- Lead
- 36,599
- Total
- 42,688
- vs nation
- D+87.2
Oregon 43rd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 40,329
- Total
- 46,692
- vs nation
- D+81.9
- Lead
- 32,592
- Total
- 41,386
- vs nation
- D+78.9
- Lead
- 31,244
- Total
- 37,167
- vs nation
- D+80.2
- Lead
- 31,881
- Total
- 37,652
- vs nation
- D+77.4
- Lead
- 28,607
- Total
- 35,307
- vs nation
- D+83.5
- Lead
- 20,449
- Total
- 27,875
- vs nation
- D+72.8
- Lead
- 16,315
- Total
- 25,148
- vs nation
- D+60.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+85.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 70,7542024 5-year
- Population density
- 8,844 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 8 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $103,7322024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 67.5%2024 5-year
- Black
- 10.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 9.3%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+88.9 in 1876MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 42, OR · twin score 99.3
presidential history
Party record book
Oregon 43rd 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
Samuel J. Tilden1876
94.4%
153 votes · D+88.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Winfield S. Hancock, 1880 · 93.0%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
34.3%
217 votes · D+7.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 31.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
42,994votes
92.1% of the vote · D+86.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 38,663 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1952
4,599votes
25.9% of the vote · D+47.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 4,552 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
+87.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+85.7 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John Kerry, 2004 · +83.5 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
−16.0pts R vs U.S.
Place D+17.7 · U.S. D+1.7 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William H. Taft, 1912 · −25.3 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.
Anchored in rural eastern or southern Oregon, this district has delivered presidential margins exceeding 24 points Republican, making it among the most reliably conservative constituencies in a state that trends Democratic statewide.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 88.9 points in 1876. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 0.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 85.7 points.
A population of 70,754, a 68% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $103,732 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 42 and State House District 44.
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 43rd State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/41043/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.