- Lead
- 8,631
- Total
- 25,300
- vs nation
- D+35.6
Massachusetts 57th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 10,131
- Total
- 26,048
- vs nation
- D+34.4
- Lead
- 6,659
- Total
- 24,248
- vs nation
- D+25.4
- Lead
- 7,149
- Total
- 22,754
- vs nation
- D+27.6
- Lead
- 7,494
- Total
- 22,459
- vs nation
- D+26.1
- Lead
- 5,878
- Total
- 21,125
- vs nation
- D+30.3
- Lead
- 3,250
- Total
- 19,673
- vs nation
- D+16.0
- Lead
- 5,628
- Total
- 18,388
- vs nation
- D+22.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+34.1MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 42,5732024 5-year
- Population density
- 630 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 67.6 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $88,9302024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 83.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 6.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+38.9 in 2020MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+69.2 in 1896MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- 1st Hampshire District, MA · twin score 93.1
presidential history
Party record book
Massachusetts 57th 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
Joe Biden2020
68.2%
17,770 votes · D+38.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 67.2%
Republican
William McKinley1896
80.7%
2,254 votes · R+69.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 75.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
17,770votes
68.2% of the vote · D+38.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 16,567 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
9,822votes
51.5% of the vote · R+3.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 9,241 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
Kamala Harris2024
+35.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+34.1 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +34.4 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+63.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+69.2 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William H. Taft, 1912 · +46.5 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%15,502 | 0.0%0 | 15,502 |
| 2020 | D | 87.3%17,717 | 12.7%2,582 | 20,299 |
Anchored by the Five College region in western Massachusetts, this district's heavy concentration of students, faculty, and academic-sector workers produces presidential margins that routinely exceed 30 points Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 38.9 points in 2020 and a Republican high of 69.2 points in 1896. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 34.1 points.
A population of 42,573, a 83% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $88,930 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of 1st Hampshire District and 1st Franklin 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 57th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/25057/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.