- Lead
- 34,075
- Total
- 90,714
- vs nation
- D+39.0
Illinois 14th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 50,532
- Total
- 104,870
- vs nation
- D+43.7
- Lead
- 54,487
- Total
- 104,702
- vs nation
- D+50.0
- Lead
- 46,611
- Total
- 97,705
- vs nation
- D+43.9
- Lead
- 53,678
- Total
- 103,621
- vs nation
- D+44.5
- Lead
- 39,308
- Total
- 99,688
- vs nation
- D+41.9
- Lead
- 34,770
- Total
- 89,303
- vs nation
- D+38.4
- Lead
- 32,092
- Total
- 82,399
- vs nation
- D+30.4
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+37.6MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 217,1622024 5-year
- Population density
- 3,885 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 55.9 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $71,1032024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 34.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 48.4%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 12.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+52.0 in 2016MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+50.9 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 16, IL · twin score 97.5
presidential history
Party record book
Illinois 14th 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
75.7%
78,425 votes · D+51.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 74.2%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
73.1%
31,136 votes · R+50.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 65.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
78,425votes
75.7% of the vote · D+51.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 77,664 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
64,312votes
57.9% of the vote · R+15.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 61,326 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
Hillary Clinton2016
+50.0pts D vs U.S.
Place D+52.0 · U.S. D+2.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · +44.5 pts
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
+24.7pts R vs U.S.
Place R+50.9 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · +19.3 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.
| Year | Vote lead | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | D | 72.7%60,771 | 27.3%22,767 | 83,538 |
Illinois 14th State Senate District sits in the Upper Midwest. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 52.0 points in 2016 and a Republican high of 50.9 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 10.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 37.6 points.
A population of 217,162, a 34% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $71,103 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 16 and State Senate District 15.
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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Illinois 14th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/17014/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.