- Lead
- 584
- Total
- 28,569
- vs nation
- D+3.5
Minnesota State House District 36A
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 707
- Total
- 28,307
- vs nation
- R+2.0
- Lead
- 1,400
- Total
- 25,051
- vs nation
- R+7.7
- Lead
- 924
- Total
- 25,561
- vs nation
- R+7.5
- Lead
- 1,029
- Total
- 25,174
- vs nation
- R+11.4
- Lead
- 2,295
- Total
- 24,558
- vs nation
- R+6.9
- Lead
- 1,646
- Total
- 21,235
- vs nation
- R+8.3
- Lead
- 1,432
- Total
- 18,426
- vs nation
- R+0.7
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+2.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 42,9482024 5-year
- Population density
- 961 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 44.7 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $129,4302024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 85.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 2.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 2.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+16.3 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+72.7 in 1904MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 41A, MN · twin score 94.8
presidential history
Party record book
Minnesota State House District 36A · 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
58.0%
5,766 votes · D+16.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hubert Humphrey, 1968 · 50.4%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
84.0%
1,115 votes · R+72.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 74.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
14,232votes
49.8% of the vote · D+2.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 14,159 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
13,648votes
47.8% of the vote · D+2.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 13,452 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
+9.2pts D vs U.S.
Place R+9.0 · U.S. R+18.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Jimmy Carter, 1980 · +8.1 pts
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
+53.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+72.7 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1900 · +43.8 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 | D | 52.4%11,867 | 47.6%10,781 | 22,648 |
District 36A sits in the inner-ring suburbs northwest of Minneapolis, where a shifting mix of longtime homeowners and newer residents has compressed the presidential margin to roughly two points, making it a reliable bellwether for metro-area legislative races.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 16.3 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 72.7 points in 1904. The 2024 margin was 2.0 points.
A population of 42,948, a 86% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $129,430 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 41A and State House District 45A.
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 36A. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/2736A/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.