- Lead
- 18,030
- Total
- 66,839
- vs nation
- R+25.5
Indiana 5th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 15,442
- Total
- 66,837
- vs nation
- R+27.6
- Lead
- 13,706
- Total
- 59,993
- vs nation
- R+24.9
- Lead
- 5,643
- Total
- 57,152
- vs nation
- R+13.7
- Lead
- 2,221
- Total
- 58,880
- vs nation
- R+11.0
- Lead
- 11,996
- Total
- 53,308
- vs nation
- R+20.0
- Lead
- 9,161
- Total
- 49,301
- vs nation
- R+19.1
- Lead
- 3,368
- Total
- 46,205
- vs nation
- R+15.8
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+27.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 133,8532024 5-year
- Population density
- 90 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 1,489 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $82,1532024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 85.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 7.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+10.5 in 1932MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+49.6 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 27, PA · twin score 89.5
presidential history
Party record book
Indiana 5th 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
54.3%
12,084 votes · D+10.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 49.8%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
74.5%
28,385 votes · R+49.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 69.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
27,841votes
47.3% of the vote · R+3.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 25,111 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
41,805votes
62.5% of the vote · R+27.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 40,553 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
William J. Bryan1896
+6.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+0.7 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1908 · +4.2 pts
Republican
Ronald Reagan1980
+28.2pts R vs U.S.
Place R+37.9 · U.S. R+9.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Thomas E. Dewey, 1944 · +28.1 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 | R | 48.3%19,858 | 51.7%21,227 | 41,085 |
| 2020 | R | 44.4%22,708 | 55.6%28,471 | 51,179 |
Its Republican presidential margin was R+27.0 in 2024 and R+3.8 in 2008. About 167,000 residents lived here, with White alone at 85.2% in the 2024 ACS 5-year.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 10.5 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 49.6 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 27.0 points.
A population of 133,853, a 85% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $82,153 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 8.
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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