- Lead
- 2,579
- Total
- 38,344
- vs nation
- D+8.2
Oregon 52nd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 3,890
- Total
- 39,989
- vs nation
- D+5.3
- Lead
- 1,358
- Total
- 33,763
- vs nation
- D+1.9
- Lead
- 893
- Total
- 30,862
- vs nation
- R+1.0
- Lead
- 2,475
- Total
- 31,193
- vs nation
- D+0.7
- Lead
- 2,008
- Total
- 32,660
- vs nation
- R+3.7
- Lead
- 3,067
- Total
- 28,227
- vs nation
- R+11.4
- Lead
- 189
- Total
- 25,613
- vs nation
- R+9.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+6.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 70,1672024 5-year
- Population density
- 59 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 1,198 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $86,7782024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 72.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 0.4%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 19.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+23.9 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+54.8 in 1904MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 50, OR · twin score 84.7
presidential history
Party record book
Oregon 52nd 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
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
59.4%
6,906 votes · D+23.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 56.8%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
71.1%
7,311 votes · R+43.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 70.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
21,275votes
53.2% of the vote · D+9.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 19,752 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
17,600votes
63.4% of the vote · R+27.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 17,385 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
+8.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+6.7 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +5.3 pts
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
+35.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+54.8 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Benjamin Harrison, 1892 · +32.6 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.
Oregon House District 52 sits within the mid-Willamette Valley, where its 2024 presidential margin of D+6.7 points signals a competitive lean that makes it a persistent target for both major parties in legislative cycles.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 23.9 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 54.8 points in 1904. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 6.7 points.
A population of 70,167, a 72% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $86,778 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 50 and State House District 57.
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 52nd State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/41052/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.