- Lead
- 24,794
- Total
- 133,834
- vs nation
- D+20.0
Michigan 27th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 32,325
- Total
- 134,874
- vs nation
- D+19.5
- Lead
- 29,288
- Total
- 122,263
- vs nation
- D+21.9
- Lead
- 54,169
- Total
- 130,225
- vs nation
- D+37.7
- Lead
- 64,391
- Total
- 141,903
- vs nation
- D+38.1
- Lead
- 47,560
- Total
- 135,077
- vs nation
- D+37.7
- Lead
- 50,362
- Total
- 122,147
- vs nation
- D+40.7
- Lead
- 49,531
- Total
- 111,179
- vs nation
- D+36.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+18.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 259,8772024 5-year
- Population density
- 909 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 286 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $56,2322024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 59.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 28.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 4.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+51.3 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+66.7 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 10, MI · twin score 91.4
presidential history
Party record book
Michigan 27th 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
73.8%
71,055 votes · D+47.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 73.8%
Republican
Calvin Coolidge1924
80.5%
17,597 votes · R+66.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 73.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
101,868votes
71.8% of the vote · D+45.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 91,318 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
53,464votes
39.9% of the vote · D+18.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 50,326 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
Michael Dukakis1988
+41.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+33.7 · U.S. R+7.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Al Gore, 2000 · +40.7 pts
Republican
Calvin Coolidge1924
+41.5pts R vs U.S.
Place R+66.7 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · +38.7 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 | D | 56.3%75,640 | 43.7%58,740 | 134,380 |
| 2020 | D | 59.8%80,687 | 40.2%54,265 | 134,952 |
Michigan 27th State Senate District sits in the Great Lakes. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 51.3 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 66.7 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 5.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 18.5 points.
A population of 259,877, a 60% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $56,232 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 10 and State Senate District 3.
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 27th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/26027/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.