- Lead
- 2,745
- Total
- 26,436
- vs nation
- D+11.9
Minnesota State House District 48B
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 2,938
- Total
- 26,708
- vs nation
- D+6.5
- Lead
- 192
- Total
- 23,248
- vs nation
- R+1.3
- Lead
- 989
- Total
- 21,823
- vs nation
- R+8.4
- Lead
- 82
- Total
- 20,599
- vs nation
- R+6.9
- Lead
- 2,087
- Total
- 18,506
- vs nation
- R+8.8
- Lead
- 1,330
- Total
- 14,397
- vs nation
- R+9.8
- Lead
- 1,252
- Total
- 11,963
- vs nation
- D+1.9
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+10.4MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 42,9032024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,393 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 30.8 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $123,1502024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 80.5%2024 5-year
- Black
- 2.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 7.3%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+40.0 in 1932MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+68.2 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 56B, MN · twin score 96.2
presidential history
Party record book
Minnesota State House District 48B · 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
Franklin D. Roosevelt1932
69.4%
2,149 votes · D+40.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Samuel J. Tilden, 1876 · 67.2%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
82.2%
1,807 votes · R+68.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Wendell Willkie, 1940 · 72.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
14,511votes
54.3% of the vote · D+11.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 14,243 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
11,573votes
43.3% of the vote · D+11.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 11,498 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
Franklin D. Roosevelt1932
+22.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+40.0 · U.S. D+17.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Al Smith, 1928 · +18.2 pts
Republican
Wendell Willkie1940
+54.8pts R vs U.S.
Place R+44.9 · U.S. D+9.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Thomas E. Dewey, 1944 · +51.4 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 | R | 42.7%11,165 | 57.3%14,972 | 26,137 |
Minnesota State House District 48B sits in the Upper Midwest. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 40.0 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 68.2 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 0.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 10.4 points.
A population of 42,903, a 81% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $123,150 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 56B and State House District 55A.
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 48B. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/2748B/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.