- Lead
- 20,828
- Total
- 142,163
- vs nation
- D+16.1
Michigan 5th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 29,487
- Total
- 143,061
- vs nation
- D+16.2
- Lead
- 18,207
- Total
- 122,810
- vs nation
- D+12.7
- Lead
- 31,359
- Total
- 123,885
- vs nation
- D+21.5
- Lead
- 38,446
- Total
- 133,642
- vs nation
- D+21.5
- Lead
- 22,382
- Total
- 133,719
- vs nation
- D+19.2
- Lead
- 20,945
- Total
- 118,162
- vs nation
- D+17.2
- Lead
- 27,801
- Total
- 112,139
- vs nation
- D+16.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+14.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 260,8912024 5-year
- Population density
- 3,307 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 78.9 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $79,0362024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 62.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 19.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 4.0%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+31.5 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+78.8 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 3, MI · twin score 83.2
presidential history
Party record book
Michigan 5th 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
65.5%
107,075 votes · D+31.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 63.6%
Republican
Calvin Coolidge1924
83.3%
57,253 votes · R+78.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 81.0%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
107,075votes
65.5% of the vote · D+31.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 99,531 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
102,561votes
54.4% of the vote · R+9.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 96,982 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 Obama2008
+21.5pts D vs U.S.
Place D+28.8 · U.S. D+7.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · +21.5 pts
Republican
Calvin Coolidge1924
+53.7pts R vs U.S.
Place R+78.8 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · +51.3 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 | 68.3%79,016 | 31.7%36,699 | 115,715 |
Michigan 5th State Senate District sits in the Great Lakes. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 31.5 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 78.8 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 6.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 14.7 points.
A population of 260,891, a 62% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $79,036 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 3 and State Senate District 10.
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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