- Lead
- 3,579
- Total
- 14,690
- vs nation
- D+25.8
Massachusetts 34th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 6,659
- Total
- 16,494
- vs nation
- D+35.9
- Lead
- 6,137
- Total
- 15,308
- vs nation
- D+38.0
- Lead
- 5,112
- Total
- 14,263
- vs nation
- D+32.0
- Lead
- 5,506
- Total
- 13,927
- vs nation
- D+32.3
- Lead
- 4,859
- Total
- 13,099
- vs nation
- D+39.6
- Lead
- 4,912
- Total
- 12,169
- vs nation
- D+39.8
- Lead
- 5,184
- Total
- 11,468
- vs nation
- D+36.7
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+24.4MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 45,5262024 5-year
- Population density
- 7,463 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 6.1 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $71,8152024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 33.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 10.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 43.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+63.4 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+34.8 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- 10th Essex District, MA · twin score 98.9
presidential history
Party record book
Massachusetts 34th State House 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
81.6%
9,654 votes · D+63.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hubert Humphrey, 1968 · 70.7%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
63.9%
2,861 votes · R+32.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 60.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
11,420votes
69.2% of the vote · D+40.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 10,224 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
5,361votes
36.5% of the vote · D+24.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 4,979 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
George McGovern1972
+50.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+27.3 · U.S. R+23.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hubert Humphrey, 1968 · +44.8 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+23.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+29.3 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · +9.6 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 | 100.0%16,802 | 0.0%0 | 16,802 |
With a 2024 presidential margin of D+24.4, the 11th Essex District ranks among Massachusetts' more reliably Democratic state house seats, drawing on urban working-class and immigrant communities concentrated along the Merrimack Valley corridor.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 63.4 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 34.8 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 16.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 24.4 points.
A population of 45,526, a 33% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $71,815 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of 10th Essex District and 17th Essex District.
The state-house 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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Massachusetts 34th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/25034/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.