lead
- 3,324
- Total
- 38,700
- vs nation
- R+15.9
- Lead
- 6,849
- Total
- 31,865
- vs nation
- R+19.0
- Lead
- 4,857
- Total
- 27,325
- vs nation
- R+18.3
- Lead
- 2,582
- Total
- 24,647
- vs nation
- R+19.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+24.1MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 89,8152024 5-year
- Population density
- 358 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 251 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $63,4902024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 63.5%2024 5-year
- Black
- 20.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 10.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+61.9 in 1940MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+37.2 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 169, GA · twin score 91.5
presidential history
Party record book
North Carolina 76th 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
80.9%
9,645 votes · D+61.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 79.9%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
67.0%
11,514 votes · R+37.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 63.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
17,400votes
45.0% of the vote · R+8.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 16,857 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
27,597votes
61.5% of the vote · R+24.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 26,952 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
Alton B. Parker1904
+66.8pts D vs U.S.
Place D+47.2 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1896 · +55.2 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2020
+28.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+23.6 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · +25.6 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.
District 76 delivered a 24-point presidential margin in 2024, placing it well to the right of North Carolina's statewide average. Rural geography and stable demographic composition have made it a reliably one-sided seat in recent cycles.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 61.9 points in 1940 and a Republican high of 37.2 points in 1972. The 2024 margin was 24.1 points.
A population of 89,815, a 64% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $63,490 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 169 and State House District 110.
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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