- Lead
- 4,415
- Total
- 26,560
- vs nation
- D+18.1
Minnesota State House District 36B
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 4,642
- Total
- 27,049
- vs nation
- D+12.7
- Lead
- 2,140
- Total
- 25,095
- vs nation
- D+6.4
- Lead
- 357
- Total
- 26,165
- vs nation
- R+2.5
- Lead
- 60
- Total
- 26,125
- vs nation
- R+7.5
- Lead
- 1,973
- Total
- 26,337
- vs nation
- R+5.0
- Lead
- 2,921
- Total
- 23,945
- vs nation
- R+12.7
- Lead
- 215
- Total
- 21,487
- vs nation
- R+9.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+16.6MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 42,8792024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,369 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 18.1 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $92,2852024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 79.6%2024 5-year
- Black
- 4.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 5.0%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+17.2 in 2020MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+70.4 in 1904MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 33B, MN · twin score 94.5
presidential history
Party record book
Minnesota State House District 36B · 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
Joe Biden2020
57.4%
15,532 votes · D+17.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 57.2%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
82.4%
2,592 votes · R+70.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · 73.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
15,532votes
57.4% of the vote · D+17.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 15,195 votes
Republican
George W. Bush2004
14,000votes
53.2% of the vote · R+7.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 13,615 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
Kamala Harris2024
+18.1pts D vs U.S.
Place D+16.6 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +12.7 pts
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
+50.8pts R vs U.S.
Place R+70.4 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · +43.0 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 | 70.6%14,783 | 29.4%6,144 | 20,927 |
District 36B sits within Minnesota's Twin Cities suburban ring, where college-educated voters and consistent Democratic margins have defined recent cycles. Its 2024 presidential result of D+16.6 places it well outside competitive territory.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 17.2 points in 2020 and a Republican high of 70.4 points in 1904. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 0.5 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 16.6 points.
A population of 42,879, a 80% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $92,285 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 33B and State House District 40A.
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 36B. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/2736B/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.