- Lead
- 11,105
- Total
- 20,751
- vs nation
- D+55.0
Minnesota State House District 65B
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 12,151
- Total
- 21,996
- vs nation
- D+50.8
- Lead
- 9,610
- Total
- 19,786
- vs nation
- D+46.5
- Lead
- 9,513
- Total
- 19,719
- vs nation
- D+44.4
- Lead
- 9,431
- Total
- 19,312
- vs nation
- D+41.6
- Lead
- 8,100
- Total
- 18,598
- vs nation
- D+46.0
- Lead
- 6,246
- Total
- 16,315
- vs nation
- D+37.8
- Lead
- 6,874
- Total
- 15,430
- vs nation
- D+36.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+53.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 42,6082024 5-year
- Population density
- 5,072 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 8.4 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $73,1432024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 55.8%2024 5-year
- Black
- 14.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 17.3%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+60.3 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+24.0 in 1904MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 66A, MN · twin score 97.0
presidential history
Party record book
Minnesota State House District 65B · 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
79.9%
8,698 votes · D+60.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Samuel J. Tilden, 1876 · 77.9%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
58.3%
593 votes · R+24.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 45.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
16,789votes
76.3% of the vote · D+55.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 15,598 votes
Republican
George W. Bush2004
5,124votes
27.6% of the vote · D+43.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Mitt Romney, 2012 · 4,815 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
+58.5pts D vs U.S.
Place D+40.3 · U.S. R+18.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · +55.0 pts
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
+4.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+24.0 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · −2.9 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 | 68.1%14,605 | 31.9%6,856 | 21,461 |
With a 2024 presidential margin of D+53.5, this district ranks among the most reliably Democratic in the state, suggesting a dense urban core where competitive general elections are rare and primaries carry outsized weight.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 60.3 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 24.0 points in 1904. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 53.5 points.
A population of 42,608, a 56% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $73,143 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 66A and State House District 63A.
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 65B. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/2765B/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.