- Lead
- 145,805
- Total
- 400,939
- vs nation
- R+34.9
Minnesota 7th Congressional District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 131,423
- Total
- 396,564
- vs nation
- R+37.6
- Lead
- 123,716
- Total
- 364,178
- vs nation
- R+36.1
- Lead
- 49,263
- Total
- 358,118
- vs nation
- R+17.6
- Lead
- 26,735
- Total
- 366,282
- vs nation
- R+14.6
- Lead
- 58,411
- Total
- 367,424
- vs nation
- R+13.4
- Lead
- 52,873
- Total
- 328,711
- vs nation
- R+16.6
- Lead
- 11,870
- Total
- 308,881
- vs nation
- R+4.7
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+36.4MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 712,8692024 5-year
- Population density
- 23 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 31,039 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $74,3832024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 88.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.6%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 5.3%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+36.0 in 1932MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+60.0 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Congressional District 1, MN · twin score 91.2
presidential history
Party record book
Minnesota 7th Congressional 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. Roosevelt1932
66.5%
153,626 votes · D+36.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 61.3%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
76.4%
66,146 votes · R+59.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 75.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Jimmy Carter1976
177,687votes
53.8% of the vote · D+10.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 175,937 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
269,447votes
67.2% of the vote · R+36.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 259,958 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
Franklin D. Roosevelt1932
+18.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+36.0 · U.S. D+17.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George McGovern, 1972 · +13.4 pts
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
+40.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+59.8 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · +37.6 pts
Current officeholders
Federal officeholders only. State and local officeholders are planned for the next data pass.
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
U.S. House
Each result reflects the U.S. House district as it was drawn for that election; redistricting has redrawn these lines over time, so they can differ from the current 120th-Congress district shown on the map above.
Covering the vast agricultural expanse of western and southwestern Minnesota, this district posted a 36.4-point Republican presidential margin in 2024, reflecting a rural electorate that has shifted decisively away from its Farmer-Labor roots over the past two decades.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 36.0 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 60.0 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 36.4 points.
A population of 712,869, a 88% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $74,383 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Congressional District 1 and Congressional District 8.
The congressional 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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Minnesota 7th Congressional District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/cd/2707/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.