- Lead
- 30,984
- Total
- 47,853
- vs nation
- D+66.2
Indiana 33rd State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 36,648
- Total
- 53,930
- vs nation
- D+63.5
- Lead
- 34,443
- Total
- 52,351
- vs nation
- D+63.7
- Lead
- 35,004
- Total
- 51,318
- vs nation
- D+64.4
- Lead
- 40,126
- Total
- 55,833
- vs nation
- D+64.6
- Lead
- 23,076
- Total
- 41,206
- vs nation
- D+58.5
- Lead
- 18,628
- Total
- 34,952
- vs nation
- D+52.8
- Lead
- 17,017
- Total
- 35,145
- vs nation
- D+39.9
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+64.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 135,6032024 5-year
- Population density
- 3,809 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 35.6 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $62,8562024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 35.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 40.4%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 17.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+71.9 in 2008MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 34, IN · twin score 97.6
presidential history
Party record book
Indiana 33rd 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
Barack Obama2008
85.5%
47,722 votes · D+71.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 83.3%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
37.0%
11,942 votes · D+25.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 32.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
47,722votes
85.5% of the vote · D+71.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 44,850 votes
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
11,942votes
37.0% of the vote · D+25.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 10,500 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
+69.1pts D vs U.S.
Place D+42.9 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · +66.2 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
−34.7pts R vs U.S.
Place D+57.3 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George H. W. Bush, 1992 · −34.8 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 | 63.4%30,110 | 36.6%17,405 | 47,515 |
Indiana 33rd State Senate District sits in the Upper Midwest. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 71.9 points in 2008. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 64.7 points.
A population of 135,603, a 35% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $62,856 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 34 and State Senate District 43.
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 33rd State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/18033/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.