- Lead
- 7,974
- Total
- 26,179
- vs nation
- R+29.0
Minnesota State House District 20B
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 7,356
- Total
- 25,457
- vs nation
- R+33.4
- Lead
- 6,781
- Total
- 22,682
- vs nation
- R+32.0
- Lead
- 4,360
- Total
- 22,072
- vs nation
- R+23.6
- Lead
- 3,851
- Total
- 21,829
- vs nation
- R+24.9
- Lead
- 5,049
- Total
- 21,762
- vs nation
- R+20.7
- Lead
- 4,552
- Total
- 18,742
- vs nation
- R+24.8
- Lead
- 1,549
- Total
- 16,565
- vs nation
- R+17.9
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+30.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 42,1982024 5-year
- Population density
- 42 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 999 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $97,5702024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 92.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 0.6%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 3.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+7.7 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+70.8 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 24A, MN · twin score 95.7
presidential history
Party record book
Minnesota State House District 20B · 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
52.6%
4,540 votes · D+6.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 49.1%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
83.9%
7,041 votes · R+70.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · 77.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
8,845votes
33.8% of the vote · R+30.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 8,784 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
16,819votes
64.2% of the vote · R+30.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 16,139 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
Franklin D. Roosevelt1932
−10.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+6.9 · U.S. D+17.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1912 · −11.8 pts
Republican
Wendell Willkie1940
+48.6pts R vs U.S.
Place R+38.6 · U.S. D+9.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · +44.6 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 | 43.0%10,258 | 57.0%13,621 | 23,879 |
| 2020 | R | 43.1%6,681 | 56.9%8,817 | 15,498 |
District 20B posts presidential margins exceeding 30 points Republican, reflecting the broader rural realignment across northwestern Minnesota's farming and small-town communities over the past decade.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 7.7 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 70.8 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 30.5 points.
A population of 42,198, a 92% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $97,570 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 24A and State House District 22B.
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 20B. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/2720B/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.