- Lead
- 9,657
- Total
- 50,527
- vs nation
- D+20.6
North Carolina 104th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 10,875
- Total
- 51,024
- vs nation
- D+16.9
- Lead
- 4,944
- Total
- 44,169
- vs nation
- D+9.1
- Lead
- 1,249
- Total
- 42,346
- vs nation
- R+0.9
- Lead
- 1,960
- Total
- 38,462
- vs nation
- R+2.2
- Lead
- 5,066
- Total
- 31,530
- vs nation
- R+13.6
- Lead
- 5,709
- Total
- 26,028
- vs nation
- R+22.5
- Lead
- 3,334
- Total
- 21,164
- vs nation
- R+24.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+19.1MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 83,5542024 5-year
- Population density
- 3,072 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 27.2 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $121,3582024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 73.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 11.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 7.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+63.9 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+53.1 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 103, NC · twin score 94.4
presidential history
Party record book
North Carolina 104th 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
76.9%
2,067 votes · D+53.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1912 · 72.8%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
75.5%
9,035 votes · R+53.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 71.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
30,488votes
59.8% of the vote · D+21.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 29,573 votes
Republican
Mitt Romney2012
20,205votes
47.7% of the vote · D+2.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 19,916 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
+61.1pts D vs U.S.
Place D+41.4 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James M. Cox, 1920 · +61.0 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+38.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+16.3 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1968 · +35.8 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 104 sits within Charlotte's dense urban core, where a majority-minority electorate and high renter concentrations have produced double-digit Democratic presidential margins across multiple cycles.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 63.9 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 53.1 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 19.1 points.
A population of 83,554, a 73% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $121,358 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 103 and State House District 98.
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.
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