- Lead
- 968
- Total
- 3,826
- vs nation
- D+26.8
Vermont Washington-3 State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 1,082
- Total
- 3,807
- vs nation
- D+24.0
- Lead
- 562
- Total
- 3,216
- vs nation
- D+15.4
- Lead
- 841
- Total
- 3,239
- vs nation
- D+22.1
- Lead
- 866
- Total
- 3,567
- vs nation
- D+17.0
- Lead
- 337
- Total
- 3,819
- vs nation
- D+11.3
- Lead
- 78
- Total
- 3,634
- vs nation
- R+2.7
- Lead
- 364
- Total
- 3,057
- vs nation
- D+3.4
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+25.3MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 8,4912024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,123 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 4 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $65,6252024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 87.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 3.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+28.4 in 2020MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+68.1 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Washington-1 State House District, VT · twin score 99.7
presidential history
Party record book
Vermont Washington-3 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
62.5%
2,380 votes · D+28.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 61.6%
Republican
Calvin Coolidge1924
80.9%
1,244 votes · R+68.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 80.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
2,380votes
62.5% of the vote · D+28.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 2,322 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
2,034votes
63.1% of the vote · R+26.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George H. W. Bush, 1988 · 1,978 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
+26.8pts D vs U.S.
Place D+25.3 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +24.0 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+55.2pts R vs U.S.
Place R+61.3 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1932 · +51.2 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.
| Year | Vote lead | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | D | 76.2%2,797 | 23.8%875 | 3,672 |
Washington-3 backed Biden by 28 points in 2020, reflecting the reliably Democratic lean of Vermont's central region, where small college-town influence and rural Democratic voters combine to produce some of the state's widest presidential margins.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 28.4 points in 2020 and a Republican high of 68.1 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 25.3 points.
A population of 8,491, a 87% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $65,625 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Washington-1 State House District and Washington-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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