- Lead
- 24,834
- Total
- 42,056
- vs nation
- D+60.5
Indiana 34th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 30,912
- Total
- 49,183
- vs nation
- D+58.4
- Lead
- 29,464
- Total
- 48,882
- vs nation
- D+58.2
- Lead
- 29,833
- Total
- 48,449
- vs nation
- D+57.7
- Lead
- 34,531
- Total
- 52,576
- vs nation
- D+58.4
- Lead
- 18,809
- Total
- 39,617
- vs nation
- D+49.9
- Lead
- 14,906
- Total
- 33,588
- vs nation
- D+43.9
- Lead
- 13,500
- Total
- 33,269
- vs nation
- D+32.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+59.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 138,4112024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,902 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 47.7 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $51,8772024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 22.8%2024 5-year
- Black
- 54.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 17.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+65.7 in 2008MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 9, MO · twin score 98.4
presidential history
Party record book
Indiana 34th 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
82.6%
43,433 votes · D+65.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 80.7%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
42.8%
13,838 votes · D+14.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 37.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
43,433votes
82.6% of the vote · D+65.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 39,697 votes
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
13,838votes
42.8% of the vote · D+14.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 12,235 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
Kamala Harris2024
+60.5pts D vs U.S.
Place D+59.0 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James M. Cox, 1920 · +59.6 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
−25.8pts R vs U.S.
Place D+48.4 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George H. W. Bush, 1992 · −28.8 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
With a D+59.0 presidential margin in a reliably Republican state, Indiana SD-34 stands out as a competitive outlier — its urban or suburban composition likely driving the divergence from statewide trends.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 65.7 points in 2008. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 59.0 points.
A population of 138,411, a 23% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $51,877 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 9 and State Senate District 40.
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 34th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/18034/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.