- Lead
- 2,287
- Total
- 24,846
- vs nation
- R+7.7
Minnesota State House District 7B
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 1,144
- Total
- 25,207
- vs nation
- R+9.0
- Lead
- 541
- Total
- 23,705
- vs nation
- R+4.4
- Lead
- 3,718
- Total
- 23,757
- vs nation
- D+11.8
- Lead
- 4,434
- Total
- 24,301
- vs nation
- D+11.0
- Lead
- 4,189
- Total
- 24,487
- vs nation
- D+19.6
- Lead
- 2,871
- Total
- 22,038
- vs nation
- D+12.5
- Lead
- 4,675
- Total
- 19,928
- vs nation
- D+14.9
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+9.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 42,2582024 5-year
- Population density
- 26 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 1,647 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $64,3352024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 91.7%2024 5-year
- Black
- 0.9%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 1.3%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+39.4 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+81.1 in 1904MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 7A, MN · twin score 96.4
presidential history
Party record book
Minnesota State House District 7B · 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
69.6%
14,639 votes · D+39.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 69.2%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
89.5%
2,561 votes · R+81.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James G. Blaine, 1884 · 88.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
14,639votes
69.6% of the vote · D+39.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John Kerry, 2004 · 14,272 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
13,287votes
53.5% of the vote · R+9.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 12,866 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
Walter Mondale1984
+43.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+25.4 · U.S. R+18.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hubert Humphrey, 1968 · +33.8 pts
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
+61.4pts R vs U.S.
Place R+81.1 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William H. Taft, 1908 · +49.0 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 | 55.1%13,647 | 44.9%11,100 | 24,747 |
District 7B sits in greater Minnesota's rural tier, where the 2024 presidential margin of R+9.2 reflects a broader shift in nonmetro areas over the past decade. With roughly 42,000 residents, its electorate is small but reliably competitive at the legislative level.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 39.4 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 81.1 points in 1904. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 9.2 points.
A population of 42,258, a 92% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $64,335 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 7A and State House District 11A.
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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Minnesota State House District 7B. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/2707B/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.