- Lead
- 7,613
- Total
- 48,860
- vs nation
- D+17.1
Indiana 10th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 11,194
- Total
- 51,462
- vs nation
- D+17.3
- Lead
- 9,006
- Total
- 51,131
- vs nation
- D+15.5
- Lead
- 11,249
- Total
- 51,238
- vs nation
- D+18.1
- Lead
- 19,162
- Total
- 56,105
- vs nation
- D+26.9
- Lead
- 8,066
- Total
- 49,258
- vs nation
- D+18.8
- Lead
- 7,985
- Total
- 44,176
- vs nation
- D+17.6
- Lead
- 10,357
- Total
- 43,318
- vs nation
- D+15.4
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+15.6MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 134,0342024 5-year
- Population density
- 689 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 195 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $60,6092024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 58.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 19.8%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 14.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+40.7 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+8.8 in 1904MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 2, MI · twin score 87.4
presidential history
Party record book
Indiana 10th 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
70.1%
35,909 votes · D+40.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 68.8%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
52.5%
4,046 votes · R+8.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 51.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
37,306votes
66.5% of the vote · D+34.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 35,909 votes
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
24,092votes
51.4% of the vote · R+3.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 21,377 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 Stevenson1956
+31.0pts D vs U.S.
Place D+15.6 · U.S. R+15.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Walter Mondale, 1984 · +30.3 pts
Republican
William H. Taft1912
−6.9pts R vs U.S.
Place D+26.5 · U.S. D+19.5 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · −10.9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | D | 51.4%28,905 | 48.6%27,345 | 56,250 |
Indiana 10th State Senate District sits in the Upper Midwest. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 40.7 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 8.8 points in 1904. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 6.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 15.6 points.
A population of 134,034, a 58% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $60,609 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 2 and State Senate District 1.
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.
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