- Lead
- 8,376
- Total
- 22,636
- vs nation
- D+38.5
Minnesota State House District 43A
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 8,346
- Total
- 23,822
- vs nation
- D+30.6
- Lead
- 5,658
- Total
- 21,883
- vs nation
- D+23.8
- Lead
- 3,735
- Total
- 22,120
- vs nation
- D+13.0
- Lead
- 4,006
- Total
- 21,482
- vs nation
- D+11.4
- Lead
- 1,978
- Total
- 21,142
- vs nation
- D+11.8
- Lead
- 801
- Total
- 18,854
- vs nation
- D+3.7
- Lead
- 2,078
- Total
- 17,150
- vs nation
- D+3.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+37.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 42,8302024 5-year
- Population density
- 4,199 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 10.2 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $86,3102024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 63.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 17.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 8.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+37.0 in 2024MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+71.3 in 1904MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 43B, MN · twin score 97.6
presidential history
Party record book
Minnesota State House District 43A · 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
Kamala Harris2024
67.1%
15,192 votes · D+37.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 66.1%
Republican
James A. Garfield1880
79.4%
347 votes · R+60.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · 78.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
15,744votes
66.1% of the vote · D+35.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 15,192 votes
Republican
George W. Bush2004
9,402votes
44.5% of the vote · D+9.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 9,352 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
+38.5pts D vs U.S.
Place D+37.0 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +30.6 pts
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
+51.6pts R vs U.S.
Place R+71.3 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1900 · +31.1 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 | 67.1%15,574 | 32.9%7,619 | 23,193 |
With a 2024 presidential margin of D+37, District 43A ranks among the most reliably left-leaning state house districts in Minnesota, suggesting a dense, urban core electorate that has voted consistently Democratic across multiple cycles.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 37.0 points in 2024 and a Republican high of 71.3 points in 1904. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.0 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 37.0 points.
A population of 42,830, a 63% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $86,310 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 43B and State House District 46B.
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 43A. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/2743A/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.