- Lead
- 24,867
- Total
- 69,480
- vs nation
- R+34.3
Indiana 6th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 20,932
- Total
- 67,475
- vs nation
- R+35.5
- Lead
- 16,238
- Total
- 56,567
- vs nation
- R+30.8
- Lead
- 8,660
- Total
- 53,607
- vs nation
- R+20.0
- Lead
- 5,925
- Total
- 54,740
- vs nation
- R+18.1
- Lead
- 13,224
- Total
- 52,322
- vs nation
- R+22.8
- Lead
- 9,742
- Total
- 48,296
- vs nation
- R+20.7
- Lead
- 3,589
- Total
- 44,404
- vs nation
- R+16.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+35.8MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 136,1912024 5-year
- Population density
- 100 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 1,359 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $88,2252024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 83.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 2.6%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 9.1%2024 5-year
- Peak Republican margin
- R+50.8 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 27, PA · twin score 90.4
presidential history
Party record book
Indiana 6th 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. Roosevelt1936
46.2%
15,900 votes · R+6.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 44.6%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
75.2%
45,095 votes · R+50.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 72.0%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
24,161votes
44.6% of the vote · R+10.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 24,112 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
46,630votes
67.1% of the vote · R+35.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 45,095 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
Alton B. Parker1904
−12.3pts D vs U.S.
Place R+32.0 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1896 · −14.4 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2020
+35.5pts R vs U.S.
Place R+31.0 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · +34.3 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Indiana 6th State Senate District sits in the Upper Midwest. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Republican high of 50.8 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 35.8 points.
A population of 136,191, a 83% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $88,225 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 5.
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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