- Lead
- 10,494
- Total
- 98,461
- vs nation
- D+12.1
Illinois 57th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 13,033
- Total
- 108,061
- vs nation
- D+7.6
- Lead
- 10,452
- Total
- 103,291
- vs nation
- D+8.0
- Lead
- 19,425
- Total
- 102,642
- vs nation
- D+15.1
- Lead
- 29,231
- Total
- 108,441
- vs nation
- D+19.7
- Lead
- 15,306
- Total
- 97,008
- vs nation
- D+18.2
- Lead
- 15,969
- Total
- 85,705
- vs nation
- D+18.1
- Lead
- 21,078
- Total
- 81,152
- vs nation
- D+17.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+10.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 216,8582024 5-year
- Population density
- 426 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 510 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $70,9932024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 55.8%2024 5-year
- Black
- 33.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 4.3%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+48.7 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+14.0 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 27, MI · twin score 87.8
presidential history
Party record book
Illinois 57th 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
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
74.3%
65,980 votes · D+48.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 67.1%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
53.1%
9,621 votes · R+12.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 49.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
68,017votes
62.7% of the vote · D+27.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 65,980 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
45,882votes
42.5% of the vote · D+12.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · 43,568 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
Adlai Stevenson1952
+35.8pts D vs U.S.
Place D+25.0 · U.S. R+10.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Adlai Stevenson, 1956 · +33.9 pts
Republican
William H. Taft1912
+5.8pts R vs U.S.
Place D+13.7 · U.S. D+19.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Charles E. Hughes, 1916 · −2.4 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 | 52.9%53,841 | 47.1%47,932 | 101,773 |
| 2020 | D | 50.2%53,433 | 49.8%52,999 | 106,432 |
Anchored in rural downstate Illinois, this district backed the 2024 Republican presidential candidate by nearly 24 points, reflecting a regional pattern of consolidating GOP margins well outside the Chicago metropolitan area.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 48.7 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 14.0 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 10.7 points.
A population of 216,858, a 56% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $70,993 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 27 and State Senate District 33.
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 57th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/17057/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.