- Lead
- 1,568
- Total
- 4,047
- vs nation
- D+40.2
Vermont Chittenden-20 State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 1,644
- Total
- 4,098
- vs nation
- D+35.7
- Lead
- 941
- Total
- 3,294
- vs nation
- D+26.5
- Lead
- 845
- Total
- 3,467
- vs nation
- D+20.5
- Lead
- 1,039
- Total
- 3,738
- vs nation
- D+20.5
- Lead
- 507
- Total
- 3,922
- vs nation
- D+15.4
- Lead
- 81
- Total
- 3,653
- vs nation
- D+1.7
- Lead
- 404
- Total
- 3,158
- vs nation
- D+4.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+38.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 8,8172024 5-year
- Population density
- 367 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 24 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $93,6202024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 85.7%2024 5-year
- Black
- 3.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 2.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+40.1 in 2020MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+68.8 in 1896MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Chittenden-13 State House District, VT · twin score 98.9
presidential history
Party record book
Vermont Chittenden-20 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
68.5%
2,808 votes · D+40.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 67.4%
Republican
William McKinley1896
84.1%
302 votes · R+68.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 80.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
2,808votes
68.5% of the vote · D+40.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 2,729 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
1,918votes
62.5% of the vote · R+27.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George H. W. Bush, 1988 · 1,735 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
+40.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+38.7 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +35.7 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+62.7pts R vs U.S.
Place R+68.8 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William H. Taft, 1908 · +46.3 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 Burlington's urban core, Chittenden-20 returned a D+38.7 margin in 2024, reflecting the heavily Democratic preferences of a dense, highly educated city electorate that consistently outpaces even Vermont's statewide Democratic lean.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 40.1 points in 2020 and a Republican high of 68.8 points in 1896. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 38.7 points.
A population of 8,817, a 86% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $93,620 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Chittenden-13 State House District and Chittenden-17 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-20 State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/50C20/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.