- Lead
- 22,547
- Total
- 28,340
- vs nation
- D+81.0
Minnesota State House District 61B
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 23,215
- Total
- 30,090
- vs nation
- D+72.7
- Lead
- 19,449
- Total
- 28,095
- vs nation
- D+67.1
- Lead
- 18,267
- Total
- 26,957
- vs nation
- D+63.9
- Lead
- 18,253
- Total
- 26,631
- vs nation
- D+61.3
- Lead
- 15,950
- Total
- 24,967
- vs nation
- D+66.3
- Lead
- 12,437
- Total
- 21,586
- vs nation
- D+57.1
- Lead
- 12,123
- Total
- 20,316
- vs nation
- D+51.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+79.6MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 42,8252024 5-year
- Population density
- 7,786 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 5.5 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $112,2762024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 82.6%2024 5-year
- Black
- 3.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 4.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+79.6 in 2024MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+25.7 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 63B, MN · twin score 98.7
presidential history
Party record book
Minnesota State House District 61B · 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
Samuel J. Tilden1876
89.2%
371 votes · D+78.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 88.4%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
49.2%
549 votes · R+11.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 39.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
26,393votes
87.7% of the vote · D+77.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 25,064 votes
Republican
George W. Bush2004
4,376votes
17.5% of the vote · D+63.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 4,370 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
+81.0pts D vs U.S.
Place D+79.6 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +72.7 pts
Republican
Calvin Coolidge1924
+0.5pts R vs U.S.
Place R+25.7 · U.S. R+25.2 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · −7.7 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 | 67.1%15,572 | 32.9%7,618 | 23,190 |
With a 2024 presidential margin of D+79.6, this Minneapolis-area district ranks among the most heavily Democratic state house seats in Minnesota, reflecting a dense urban core where Republican candidates rarely compete meaningfully.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 79.6 points in 2024 and a Republican high of 25.7 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.4 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 79.6 points.
A population of 42,825, a 83% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $112,276 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 63B and State House District 46A.
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 61B. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/2761B/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.