- Lead
- 12,878
- Total
- 56,337
- vs nation
- R+21.4
Indiana 26th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 12,152
- Total
- 59,259
- vs nation
- R+25.0
- Lead
- 11,186
- Total
- 55,931
- vs nation
- R+22.1
- Lead
- 1,046
- Total
- 55,276
- vs nation
- R+5.7
- Lead
- 6,519
- Total
- 60,798
- vs nation
- D+3.5
- Lead
- 9,988
- Total
- 59,031
- vs nation
- R+14.5
- Lead
- 3,343
- Total
- 53,873
- vs nation
- R+6.7
- Lead
- 1,638
- Total
- 55,283
- vs nation
- R+5.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+22.9MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 136,4052024 5-year
- Population density
- 162 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 845 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $58,4542024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 84.8%2024 5-year
- Black
- 6.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 3.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+14.0 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+39.7 in 1928MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 38, IN · twin score 94.6
presidential history
Party record book
Indiana 26th 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
56.7%
35,273 votes · D+14.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 54.6%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
69.5%
27,470 votes · R+39.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James A. Garfield, 1880 · 66.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
35,273votes
56.7% of the vote · D+14.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 33,223 votes
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
41,222votes
65.6% of the vote · R+31.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 37,885 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
Barack Obama2008
+3.5pts D vs U.S.
Place D+10.7 · U.S. D+7.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Adlai Stevenson, 1956 · +1.5 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+29.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+27.3 · U.S. D+1.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · +25.0 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 | 38.6%19,715 | 61.4%31,401 | 51,116 |
Indiana 26th State Senate District sits in the Upper Midwest. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 14.0 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 39.7 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 22.9 points.
A population of 136,405, a 85% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $58,454 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 38 and State Senate District 25.
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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Indiana 26th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/18026/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.