- Lead
- 10,096
- Total
- 49,492
- vs nation
- R+18.9
Indiana 36th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 9,916
- Total
- 52,867
- vs nation
- R+23.2
- Lead
- 13,209
- Total
- 49,058
- vs nation
- R+29.0
- Lead
- 13,122
- Total
- 46,909
- vs nation
- R+31.8
- Lead
- 9,785
- Total
- 47,963
- vs nation
- R+27.7
- Lead
- 20,040
- Total
- 44,984
- vs nation
- R+42.1
- Lead
- 17,484
- Total
- 38,843
- vs nation
- R+45.5
- Lead
- 16,477
- Total
- 39,264
- vs nation
- R+50.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+20.4MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 136,6412024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,633 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 51.9 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $72,3822024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 66.5%2024 5-year
- Black
- 5.9%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 8.0%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+2.8 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+67.4 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 32, IN · twin score 89.0
presidential history
Party record book
Indiana 36th 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
Joe Biden2020
39.6%
20,927 votes · R+18.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 39.2%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
83.5%
36,863 votes · R+67.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 79.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
20,927votes
39.6% of the vote · R+18.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 19,254 votes
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
36,863votes
83.5% of the vote · R+67.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George H. W. Bush, 1988 · 34,665 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
Woodrow Wilson1912
−16.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+2.8 · U.S. D+19.5 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · −18.9 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+61.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+38.8 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1960 · +54.1 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 | 56.4%28,013 | 43.6%21,661 | 49,674 |
Indiana 36th State Senate District sits in the Upper Midwest. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 2.8 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 67.4 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 20.4 points.
A population of 136,641, a 67% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $72,382 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 32 and State Senate District 15.
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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