- Lead
- 15,195
- Total
- 76,381
- vs nation
- D+21.4
Massachusetts Second Worcester District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 22,372
- Total
- 79,988
- vs nation
- D+23.5
- Lead
- 14,272
- Total
- 72,801
- vs nation
- D+17.5
- Lead
- 12,870
- Total
- 67,232
- vs nation
- D+15.3
- Lead
- 15,934
- Total
- 67,642
- vs nation
- D+16.3
- Lead
- 15,126
- Total
- 63,382
- vs nation
- D+26.3
- Lead
- 16,401
- Total
- 57,718
- vs nation
- D+27.9
- Lead
- 20,053
- Total
- 54,489
- vs nation
- D+28.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+19.9MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 166,9762024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,577 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 106 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $109,6882024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 63.8%2024 5-year
- Black
- 6.4%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 10.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+61.5 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+47.4 in 1896MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Bristol and Norfolk District, MA · twin score 86.3
presidential history
Party record book
Massachusetts Second Worcester 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
80.6%
42,492 votes · D+61.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hubert Humphrey, 1968 · 68.0%
Republican
William McKinley1896
70.6%
5,864 votes · R+47.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 64.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
50,197votes
62.8% of the vote · D+28.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 44,651 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
29,456votes
38.6% of the vote · D+19.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 27,825 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
Hubert Humphrey1968
+39.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+39.0 · U.S. R+0.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George McGovern, 1972 · +39.4 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+41.4pts R vs U.S.
Place R+47.4 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William H. Taft, 1912 · +23.9 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 | D | 100.0%50,982 | 0.0%0 | 50,982 |
| 2020 | D | 68.9%52,446 | 31.1%23,658 | 76,104 |
Anchored by Worcester's academic and medical institutions, the Second Worcester District posts presidential margins well above the statewide average, reflecting a population dense with younger renters, graduate students, and healthcare workers.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 61.5 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 47.4 points in 1896. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 8.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 19.9 points.
A population of 166,976, a 64% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $109,688 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Bristol and Norfolk District and Norfolk-Plymouth-Bristol District.
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 Second Worcester District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/25D08/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.