- Lead
- 3,038
- Total
- 5,588
- vs nation
- D+55.8
Vermont Washington-Chittenden State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 3,182
- Total
- 5,636
- vs nation
- D+52.0
- Lead
- 2,172
- Total
- 4,915
- vs nation
- D+42.1
- Lead
- 2,124
- Total
- 4,471
- vs nation
- D+43.7
- Lead
- 2,324
- Total
- 4,898
- vs nation
- D+40.2
- Lead
- 1,364
- Total
- 4,582
- vs nation
- D+32.2
- Lead
- 778
- Total
- 4,331
- vs nation
- D+17.4
- Lead
- 1,077
- Total
- 3,835
- vs nation
- D+19.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+54.4MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 8,5952024 5-year
- Population density
- 65 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 133 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $100,7122024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 91.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 0.6%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 1.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+56.5 in 2020MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+53.5 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Chittenden-19 State House District, VT · twin score 99.6
presidential history
Party record book
Vermont Washington-Chittenden 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
76.8%
4,326 votes · D+56.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 75.4%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
71.5%
694 votes · R+44.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · 71.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
4,326votes
76.8% of the vote · D+56.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 4,212 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
1,805votes
52.1% of the vote · R+5.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George H. W. Bush, 1988 · 1,708 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
+55.8pts D vs U.S.
Place D+54.4 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +52.0 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+42.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+48.1 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William H. Taft, 1912 · +29.1 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 Montpelier and surrounding Chittenden-area precincts, this district recorded a 54.4-point Democratic presidential margin in 2024, placing it among the most one-sided state house seats in Vermont.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 56.5 points in 2020 and a Republican high of 53.5 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 54.4 points.
A population of 8,595, a 91% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $100,712 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Chittenden-19 State House District and Chittenden-2 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 Washington-Chittenden State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/50WAC/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.