- Lead
- 6,437
- Total
- 23,537
- vs nation
- R+25.9
Minnesota State House District 23A
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 5,405
- Total
- 23,596
- vs nation
- R+27.4
- Lead
- 5,274
- Total
- 22,503
- vs nation
- R+25.5
- Lead
- 1,151
- Total
- 23,110
- vs nation
- D+1.1
- Lead
- 1,786
- Total
- 24,000
- vs nation
- D+0.2
- Lead
- 614
- Total
- 24,633
- vs nation
- D+5.0
- Lead
- 523
- Total
- 22,612
- vs nation
- D+1.8
- Lead
- 3,446
- Total
- 22,092
- vs nation
- D+7.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+27.3MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 42,6722024 5-year
- Population density
- 32 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 1,352 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $71,5592024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 84.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 8.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+20.0 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+69.2 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 16A, MN · twin score 97.5
presidential history
Party record book
Minnesota State House District 23A · 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
59.9%
14,141 votes · D+20.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 58.5%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
83.0%
10,932 votes · R+69.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · 77.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
14,141votes
59.9% of the vote · D+20.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Jimmy Carter, 1976 · 12,769 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
14,784votes
62.8% of the vote · R+27.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 14,263 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
+14.4pts D vs U.S.
Place R+3.8 · U.S. R+18.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Michael Dukakis, 1988 · +9.6 pts
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
+43.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+69.2 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · +42.5 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 | 35.4%8,061 | 64.6%14,690 | 22,751 |
District 23A recorded a 27.3-point Republican presidential margin in 2024, reflecting the rural, low-density character typical of Greater Minnesota districts far from the Twin Cities metro.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 20.0 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 69.2 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 27.3 points.
A population of 42,672, a 84% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $71,559 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 16A and State House District 60.
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 23A. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/2723A/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.