- Lead
- 31,336
- Total
- 51,643
- vs nation
- D+62.2
North Carolina 116th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 31,531
- Total
- 53,851
- vs nation
- D+54.1
- Lead
- 25,226
- Total
- 48,027
- vs nation
- D+50.4
- Lead
- 23,087
- Total
- 43,713
- vs nation
- D+49.0
- Lead
- 23,035
- Total
- 42,662
- vs nation
- D+46.7
- Lead
- 14,749
- Total
- 33,936
- vs nation
- D+45.9
- Lead
- 9,744
- Total
- 26,700
- vs nation
- D+36.0
- Lead
- 9,254
- Total
- 22,863
- vs nation
- D+32.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+60.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 89,4572024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,632 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 54.8 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $69,5282024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 74.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 10.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 8.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+75.7 in 1940MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 41, KY · twin score 90.8
presidential history
Party record book
North Carolina 116th 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
87.9%
11,598 votes · D+75.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 86.5%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
47.9%
5,795 votes · D+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 38.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
42,196votes
78.4% of the vote · D+58.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 40,954 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
10,665votes
19.8% of the vote · D+58.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · 9,988 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
+84.8pts D vs U.S.
Place D+59.6 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James M. Cox, 1920 · +81.0 pts
Republican
Richard Nixon1968
−20.8pts R vs U.S.
Place D+20.1 · U.S. R+0.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · −24.6 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.
Anchored in urban Charlotte, this district delivered a 22-point Democratic margin in 2024, reflecting the dense, diverse residential core that has defined its voting pattern across recent cycles.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 75.7 points in 1940. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.1 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 60.7 points.
A population of 89,457, a 74% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $69,528 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 41 and State House District 41.
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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