- Lead
- 50,982
- Total
- 140,891
- vs nation
- D+37.7
Michigan 6th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 55,625
- Total
- 143,985
- vs nation
- D+34.2
- Lead
- 44,464
- Total
- 129,879
- vs nation
- D+32.1
- Lead
- 56,228
- Total
- 133,462
- vs nation
- D+38.3
- Lead
- 65,549
- Total
- 143,493
- vs nation
- D+38.4
- Lead
- 48,936
- Total
- 138,384
- vs nation
- D+37.8
- Lead
- 44,074
- Total
- 123,660
- vs nation
- D+35.1
- Lead
- 46,560
- Total
- 116,026
- vs nation
- D+31.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+36.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 260,0912024 5-year
- Population density
- 3,505 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 74.2 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $73,3662024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 45.7%2024 5-year
- Black
- 41.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 3.0%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+51.6 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+71.0 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 8, MI · twin score 96.3
presidential history
Party record book
Michigan 6th 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
75.7%
115,780 votes · D+51.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 72.1%
Republican
Calvin Coolidge1924
78.5%
34,529 votes · R+71.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 73.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
115,780votes
75.7% of the vote · D+51.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 105,901 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
65,742votes
42.1% of the vote · D+15.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 63,410 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
+38.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+45.7 · U.S. D+7.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · +38.3 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+46.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+52.1 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · +45.8 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 | 64.7%79,576 | 35.3%43,510 | 123,086 |
Michigan 6th State Senate District sits in the Great Lakes. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 51.6 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 71.0 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 36.2 points.
A population of 260,091, a 46% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $73,366 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 8 and State Senate District 21.
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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