- Lead
- 52,783
- Total
- 79,387
- vs nation
- D+68.0
Illinois 5th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 69,263
- Total
- 92,354
- vs nation
- D+70.5
- Lead
- 70,979
- Total
- 90,700
- vs nation
- D+76.2
- Lead
- 64,341
- Total
- 81,997
- vs nation
- D+74.6
- Lead
- 71,565
- Total
- 88,542
- vs nation
- D+73.6
- Lead
- 60,316
- Total
- 80,501
- vs nation
- D+77.4
- Lead
- 53,579
- Total
- 73,238
- vs nation
- D+72.6
- Lead
- 48,523
- Total
- 68,300
- vs nation
- D+62.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+66.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 217,3342024 5-year
- Population density
- 12,279 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 17.7 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $92,0982024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 33.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 43.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 11.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+80.8 in 2008MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+3.7 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 3, IL · twin score 98.4
presidential history
Party record book
Illinois 5th State Senate 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
Barack Obama2008
89.9%
79,634 votes · D+80.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 88.5%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
46.3%
10,441 votes · R+3.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 38.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
79,905votes
86.5% of the vote · D+75.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 79,634 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
21,682votes
31.3% of the vote · D+37.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 20,687 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 Kerry2004
+77.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+74.9 · U.S. R+2.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · +76.2 pts
Republican
William H. Taft1912
−12.2pts R vs U.S.
Place D+31.7 · U.S. D+19.5 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · −22.5 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.
| Year | Vote lead | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | D | 73.1%60,959 | 26.9%22,395 | 83,354 |
Illinois 5th State Senate District sits in the Upper Midwest. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 80.8 points in 2008 and a Republican high of 3.7 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 8.5 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 66.5 points.
A population of 217,334, a 34% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $92,098 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 3 and State Senate District 13.
The state-senate 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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