- Lead
- 5,348
- Total
- 23,580
- vs nation
- D+24.2
Minnesota State House District 56A
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 5,702
- Total
- 24,914
- vs nation
- D+18.4
- Lead
- 2,303
- Total
- 21,983
- vs nation
- D+8.4
- Lead
- 2,030
- Total
- 21,844
- vs nation
- D+5.4
- Lead
- 2,521
- Total
- 21,429
- vs nation
- D+4.5
- Lead
- 893
- Total
- 20,405
- vs nation
- D+6.8
- Lead
- 874
- Total
- 17,258
- vs nation
- D+4.5
- Lead
- 2,723
- Total
- 14,704
- vs nation
- D+10.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+22.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 42,7502024 5-year
- Population density
- 3,448 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 12.4 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $91,6522024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 68.5%2024 5-year
- Black
- 9.6%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 9.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+40.4 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+32.9 in 1904MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 55B, MN · twin score 98.2
presidential history
Party record book
Minnesota State House District 56A · 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
70.1%
2,866 votes · D+40.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 68.0%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
64.8%
254 votes · R+32.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 60.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
14,988votes
60.2% of the vote · D+22.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 14,129 votes
Republican
Mitt Romney2012
9,678votes
44.3% of the vote · D+9.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · 9,635 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
+32.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+15.2 · U.S. R+17.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Harry S. Truman, 1948 · +30.9 pts
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
+13.2pts R vs U.S.
Place R+32.9 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · +3.7 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%14,326 | 39.9%9,521 | 23,847 |
| 2020 | D | 54.5%12,616 | 45.5%10,539 | 23,155 |
District 56A posts among the larger Democratic presidential margins in the Twin Cities metro, reflecting a dense, highly educated urban core where third-party and independent candidacies have historically drawn minimal support.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 40.4 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 32.9 points in 1904. The 2024 margin was 22.7 points.
A population of 42,750, a 69% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $91,652 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 55B and State House District 52A.
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 56A. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/2756A/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.