- Lead
- 7,857
- Total
- 14,099
- vs nation
- D+57.2
Minnesota State House District 65A
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 10,881
- Total
- 17,163
- vs nation
- D+58.9
- Lead
- 10,413
- Total
- 15,581
- vs nation
- D+64.7
- Lead
- 10,471
- Total
- 15,656
- vs nation
- D+63.0
- Lead
- 10,310
- Total
- 15,495
- vs nation
- D+59.3
- Lead
- 9,295
- Total
- 14,866
- vs nation
- D+65.0
- Lead
- 7,187
- Total
- 13,111
- vs nation
- D+54.3
- Lead
- 7,400
- Total
- 12,601
- vs nation
- D+50.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+55.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 42,2162024 5-year
- Population density
- 7,818 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 5.4 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $58,6012024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 27.7%2024 5-year
- Black
- 33.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 9.1%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+89.2 in 1876MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+15.2 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 59A, MN · twin score 96.3
presidential history
Party record book
Minnesota State House District 65A · 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
94.6%
279 votes · D+89.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Winfield S. Hancock, 1880 · 85.9%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
49.5%
491 votes · R+8.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · 39.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
13,840votes
80.6% of the vote · D+63.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 12,879 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
2,959votes
17.2% of the vote · D+63.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 2,892 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
+75.5pts D vs U.S.
Place D+57.3 · U.S. R+18.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George McGovern, 1972 · +69.7 pts
Republican
Calvin Coolidge1924
−9.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+15.2 · U.S. R+25.2 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · −11.4 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
District 65A posts presidential margins above 55 points Democratic, reflecting a dense, highly educated urban core where third-party candidates rarely draw significant shares away from the Democratic column.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 89.2 points in 1876 and a Republican high of 15.2 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 7.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 55.7 points.
A population of 42,216, a 28% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $58,601 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 67B.
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
Open the source-auditable district brief for electoral baseline, electorate, current-cycle coverage, geography, official dates, and methodology. Open campaign intelligence report → · Browse all comparisons →
Minnesota State House District 65A. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/2765A/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.