- Lead
- 25,341
- Total
- 55,582
- vs nation
- R+44.1
North Carolina 97th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 23,067
- Total
- 50,217
- vs nation
- R+50.4
- Lead
- 18,909
- Total
- 40,023
- vs nation
- R+49.3
- Lead
- 14,243
- Total
- 36,775
- vs nation
- R+42.6
- Lead
- 11,918
- Total
- 35,798
- vs nation
- R+40.6
- Lead
- 10,618
- Total
- 29,579
- vs nation
- R+33.4
- Lead
- 7,539
- Total
- 24,529
- vs nation
- R+31.3
- Lead
- 3,718
- Total
- 20,850
- vs nation
- R+26.4
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+45.6MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 86,8102024 5-year
- Population density
- 293 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 296 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $80,0162024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 82.5%2024 5-year
- Black
- 5.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 7.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+51.1 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+47.2 in 2016MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 77, NC · twin score 98.4
presidential history
Party record book
North Carolina 97th 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
64.0%
1,130 votes · D+27.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 · 61.3%
Republican
Donald Trump2020
72.4%
36,341 votes · R+45.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 72.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
14,842votes
26.7% of the vote · R+45.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 13,274 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
40,183votes
72.3% of the vote · R+45.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 36,341 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
+33.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+13.9 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1912 · +31.5 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2020
+50.4pts R vs U.S.
Place R+45.9 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · +49.3 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.
North Carolina 97th State House District sits in the Carolinas. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 51.1 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 47.2 points in 2016. The 2024 margin was 45.6 points.
A population of 86,810, a 83% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $80,016 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 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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