- Lead
- 1,824
- Total
- 4,273
- vs nation
- R+41.2
Wyoming 42nd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 1,601
- Total
- 4,146
- vs nation
- R+43.1
- Lead
- 1,503
- Total
- 3,604
- vs nation
- R+43.8
- Lead
- 1,203
- Total
- 3,190
- vs nation
- R+41.6
- Lead
- 1,152
- Total
- 3,333
- vs nation
- R+41.8
- Lead
- 1,420
- Total
- 3,119
- vs nation
- R+43.1
- Lead
- 1,119
- Total
- 2,862
- vs nation
- R+39.6
- Lead
- 625
- Total
- 3,002
- vs nation
- R+30.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+42.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 8,9992024 5-year
- Population density
- 17 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 519 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $107,5282024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 78.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 3.4%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 10.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+11.6 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+57.7 in 1904MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 10, WY · twin score 96.8
presidential history
Party record book
Wyoming 42nd State House District · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 · 34 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
55.7%
905 votes · D+11.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 52.9%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
72.7%
1,262 votes · R+46.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 72.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
1,201votes
29.0% of the vote · R+38.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 1,174 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
2,998votes
70.2% of the vote · R+42.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 2,802 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
John W. Davis1924
−3.4pts D vs U.S.
Place R+28.6 · U.S. R+25.2 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Harry S. Truman, 1948 · −9.1 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2016
+43.8pts R vs U.S.
Place R+41.7 · U.S. D+2.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · +43.1 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.
| Year | Vote lead | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | R | 32.2%1,148 | 67.8%2,412 | 3,560 |
| 2020 | R | 33.4%1,234 | 66.6%2,461 | 3,695 |
Wyoming 42nd State House District sits in the Northern Rockies. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 11.6 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 57.7 points in 1904. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 42.7 points.
A population of 8,999, a 78% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $107,528 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 10 and State House District 9.
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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