- Lead
- 13,797
- Total
- 147,682
- vs nation
- D+10.8
Michigan 28th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 15,584
- Total
- 140,356
- vs nation
- D+6.6
- Lead
- 9,439
- Total
- 127,852
- vs nation
- D+5.3
- Lead
- 19,653
- Total
- 124,628
- vs nation
- D+11.9
- Lead
- 29,670
- Total
- 134,866
- vs nation
- D+14.7
- Lead
- 6,745
- Total
- 127,254
- vs nation
- D+7.8
- Lead
- 9,802
- Total
- 112,636
- vs nation
- D+8.2
- Lead
- 14,558
- Total
- 105,501
- vs nation
- D+5.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+9.3MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 261,2142024 5-year
- Population density
- 237 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 1,103 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $73,9052024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 79.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 4.6%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 5.1%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+29.3 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+60.1 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 21, MI · twin score 88.0
presidential history
Party record book
Michigan 28th 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
64.5%
46,343 votes · D+29.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 60.2%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
76.5%
26,075 votes · R+53.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 75.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
81,125votes
60.2% of the vote · D+22.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 79,429 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
65,632votes
44.4% of the vote · D+9.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 61,187 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
+14.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+22.0 · U.S. D+7.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · +11.9 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+41.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+47.2 · U.S. R+6.1 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · +36.0 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 | 50.8%71,526 | 49.2%69,214 | 140,740 |
Michigan 28th State Senate District sits in the Great Lakes. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 29.3 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 60.1 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 9.3 points.
A population of 261,214, a 80% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $73,905 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 21 and State Senate District 19.
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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