- Lead
- 1,726
- Total
- 2,871
- vs nation
- D+61.6
Vermont Chittenden-5 State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 1,799
- Total
- 2,926
- vs nation
- D+57.0
- Lead
- 1,299
- Total
- 2,599
- vs nation
- D+47.9
- Lead
- 1,153
- Total
- 2,385
- vs nation
- D+44.5
- Lead
- 1,329
- Total
- 2,600
- vs nation
- D+43.8
- Lead
- 853
- Total
- 2,356
- vs nation
- D+38.7
- Lead
- 536
- Total
- 2,159
- vs nation
- D+24.3
- Lead
- 639
- Total
- 1,928
- vs nation
- D+24.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+60.1MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 3,9962024 5-year
- Population density
- 92 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 43.4 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $140,8962024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 90.5%2024 5-year
- Black
- 0.6%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 2.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+61.5 in 2020MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+48.0 in 1896MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Chittenden-7 State House District, VT · twin score 99.8
presidential history
Party record book
Vermont Chittenden-5 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
79.2%
2,317 votes · D+61.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 78.2%
Republican
William McKinley1896
73.1%
128 votes · R+48.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 70.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
2,317votes
79.2% of the vote · D+61.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 2,244 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
817votes
50.3% of the vote · R+1.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George H. W. Bush, 1988 · 740 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
+61.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+60.1 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +57.0 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+41.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+48.0 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · +19.8 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 Burlington's urban core, Chittenden-5 recorded a 60.1-point Democratic presidential margin in 2024, reflecting a dense, highly educated electorate that has consistently delivered lopsided results in statewide contests.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 61.5 points in 2020 and a Republican high of 48.0 points in 1896. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 60.1 points.
A population of 3,996, a 91% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $140,896 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Chittenden-7 State House District and Chittenden-4 State House District.
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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Vermont Chittenden-5 State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/50C-5/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.