- Lead
- 31,377
- Total
- 94,099
- vs nation
- D+34.8
Massachusetts Berkshire-Hampden-Franklin-Hampshire District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 39,128
- Total
- 96,685
- vs nation
- D+36.0
- Lead
- 30,136
- Total
- 90,272
- vs nation
- D+31.3
- Lead
- 39,024
- Total
- 86,209
- vs nation
- D+41.4
- Lead
- 39,649
- Total
- 88,310
- vs nation
- D+37.6
- Lead
- 34,512
- Total
- 86,453
- vs nation
- D+42.4
- Lead
- 23,848
- Total
- 79,066
- vs nation
- D+29.6
- Lead
- 30,304
- Total
- 79,488
- vs nation
- D+29.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+33.3MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 167,2882024 5-year
- Population density
- 102 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 1,647 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $80,4052024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 86.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 2.4%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 4.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+47.5 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+49.1 in 1896MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Hampshire-Franklin-Worcester District, MA · twin score 89.3
presidential history
Party record book
Massachusetts Berkshire-Hampden-Franklin-Hampshire 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
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
73.5%
58,221 votes · D+47.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 71.5%
Republican
William McKinley1896
70.7%
12,460 votes · R+49.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 66.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
66,762votes
69.1% of the vote · D+40.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 62,841 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
54,215votes
64.0% of the vote · R+28.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 50,594 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 Kerry2004
+42.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+39.9 · U.S. R+2.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · +41.4 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+43.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+49.1 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William H. Taft, 1912 · +24.1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | D | 97.0%71,590 | 3.0%2,208 | 73,798 |
Stretching from the Berkshire hills east through the Pioneer Valley, this district combines rural college towns with post-industrial cities, producing presidential margins that have exceeded 30 points in recent cycles.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 47.5 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 49.1 points in 1896. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 7.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 33.3 points.
A population of 167,288, a 86% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $80,405 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Hampshire-Franklin-Worcester District and State Senate District 20.
The state-senate 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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Massachusetts Berkshire-Hampden-Franklin-Hampshire District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/25D01/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.