- Lead
- 25,550
- Total
- 52,067
- vs nation
- R+47.6
North Carolina 89th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 23,465
- Total
- 47,554
- vs nation
- R+53.8
- Lead
- 19,849
- Total
- 40,602
- vs nation
- R+51.0
- Lead
- 16,263
- Total
- 38,221
- vs nation
- R+46.4
- Lead
- 14,400
- Total
- 37,686
- vs nation
- R+45.5
- Lead
- 15,247
- Total
- 31,990
- vs nation
- R+45.2
- Lead
- 12,964
- Total
- 27,172
- vs nation
- R+48.2
- Lead
- 8,778
- Total
- 23,785
- vs nation
- R+45.4
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+49.1MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 85,5772024 5-year
- Population density
- 254 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 338 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $73,1772024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 79.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 6.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 7.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+42.7 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+61.4 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 77, NC · twin score 97.9
presidential history
Party record book
North Carolina 89th 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
69.9%
834 votes · D+39.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Grover Cleveland, 1884 · 65.6%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
79.9%
13,630 votes · R+61.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 78.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
12,985votes
24.9% of the vote · R+49.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 11,749 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
38,535votes
74.0% of the vote · R+49.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 35,214 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
William J. Bryan1896
+30.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+24.2 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1912 · +23.2 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2020
+53.8pts R vs U.S.
Place R+49.3 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · +51.0 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.
Carrying a 14.5-point Republican margin in 2024, District 89 reflects the broader rural Piedmont pattern of low population density and consistent right-leaning presidential returns across recent cycles.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 42.7 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 61.4 points in 1972. The 2024 margin was 49.1 points.
A population of 85,577, a 79% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $73,177 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 77 and State House District 97.
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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North Carolina 89th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/37089/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.