- Lead
- 75
- Total
- 23,669
- vs nation
- D+1.2
Minnesota State House District 26A
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 1,250
- Total
- 23,107
- vs nation
- D+1.0
- Lead
- 260
- Total
- 22,497
- vs nation
- R+0.9
- Lead
- 4,058
- Total
- 23,615
- vs nation
- D+13.3
- Lead
- 5,680
- Total
- 24,363
- vs nation
- D+16.0
- Lead
- 2,399
- Total
- 23,771
- vs nation
- D+12.5
- Lead
- 1,074
- Total
- 20,654
- vs nation
- D+4.7
- Lead
- 2,695
- Total
- 18,746
- vs nation
- D+5.9
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+0.3MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 42,1692024 5-year
- Population density
- 102 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 412 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $66,7042024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 89.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 2.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 3.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+33.5 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+40.3 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Assembly District 95, WI · twin score 88.5
presidential history
Party record book
Minnesota State House District 26A · 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
66.1%
10,282 votes · D+32.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 64.4%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
67.7%
6,504 votes · R+40.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 62.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
14,729votes
60.5% of the vote · D+23.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 13,509 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
11,618votes
49.1% of the vote · R+0.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 10,660 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
Barack Obama2008
+16.0pts D vs U.S.
Place D+23.3 · U.S. D+7.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Al Smith, 1928 · +14.8 pts
Republican
Wendell Willkie1940
+19.8pts R vs U.S.
Place R+9.9 · U.S. D+9.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Thomas E. Dewey, 1944 · +18.2 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 | R | 46.0%10,406 | 54.0%12,213 | 22,619 |
| 2020 | D | 53.8%11,418 | 46.2%9,811 | 21,229 |
With a 2024 presidential margin of just R+0.3, District 26A sits at the razor's edge of partisan competition in south-central Minnesota, making it a perennial bellwether for statewide legislative control.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 33.5 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 40.3 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 5.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 0.3 points.
A population of 42,169, a 89% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $66,704 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Assembly District 95 and State House District 18A.
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 26A. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/2726A/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.