- Lead
- 15,146
- Total
- 22,119
- vs nation
- D+69.9
Minnesota State House District 59B
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 16,016
- Total
- 22,312
- vs nation
- D+67.3
- Lead
- 12,557
- Total
- 18,122
- vs nation
- D+67.2
- Lead
- 11,923
- Total
- 17,312
- vs nation
- D+65.0
- Lead
- 11,885
- Total
- 17,070
- vs nation
- D+62.4
- Lead
- 10,351
- Total
- 15,981
- vs nation
- D+67.2
- Lead
- 8,063
- Total
- 13,878
- vs nation
- D+57.6
- Lead
- 7,795
- Total
- 13,197
- vs nation
- D+50.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+68.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 42,4942024 5-year
- Population density
- 9,443 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 4.5 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $95,4732024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 43.7%2024 5-year
- Black
- 33.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 7.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+71.8 in 2020MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+23.1 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 59A, MN · twin score 97.2
presidential history
Party record book
Minnesota State House District 59B · 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
84.7%
18,907 votes · D+71.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 84.0%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
51.9%
320 votes · R+20.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 41.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
18,907votes
84.7% of the vote · D+71.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 18,308 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
3,162votes
14.3% of the vote · D+68.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 2,891 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
Walter Mondale1984
+72.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+54.3 · U.S. R+18.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George McGovern, 1972 · +70.8 pts
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
+1.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+20.8 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · −2.1 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 | 67.2%15,452 | 32.8%7,559 | 23,011 |
District 59B posts presidential margins exceeding 68 points for Democrats, reflecting a dense, highly educated urban core where one-party dominance has been consistent across multiple election cycles.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 71.8 points in 2020 and a Republican high of 23.1 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 68.5 points.
A population of 42,494, a 44% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $95,473 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 59A and State House District 62B.
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 59B. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/2759B/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.