- Lead
- 6,444
- Total
- 54,096
- vs nation
- R+10.4
North Carolina 117th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 8,702
- Total
- 52,913
- vs nation
- R+20.9
- Lead
- 11,296
- Total
- 45,009
- vs nation
- R+27.2
- Lead
- 10,108
- Total
- 40,491
- vs nation
- R+28.8
- Lead
- 7,393
- Total
- 39,973
- vs nation
- R+25.8
- Lead
- 9,227
- Total
- 33,393
- vs nation
- R+25.2
- Lead
- 9,448
- Total
- 29,790
- vs nation
- R+32.2
- Lead
- 6,023
- Total
- 25,429
- vs nation
- R+32.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+11.9MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 91,0352024 5-year
- Population density
- 366 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 249 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $67,5652024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 78.6%2024 5-year
- Black
- 2.9%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 12.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+28.5 in 1940MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+60.2 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 36, VA · twin score 86.4
presidential history
Party record book
North Carolina 117th 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
64.2%
5,072 votes · D+28.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 56.5%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
79.1%
9,194 votes · R+60.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 71.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
23,392votes
43.2% of the vote · R+11.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 21,654 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
30,356votes
57.4% of the vote · R+16.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 29,836 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
+20.4pts D vs U.S.
Place R+4.7 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 · +18.5 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+38.2pts R vs U.S.
Place R+15.7 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1960 · +37.7 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.
In 2024 it voted Republican by R+12.2, against R+18.5 in 2008. The district had about 79,000 residents, 81.5% White alone in the 2024 ACS 5-year.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 28.5 points in 1940 and a Republican high of 60.2 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.5 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 11.9 points.
A population of 91,035, a 79% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $67,565 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 36 and State House District 134.
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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