- Lead
- 58,186
- Total
- 155,613
- vs nation
- R+35.9
Michigan 25th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 50,258
- Total
- 148,667
- vs nation
- R+38.3
- Lead
- 43,394
- Total
- 126,437
- vs nation
- R+36.4
- Lead
- 13,240
- Total
- 121,419
- vs nation
- R+14.8
- Lead
- 667
- Total
- 131,928
- vs nation
- R+7.8
- Lead
- 15,663
- Total
- 131,358
- vs nation
- R+9.5
- Lead
- 8,404
- Total
- 115,200
- vs nation
- R+7.8
- Lead
- 5,717
- Total
- 103,396
- vs nation
- R+3.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+37.4MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 263,7172024 5-year
- Population density
- 90 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 2,932 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $67,1952024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 89.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 2.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 3.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+12.2 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+66.2 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 16, MI · twin score 94.5
presidential history
Party record book
Michigan 25th 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
56.0%
42,370 votes · D+12.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 48.6%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
79.5%
31,739 votes · R+61.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 79.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
64,091votes
48.6% of the vote · R+0.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John Kerry, 2004 · 57,136 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
105,805votes
68.0% of the vote · R+37.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 98,338 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
Bill Clinton1996
−3.0pts D vs U.S.
Place D+5.5 · U.S. D+8.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Grover Cleveland, 1892 · −3.5 pts
Republican
Wendell Willkie1940
+50.4pts R vs U.S.
Place R+40.5 · U.S. D+9.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Thomas E. Dewey, 1944 · +48.8 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 | R | 29.1%42,184 | 70.9%102,755 | 144,939 |
| 2020 | R | 30.6%42,406 | 69.4%96,221 | 138,627 |
Covering a stretch of largely rural and small-town west-central Michigan, this district delivered a 14-point margin in 2024, consistent with the area's long pattern of Republican-leaning statewide results.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 12.2 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 66.2 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 37.4 points.
A population of 263,717, a 89% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $67,195 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 16 and State Senate District 26.
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 25th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/26025/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.