- Lead
- 16,784
- Total
- 113,431
- vs nation
- R+13.3
North Carolina 1st State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 9,875
- Total
- 112,059
- vs nation
- R+13.3
- Lead
- 6,232
- Total
- 97,895
- vs nation
- R+8.5
- Lead
- 5,218
- Total
- 97,717
- vs nation
- D+1.5
- Lead
- 5,778
- Total
- 97,013
- vs nation
- R+1.3
- Lead
- 1,512
- Total
- 77,537
- vs nation
- D+0.5
- Lead
- 5,808
- Total
- 66,066
- vs nation
- D+8.3
- Lead
- 11,426
- Total
- 56,742
- vs nation
- D+11.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+14.8MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 199,6232024 5-year
- Population density
- 54 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 3,680 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $69,5512024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 61.6%2024 5-year
- Black
- 28.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 4.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+82.3 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+20.2 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 2, NC · twin score 89.4
presidential history
Party record book
North Carolina 1st 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
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
91.1%
20,691 votes · D+82.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 90.7%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
59.3%
20,283 votes · R+20.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 56.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
50,996votes
52.6% of the vote · D+6.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 50,897 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
64,459votes
56.8% of the vote · R+14.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 60,276 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
James M. Cox1920
+82.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+56.5 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John W. Davis, 1924 · +82.4 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2024
+13.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+14.8 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · +13.3 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.
North Carolina's 1st State Senate District stretches across the northeastern coastal plain, a region where rural demographics and a modest but consistent Republican lean have defined recent federal contest results.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 82.3 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 20.2 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 6.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 14.8 points.
A population of 199,623, a 62% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $69,551 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 2 and State Senate District 9.
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.
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