- Lead
- 28,473
- Total
- 53,516
- vs nation
- R+51.7
North Carolina 77th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 26,645
- Total
- 51,252
- vs nation
- R+56.4
- Lead
- 23,589
- Total
- 44,625
- vs nation
- R+55.0
- Lead
- 19,551
- Total
- 42,437
- vs nation
- R+49.9
- Lead
- 17,477
- Total
- 42,412
- vs nation
- R+48.5
- Lead
- 18,522
- Total
- 36,210
- vs nation
- R+48.7
- Lead
- 15,460
- Total
- 31,242
- vs nation
- R+50.0
- Lead
- 11,275
- Total
- 28,006
- vs nation
- R+48.8
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+53.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 90,6282024 5-year
- Population density
- 123 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 738 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $69,1532024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 80.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 5.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 9.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+4.1 in 1876MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+58.1 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 97, NC · twin score 98.4
presidential history
Party record book
North Carolina 77th 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
Samuel J. Tilden1876
52.1%
2,063 votes · D+4.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 · 51.5%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
77.9%
7,551 votes · R+55.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 77.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
12,249votes
28.9% of the vote · R+41.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 12,151 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
40,624votes
75.9% of the vote · R+53.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 38,612 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
−0.1pts D vs U.S.
Place R+25.2 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James M. Cox, 1920 · −3.9 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2020
+56.4pts R vs U.S.
Place R+52.0 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · +55.0 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 roughly 90,000 residents, this North Carolina House district recorded a 53.2-point Republican presidential margin in 2024, placing it in moderately competitive-to-safe Republican territory within a closely divided state.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 4.1 points in 1876 and a Republican high of 58.1 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 53.2 points.
A population of 90,628, a 81% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $69,153 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 97 and State House District 89.
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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