- Lead
- 11,289
- Total
- 44,684
- vs nation
- D+26.7
Indiana 2nd State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 17,366
- Total
- 49,592
- vs nation
- D+30.6
- Lead
- 18,678
- Total
- 49,190
- vs nation
- D+35.9
- Lead
- 24,011
- Total
- 49,865
- vs nation
- D+44.3
- Lead
- 26,357
- Total
- 51,988
- vs nation
- D+43.4
- Lead
- 18,522
- Total
- 45,885
- vs nation
- D+42.8
- Lead
- 18,684
- Total
- 42,599
- vs nation
- D+43.3
- Lead
- 18,988
- Total
- 41,317
- vs nation
- D+37.4
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+25.3MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 134,2012024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,868 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 46.8 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $58,9922024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 33.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 24.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 38.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+50.7 in 2008MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+32.1 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 4, NV · twin score 92.9
presidential history
Party record book
Indiana 2nd 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
74.8%
38,881 votes · D+50.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 73.9%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
56.0%
4,905 votes · R+32.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 53.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
38,881votes
74.8% of the vote · D+50.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 37,761 votes
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
21,241votes
45.7% of the vote · D+7.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1980 · 17,686 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
Walter Mondale1984
+48.1pts D vs U.S.
Place D+29.9 · U.S. R+18.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · +44.3 pts
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
+5.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+32.1 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William H. Taft, 1912 · +5.8 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Indiana 2nd State Senate District sits in the Upper Midwest. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 50.7 points in 2008 and a Republican high of 32.1 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 9.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 25.3 points.
A population of 134,201, a 33% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $58,992 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 4 and State Senate District 2.
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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