- Lead
- 820
- Total
- 23,573
- vs nation
- D+5.0
Minnesota State House District 35A
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 935
- Total
- 24,048
- vs nation
- R+0.6
- Lead
- 1,097
- Total
- 21,758
- vs nation
- R+7.1
- Lead
- 504
- Total
- 21,819
- vs nation
- R+1.5
- Lead
- 548
- Total
- 21,301
- vs nation
- R+4.7
- Lead
- 332
- Total
- 20,255
- vs nation
- D+0.8
- Lead
- 656
- Total
- 17,044
- vs nation
- D+3.3
- Lead
- 3,189
- Total
- 14,847
- vs nation
- D+13.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+3.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 42,8912024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,840 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 15.1 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $81,8342024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 76.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 8.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 4.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+45.1 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+67.0 in 1904MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 35B, MN · twin score 96.8
presidential history
Party record book
Minnesota State House District 35A · 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
72.4%
3,872 votes · D+45.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Harry S. Truman, 1948 · 66.3%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
82.1%
179 votes · R+67.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 71.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
12,142votes
50.5% of the vote · D+3.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 11,905 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
11,207votes
46.6% of the vote · D+3.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 11,085 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
Hubert Humphrey1968
+33.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+32.6 · U.S. R+0.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Harry S. Truman, 1948 · +31.3 pts
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
+47.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+67.0 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1900 · +33.7 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 | 45.4%10,616 | 54.6%12,759 | 23,375 |
| 2020 | R | 42.6%9,841 | 57.4%13,269 | 23,110 |
District 35A sits in Minnesota's outer Twin Cities suburbs, where population growth and shifting commuter demographics have compressed margins that once ran wider, making it a reliable bellwether for statewide legislative control.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 45.1 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 67.0 points in 1904. The 2024 margin was 3.5 points.
A population of 42,891, a 76% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $81,834 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 35B and State House District 32B.
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 35A. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/2735A/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.