- Lead
- 6,985
- Total
- 28,534
- vs nation
- R+23.0
Minnesota State House District 30A
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 6,247
- Total
- 25,221
- vs nation
- R+29.2
- Lead
- 6,829
- Total
- 20,904
- vs nation
- R+34.8
- Lead
- 4,449
- Total
- 20,412
- vs nation
- R+25.7
- Lead
- 3,506
- Total
- 19,757
- vs nation
- R+25.0
- Lead
- 4,122
- Total
- 17,987
- vs nation
- R+20.5
- Lead
- 2,244
- Total
- 13,126
- vs nation
- R+17.6
- Lead
- 559
- Total
- 10,625
- vs nation
- R+3.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+24.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 42,9662024 5-year
- Population density
- 457 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 94 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $130,9922024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 87.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 3.4%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 2.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+31.7 in 1932MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+62.8 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 30B, MN · twin score 95.1
presidential history
Party record book
Minnesota State House District 30A · 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
64.7%
2,173 votes · D+31.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 59.4%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
77.8%
2,181 votes · R+62.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · 74.0%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
10,478votes
36.7% of the vote · R+24.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 9,198 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
17,463votes
61.2% of the vote · R+24.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 15,445 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
+13.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+31.7 · U.S. D+17.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George McGovern, 1972 · +13.3 pts
Republican
Wendell Willkie1940
+45.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+35.1 · U.S. D+9.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Thomas E. Dewey, 1944 · +39.4 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 | 33.1%8,315 | 66.9%16,776 | 25,091 |
| 2020 | R | 29.9%6,802 | 70.1%15,948 | 22,750 |
District 30A logged an R+24.4 margin in 2024, reflecting the broader realignment of small-town and agricultural communities in south-central Minnesota away from the competitive patterns of earlier decades.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 31.7 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 62.8 points in 1920. The 2024 margin was 24.5 points.
A population of 42,966, a 87% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $130,992 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 30B and State House District 31A.
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 30A. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/2730A/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.