- Lead
- 6,346
- Total
- 23,849
- vs nation
- D+28.1
Minnesota State House District 52A
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 6,883
- Total
- 25,374
- vs nation
- D+22.7
- Lead
- 3,687
- Total
- 22,830
- vs nation
- D+14.1
- Lead
- 3,480
- Total
- 22,651
- vs nation
- D+11.5
- Lead
- 3,981
- Total
- 22,186
- vs nation
- D+10.7
- Lead
- 2,241
- Total
- 21,043
- vs nation
- D+13.1
- Lead
- 1,980
- Total
- 17,797
- vs nation
- D+10.6
- Lead
- 3,633
- Total
- 15,319
- vs nation
- D+15.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+26.6MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 42,9942024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,251 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 19.1 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $87,9442024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 65.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 13.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 7.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+44.8 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+25.6 in 1904MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 56A, MN · twin score 97.8
presidential history
Party record book
Minnesota State House District 52A · 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
72.2%
3,122 votes · D+44.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 70.8%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
60.2%
245 votes · R+25.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 57.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
15,788votes
62.2% of the vote · D+27.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 14,780 votes
Republican
Mitt Romney2012
9,316votes
41.1% of the vote · D+15.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · 9,275 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
Al Smith1928
+39.0pts D vs U.S.
Place D+21.5 · U.S. R+17.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Harry S. Truman, 1948 · +36.3 pts
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
+5.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+25.6 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · −1.3 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 | 60.1%14,408 | 39.9%9,576 | 23,984 |
| 2020 | D | 54.5%12,688 | 45.5%10,599 | 23,287 |
With a 2024 presidential margin of D+26.6, this district ranks among Minnesota's most lopsided at the state house level, reflecting a dense, highly educated urban core where third-party candidacies rarely dent the dominant coalition.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 44.8 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 25.6 points in 1904. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 0.5 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 26.6 points.
A population of 42,994, a 65% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $87,944 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 56A and State House District 55B.
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 52A. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/2752A/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.