- Lead
- 2,644
- Total
- 7,064
- vs nation
- R+36.0
North Dakota 12th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 2,525
- Total
- 6,909
- vs nation
- R+41.0
- Lead
- 2,631
- Total
- 7,280
- vs nation
- R+38.2
- Lead
- 1,079
- Total
- 6,822
- vs nation
- R+19.7
- Lead
- 650
- Total
- 7,016
- vs nation
- R+16.5
- Lead
- 1,707
- Total
- 7,293
- vs nation
- R+20.9
- Lead
- 1,294
- Total
- 6,602
- vs nation
- R+20.1
- Lead
- 226
- Total
- 6,254
- vs nation
- R+4.9
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+37.4MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 15,8452024 5-year
- Population density
- 40 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 399 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $56,5922024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 88.7%2024 5-year
- Black
- 2.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 3.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+44.4 in 1932MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+55.6 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 29, ND · twin score 95.6
presidential history
Party record book
North Dakota 12th State House District · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 · 34 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1932
71.4%
4,759 votes · D+44.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 61.7%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
76.0%
3,767 votes · R+55.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · 73.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1932
4,759votes
71.4% of the vote · D+44.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 4,399 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
4,752votes
67.3% of the vote · R+37.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 4,609 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
Franklin D. Roosevelt1932
+26.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+44.4 · U.S. D+17.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Al Smith, 1928 · +12.6 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+55.7pts R vs U.S.
Place R+54.0 · U.S. D+1.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · +41.0 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.
Its Republican presidential margin was R+37.4 in 2024 and R+9.3 in 2008. About 3,810 residents lived here as of the 2024 ACS 5-year.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 44.4 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 55.6 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 0.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 37.4 points.
A population of 15,845, a 89% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $56,592 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 29 and State House District 6B.
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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