- Lead
- 11,293
- Total
- 26,673
- vs nation
- D+43.8
Minnesota State House District 8B
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 11,078
- Total
- 26,257
- vs nation
- D+37.7
- Lead
- 8,105
- Total
- 26,689
- vs nation
- D+28.3
- Lead
- 13,425
- Total
- 28,287
- vs nation
- D+43.6
- Lead
- 14,712
- Total
- 29,243
- vs nation
- D+43.0
- Lead
- 14,614
- Total
- 29,357
- vs nation
- D+52.2
- Lead
- 11,617
- Total
- 26,383
- vs nation
- D+43.5
- Lead
- 12,411
- Total
- 25,422
- vs nation
- D+40.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+42.3MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 42,6022024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,287 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 33.1 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $88,0222024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 86.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 3.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 2.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+66.3 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+40.4 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 64A, MN · twin score 90.6
presidential history
Party record book
Minnesota State House District 8B · 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
82.8%
22,090 votes · D+66.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 80.3%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
63.2%
1,853 votes · R+40.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James G. Blaine, 1884 · 59.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
22,090votes
82.8% of the vote · D+66.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John Kerry, 2004 · 21,669 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2016
7,917votes
29.7% of the vote · D+30.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 7,873 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
+73.5pts D vs U.S.
Place D+55.3 · U.S. R+18.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Michael Dukakis, 1988 · +62.1 pts
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
+20.4pts R vs U.S.
Place R+40.0 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · +15.2 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%13,758 | 44.9%11,191 | 24,949 |
District 8B delivers presidential margins exceeding 40 points for Democrats, reflecting a dense, highly educated urban core where competitive general elections are rare and primary contests often carry more weight.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 66.3 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 40.4 points in 1924. The 2024 margin was 42.3 points.
A population of 42,602, a 86% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $88,022 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 64A and State House District 8A.
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 8B. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/2708B/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.