- Lead
- 471
- Total
- 21,470
- vs nation
- R+0.7
Massachusetts 143rd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 1,240
- Total
- 21,310
- vs nation
- D+1.4
- Lead
- 305
- Total
- 19,560
- vs nation
- R+3.6
- Lead
- 639
- Total
- 17,675
- vs nation
- R+7.5
- Lead
- 95
- Total
- 17,482
- vs nation
- R+6.7
- Lead
- 201
- Total
- 16,339
- vs nation
- D+3.7
- Lead
- 1,078
- Total
- 15,013
- vs nation
- D+6.7
- Lead
- 2,384
- Total
- 14,095
- vs nation
- D+8.4
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+2.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 42,6082024 5-year
- Population density
- 351 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 121 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $78,9102024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 84.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 2.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 7.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+44.0 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+60.0 in 1896MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- 2nd Franklin District, MA · twin score 93.5
presidential history
Party record book
Massachusetts 143rd 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
71.8%
8,794 votes · D+44.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hubert Humphrey, 1968 · 56.8%
Republican
William McKinley1896
75.0%
1,965 votes · R+60.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 73.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
10,939votes
51.3% of the vote · D+5.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 10,216 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
10,687votes
49.8% of the vote · R+2.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 9,699 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
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
+21.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+44.0 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hubert Humphrey, 1968 · +18.8 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+53.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+60.0 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William H. Taft, 1912 · +40.9 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%13,009 | 0.0%0 | 13,009 |
| 2020 | D | 68.9%13,383 | 31.1%6,037 | 19,420 |
Covering a slice of central Massachusetts once reliably Democratic at the presidential level, the 2nd Worcester District recorded an R+2.2 margin in 2024, signaling a competitive shift in a working-class corner of the region.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 44.0 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 60.0 points in 1896. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 8.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 2.2 points.
A population of 42,608, a 84% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $78,910 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of 2nd Franklin District and 1st Hampden 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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