- Lead
- 60,825
- Total
- 140,852
- vs nation
- D+44.7
Michigan 7th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 69,562
- Total
- 143,728
- vs nation
- D+43.9
- Lead
- 60,902
- Total
- 129,770
- vs nation
- D+44.8
- Lead
- 63,338
- Total
- 130,052
- vs nation
- D+44.8
- Lead
- 72,213
- Total
- 135,468
- vs nation
- D+46.0
- Lead
- 54,115
- Total
- 125,066
- vs nation
- D+45.7
- Lead
- 47,867
- Total
- 111,617
- vs nation
- D+42.4
- Lead
- 44,046
- Total
- 98,345
- vs nation
- D+36.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+43.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 262,0852024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,389 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 110 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $69,9092024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 38.5%2024 5-year
- Black
- 45.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 7.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+67.5 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+32.7 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 8, MI · twin score 96.0
presidential history
Party record book
Michigan 7th 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
82.7%
61,703 votes · D+65.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 82.7%
Republican
Calvin Coolidge1924
62.3%
3,258 votes · R+32.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 46.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
105,922votes
73.7% of the vote · D+48.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 103,292 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
38,555votes
27.4% of the vote · D+43.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 36,360 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
William J. Bryan1900
+57.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+50.2 · U.S. R+7.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Alton B. Parker, 1904 · +55.6 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+25.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+32.0 · U.S. R+6.1 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · +7.5 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%82,497 | 43.6%63,765 | 146,262 |
| 2020 | D | 58.3%82,683 | 41.7%59,201 | 141,884 |
Michigan 7th State Senate District sits in the Great Lakes. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 67.5 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 32.7 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 5.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 43.2 points.
A population of 262,085, a 39% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $69,909 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 14.
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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Michigan 7th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/26007/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.