- Lead
- 12,003
- Total
- 67,592
- vs nation
- D+19.2
Illinois 22nd State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 23,192
- Total
- 75,625
- vs nation
- D+26.2
- Lead
- 21,853
- Total
- 67,520
- vs nation
- D+30.3
- Lead
- 16,081
- Total
- 62,443
- vs nation
- D+21.9
- Lead
- 21,208
- Total
- 66,361
- vs nation
- D+24.7
- Lead
- 9,458
- Total
- 62,719
- vs nation
- D+17.5
- Lead
- 7,813
- Total
- 55,842
- vs nation
- D+13.5
- Lead
- 7,954
- Total
- 50,977
- vs nation
- D+7.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+17.8MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 217,1312024 5-year
- Population density
- 4,386 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 49.5 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $87,3602024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 34.8%2024 5-year
- Black
- 6.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 43.3%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+32.4 in 2016MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+66.1 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 11, IL · twin score 94.4
presidential history
Party record book
Illinois 22nd 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
65.2%
43,256 votes · D+32.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 64.3%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
80.4%
23,875 votes · R+66.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 70.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
48,658votes
64.3% of the vote · D+30.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 43,256 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
48,499votes
69.9% of the vote · R+39.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 46,820 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
+30.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+32.4 · U.S. D+2.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +26.2 pts
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
+39.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+66.1 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Charles E. Hughes, 1916 · +34.3 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
The district recorded a Democratic presidential margin of D+17.8 in 2024, compared with D+32.0 in 2008. No racial group formed a majority of its residents in the 2024 ACS 5-year, with White residents at 44.6%.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 32.4 points in 2016 and a Republican high of 66.1 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 12.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 17.8 points.
A population of 217,131, a 35% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $87,360 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 11 and State Senate District 1.
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 22nd State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/17022/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.