- Lead
- 22,017
- Total
- 34,368
- vs nation
- D+65.5
Oregon 46th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 24,701
- Total
- 39,054
- vs nation
- D+58.8
- Lead
- 18,892
- Total
- 32,664
- vs nation
- D+55.7
- Lead
- 16,892
- Total
- 29,519
- vs nation
- D+53.4
- Lead
- 17,265
- Total
- 29,518
- vs nation
- D+51.2
- Lead
- 13,872
- Total
- 29,123
- vs nation
- D+50.1
- Lead
- 9,051
- Total
- 24,158
- vs nation
- D+36.9
- Lead
- 7,872
- Total
- 22,013
- vs nation
- D+27.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+64.1MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 69,9382024 5-year
- Population density
- 7,210 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 9.7 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $92,6582024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 61.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 4.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 12.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+64.1 in 2024MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+62.2 in 1904MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 45, OR · twin score 97.6
presidential history
Party record book
Oregon 46th 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
79.9%
31,215 votes · D+63.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 79.7%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
72.3%
1,018 votes · R+62.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1900 · 69.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
31,215votes
79.9% of the vote · D+63.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 27,391 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1952
9,924votes
52.7% of the vote · R+6.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 9,670 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
+65.5pts D vs U.S.
Place D+64.1 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +58.8 pts
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
+42.5pts R vs U.S.
Place R+62.2 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Benjamin Harrison, 1892 · +42.4 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+64, this Portland-area district ranks among the most heavily Democratic legislative seats in Oregon, reflecting the dense urban core electorate that consistently produces outsized partisan gaps.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 64.1 points in 2024 and a Republican high of 62.2 points in 1904. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 0.8 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 64.1 points.
A population of 69,938, a 61% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $92,658 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 45 and Legislative (House) District 46.
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 46th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/41046/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.