- Lead
- 9,213
- Total
- 64,278
- vs nation
- D+15.8
Indiana 29th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 10,229
- Total
- 68,295
- vs nation
- D+10.5
- Lead
- 2,652
- Total
- 59,893
- vs nation
- D+2.3
- Lead
- 789
- Total
- 54,657
- vs nation
- R+5.3
- Lead
- 4,976
- Total
- 55,179
- vs nation
- D+1.7
- Lead
- 8,055
- Total
- 45,322
- vs nation
- R+15.3
- Lead
- 6,615
- Total
- 36,575
- vs nation
- R+18.6
- Lead
- 5,439
- Total
- 34,871
- vs nation
- R+24.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+14.3MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 137,8272024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,723 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 80 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $102,3942024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 60.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 18.9%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 8.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+29.1 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+37.3 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 40, GA · twin score 89.0
presidential history
Party record book
Indiana 29th 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
57.5%
12,914 votes · D+16.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 56.5%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
68.4%
20,903 votes · R+37.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George H. W. Bush, 1988 · 63.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
38,615votes
56.5% of the vote · D+15.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 36,094 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
28,386votes
41.6% of the vote · D+15.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Mitt Romney, 2012 · 27,168 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
James M. Cox1920
+20.1pts D vs U.S.
Place R+6.0 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · +15.8 pts
Republican
Bob Dole1996
+24.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+15.6 · U.S. D+8.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George H. W. Bush, 1992 · +20.4 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 | D | 53.7%25,267 | 46.3%21,748 | 47,015 |
Indiana 29th State Senate District sits in the Upper Midwest. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 29.1 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 37.3 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 0.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 14.3 points.
A population of 137,827, a 60% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $102,394 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 40 and State Senate District 14.
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 29th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/18029/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.