- Lead
- 23,380
- Total
- 86,772
- vs nation
- D+28.4
Illinois 52nd State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 24,552
- Total
- 93,645
- vs nation
- D+21.8
- Lead
- 20,288
- Total
- 91,800
- vs nation
- D+20.0
- Lead
- 14,277
- Total
- 80,624
- vs nation
- D+13.9
- Lead
- 25,081
- Total
- 88,285
- vs nation
- D+21.1
- Lead
- 12,366
- Total
- 84,912
- vs nation
- D+17.0
- Lead
- 12,555
- Total
- 77,730
- vs nation
- D+15.6
- Lead
- 15,946
- Total
- 72,390
- vs nation
- D+13.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+26.9MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 217,1652024 5-year
- Population density
- 369 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 589 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $56,2652024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 57.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 17.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 8.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+28.7 in 1932MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+27.1 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 46, IL · twin score 89.8
presidential history
Party record book
Illinois 52nd 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
Franklin D. Roosevelt1932
63.2%
33,242 votes · D+28.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 63.0%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
59.9%
20,686 votes · R+27.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 57.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
57,601votes
61.5% of the vote · D+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 55,593 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
37,893votes
50.4% of the vote · R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · 35,726 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
Kamala Harris2024
+28.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+26.9 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +21.8 pts
Republican
William H. Taft1912
+6.7pts R vs U.S.
Place D+12.9 · U.S. D+19.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Thomas E. Dewey, 1948 · +5.5 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 | 50.3%43,628 | 49.7%43,042 | 86,670 |
| 2020 | D | 52.1%50,427 | 47.9%46,273 | 96,700 |
Illinois 52nd State Senate District sits in the Upper Midwest. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 28.7 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 27.1 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 0.7 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 26.9 points.
A population of 217,165, a 57% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $56,265 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 46 and State Senate District 25.
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 52nd State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/17052/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.