- Lead
- 27,140
- Total
- 36,023
- vs nation
- D+76.8
Oregon 44th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 31,644
- Total
- 41,068
- vs nation
- D+72.6
- Lead
- 25,292
- Total
- 35,666
- vs nation
- D+68.8
- Lead
- 23,303
- Total
- 32,048
- vs nation
- D+68.9
- Lead
- 23,781
- Total
- 31,942
- vs nation
- D+67.2
- Lead
- 20,747
- Total
- 30,701
- vs nation
- D+70.0
- Lead
- 14,483
- Total
- 24,846
- vs nation
- D+57.8
- Lead
- 12,169
- Total
- 22,685
- vs nation
- D+45.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+75.3MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 71,3162024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,229 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 32 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $92,8262024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 60.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 8.4%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 16.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+77.1 in 2020MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+46.8 in 1904MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 43, OR · twin score 99.1
presidential history
Party record book
Oregon 44th 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
Joe Biden2020
87.0%
35,742 votes · D+77.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 86.2%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
66.2%
578 votes · R+46.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1900 · 53.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
35,742votes
87.0% of the vote · D+77.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 30,724 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1952
6,949votes
39.7% of the vote · D+20.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 6,764 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
+76.8pts D vs U.S.
Place D+75.3 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +72.6 pts
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
+27.2pts R vs U.S.
Place R+46.8 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Benjamin Harrison, 1892 · +15.2 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.
With a 2024 presidential margin of D+75.3, this Portland-area district ranks among the most lopsided in the state, reflecting the dense urban concentration that defines its electorate.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 77.1 points in 2020 and a Republican high of 46.8 points in 1904. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 75.3 points.
A population of 71,316, a 61% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $92,826 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 43 and State House District 42.
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 44th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/41044/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.