- Lead
- 16,039
- Total
- 93,609
- vs nation
- D+18.6
Michigan 2nd State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 47,805
- Total
- 99,861
- vs nation
- D+43.4
- Lead
- 40,085
- Total
- 90,465
- vs nation
- D+42.2
- Lead
- 50,808
- Total
- 94,570
- vs nation
- D+49.9
- Lead
- 58,040
- Total
- 103,295
- vs nation
- D+48.9
- Lead
- 46,917
- Total
- 99,336
- vs nation
- D+49.7
- Lead
- 41,922
- Total
- 88,332
- vs nation
- D+46.9
- Lead
- 43,594
- Total
- 85,014
- vs nation
- D+42.8
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+17.1MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 262,6192024 5-year
- Population density
- 4,872 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 53.9 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $49,3142024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 60.8%2024 5-year
- Black
- 24.6%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 8.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+58.9 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+68.2 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 10, IN · twin score 87.4
presidential history
Party record book
Michigan 2nd 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
79.4%
100,693 votes · D+58.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 77.4%
Republican
Calvin Coolidge1924
76.6%
26,801 votes · R+68.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 71.0%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
100,693votes
79.4% of the vote · D+58.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 93,614 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
47,962votes
37.3% of the vote · D+25.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 45,597 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 Obama2012
+49.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+53.7 · U.S. D+3.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John Kerry, 2004 · +49.7 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+44.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+50.4 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · +43.0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | D | 98.3%25,161 | 1.7%441 | 25,602 |
Michigan 2nd State Senate District sits in the Great Lakes. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 58.9 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 68.2 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 30.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 17.1 points.
A population of 262,619, a 61% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $49,314 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 10 and State Senate District 11.
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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