- Lead
- 3,144
- Total
- 25,715
- vs nation
- R+10.8
Minnesota State House District 20A
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 2,632
- Total
- 25,561
- vs nation
- R+14.8
- Lead
- 2,880
- Total
- 22,716
- vs nation
- R+14.8
- Lead
- 1,018
- Total
- 23,170
- vs nation
- D+0.5
- Lead
- 1,459
- Total
- 23,310
- vs nation
- R+1.0
- Lead
- 886
- Total
- 23,044
- vs nation
- D+6.3
- Lead
- 623
- Total
- 20,248
- vs nation
- D+2.6
- Lead
- 3,567
- Total
- 18,774
- vs nation
- D+10.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+12.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 42,5592024 5-year
- Population density
- 63 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 674 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $78,9012024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 89.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.4%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 4.1%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+27.1 in 1932MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+64.6 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 19B, MN · twin score 90.8
presidential history
Party record book
Minnesota State House District 20A · 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
Franklin D. Roosevelt1932
62.1%
7,866 votes · D+27.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 61.8%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
79.9%
7,953 votes · R+64.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · 74.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
12,082votes
51.8% of the vote · D+6.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 11,790 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
14,162votes
55.1% of the vote · R+12.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 13,749 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
Michael Dukakis1988
+15.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+7.4 · U.S. R+7.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Walter Mondale, 1984 · +12.7 pts
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
+38.4pts R vs U.S.
Place R+64.6 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · +33.4 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 | R | 38.7%9,708 | 61.3%15,345 | 25,053 |
| 2020 | R | 41.7%9,914 | 58.3%13,869 | 23,783 |
Centered in greater Minnesota's agricultural interior, District 20A has shifted steadily rightward over the past decade, with the 2024 presidential margin reflecting a pattern common to low-density, majority-white rural districts statewide.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 27.1 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 64.6 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 12.2 points.
A population of 42,559, a 89% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $78,901 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 19B and State House District 26B.
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 20A. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/2720A/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.