- Lead
- 41,580
- Total
- 138,431
- vs nation
- R+28.6
Michigan 17th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 36,781
- Total
- 132,871
- vs nation
- R+32.1
- Lead
- 32,723
- Total
- 114,013
- vs nation
- R+30.8
- Lead
- 16,234
- Total
- 112,056
- vs nation
- R+18.3
- Lead
- 2,668
- Total
- 119,742
- vs nation
- R+9.5
- Lead
- 22,754
- Total
- 116,939
- vs nation
- R+17.0
- Lead
- 15,778
- Total
- 101,945
- vs nation
- R+16.0
- Lead
- 4,279
- Total
- 94,534
- vs nation
- R+13.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+30.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 270,3472024 5-year
- Population density
- 111 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 2,442 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $65,4462024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 83.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 4.4%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 6.0%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+12.0 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+50.8 in 1928MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 18, MI · twin score 94.0
presidential history
Party record book
Michigan 17th 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
55.9%
46,806 votes · D+12.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 52.1%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
75.1%
37,903 votes · R+50.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 72.0%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
57,559votes
48.1% of the vote · R+2.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 47,479 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
89,059votes
64.3% of the vote · R+30.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 83,658 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
−2.7pts D vs U.S.
Place R+10.2 · U.S. R+7.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1916 · −5.4 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+41.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+48.0 · U.S. R+6.1 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Thomas E. Dewey, 1944 · +40.7 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 | R | 33.9%45,154 | 66.1%88,225 | 133,379 |
| 2020 | R | 34.3%31,553 | 65.7%60,348 | 91,901 |
Michigan's 17th Senate District backed the 2024 Republican presidential nominee by nearly 15 points, reflecting the area's largely non-urban demography and consistent rightward lean across recent election cycles.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 12.0 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 50.8 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 30.0 points.
A population of 270,347, a 83% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $65,446 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 18 and State Senate District 33.
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 17th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/26017/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.