- Lead
- 13,801
- Total
- 25,937
- vs nation
- D+54.7
Minnesota State House District 46A
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 14,757
- Total
- 27,361
- vs nation
- D+49.5
- Lead
- 11,473
- Total
- 24,705
- vs nation
- D+44.4
- Lead
- 9,875
- Total
- 24,353
- vs nation
- D+36.7
- Lead
- 9,991
- Total
- 23,711
- vs nation
- D+34.9
- Lead
- 7,854
- Total
- 22,841
- vs nation
- D+36.8
- Lead
- 5,681
- Total
- 20,151
- vs nation
- D+27.7
- Lead
- 6,304
- Total
- 18,694
- vs nation
- D+25.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+53.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 42,4792024 5-year
- Population density
- 4,939 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 8.6 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $96,1592024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 76.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 8.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 5.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+53.9 in 2020MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+54.7 in 1904MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 61B, MN · twin score 98.4
presidential history
Party record book
Minnesota State House District 46A · 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
75.7%
20,721 votes · D+53.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 75.4%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
69.8%
902 votes · R+54.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James A. Garfield, 1880 · 59.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
20,721votes
75.7% of the vote · D+53.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 19,550 votes
Republican
George W. Bush2004
7,319votes
32.0% of the vote · D+34.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 7,298 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
+54.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+53.2 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +49.5 pts
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
+35.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+54.7 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · +18.4 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 | D | 67.2%15,447 | 32.8%7,556 | 23,003 |
District 46A posts presidential margins exceeding 50 points, placing it among the most one-sided state house seats in Minnesota. Its results reliably anchor the DFL's Minneapolis-area base in legislative math.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 53.9 points in 2020 and a Republican high of 54.7 points in 1904. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 0.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 53.2 points.
A population of 42,479, a 76% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $96,159 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 61B and State House District 64A.
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 46A. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/2746A/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.