- Lead
- 40,514
- Total
- 101,711
- vs nation
- D+41.3
North Carolina 32nd State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 42,873
- Total
- 103,275
- vs nation
- D+37.1
- Lead
- 36,592
- Total
- 94,770
- vs nation
- D+36.5
- Lead
- 33,763
- Total
- 91,463
- vs nation
- D+33.1
- Lead
- 34,973
- Total
- 88,262
- vs nation
- D+32.4
- Lead
- 15,858
- Total
- 69,705
- vs nation
- D+25.2
- Lead
- 11,123
- Total
- 59,807
- vs nation
- D+18.1
- Lead
- 10,152
- Total
- 55,724
- vs nation
- D+9.7
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+39.8MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 211,7512024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,819 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 116 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $56,5082024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 42.8%2024 5-year
- Black
- 33.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 17.1%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+74.7 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+7.7 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 48, OK · twin score 93.9
presidential history
Party record book
North Carolina 32nd 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
87.3%
12,645 votes · D+74.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 · 84.8%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
52.7%
16,546 votes · R+7.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 50.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
72,248votes
70.0% of the vote · D+41.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 70,249 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
29,735votes
29.2% of the vote · D+39.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 29,375 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
John W. Davis1924
+70.1pts D vs U.S.
Place D+45.0 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James M. Cox, 1920 · +65.8 pts
Republican
Richard Nixon1968
−8.3pts R vs U.S.
Place D+7.6 · U.S. R+0.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Bob Dole, 1996 · −9.7 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.
With roughly 212,000 residents and a 39.8-point Democratic presidential margin in 2024, North Carolina SD-32 sits close enough to the center that statewide swings can quickly bring legislative contests within reach for either party.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 74.7 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 7.7 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 39.8 points.
A population of 211,751, a 43% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $56,508 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 48 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.
District research tools
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