- Lead
- 9,092
- Total
- 36,507
- vs nation
- R+23.4
Oregon 17th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 8,210
- Total
- 36,697
- vs nation
- R+26.8
- Lead
- 7,497
- Total
- 30,083
- vs nation
- R+27.0
- Lead
- 6,585
- Total
- 26,407
- vs nation
- R+28.8
- Lead
- 5,367
- Total
- 26,908
- vs nation
- R+27.2
- Lead
- 8,909
- Total
- 28,762
- vs nation
- R+28.5
- Lead
- 6,836
- Total
- 24,859
- vs nation
- R+28.0
- Lead
- 3,954
- Total
- 23,018
- vs nation
- R+25.7
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+24.9MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 70,8072024 5-year
- Population density
- 67 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 1,058 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $85,0712024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 70.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 0.8%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 19.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+6.5 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+64.6 in 1904MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 12, ID · twin score 89.0
presidential history
Party record book
Oregon 17th State House District · 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
52.6%
5,594 votes · D+5.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 49.8%
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1952
78.0%
7,992 votes · R+56.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · 77.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
13,697votes
37.3% of the vote · R+22.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 13,116 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
22,208votes
60.8% of the vote · R+24.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 21,907 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
George McGovern1972
−15.3pts D vs U.S.
Place R+38.5 · U.S. R+23.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · −16.9 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+49.4pts R vs U.S.
Place R+47.8 · U.S. D+1.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · +45.6 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 | R | 46.2%14,044 | 53.8%16,357 | 30,401 |
| 2020 | R | 48.4%15,525 | 51.6%16,522 | 32,047 |
Oregon 17th State House District sits in the Pacific Northwest. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 6.5 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 64.6 points in 1904. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.5 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 24.9 points.
A population of 70,807, a 70% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $85,071 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 12 and Assembly District 33.
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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Oregon 17th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/41017/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.