- Lead
- 754
- Total
- 53,900
- vs nation
- D+0.1
Minnesota 3rd State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 33
- Total
- 54,214
- vs nation
- R+4.5
- Lead
- 1,086
- Total
- 49,103
- vs nation
- R+4.3
- Lead
- 8,169
- Total
- 49,822
- vs nation
- D+12.5
- Lead
- 9,470
- Total
- 51,140
- vs nation
- D+11.2
- Lead
- 7,955
- Total
- 51,923
- vs nation
- D+17.8
- Lead
- 4,490
- Total
- 46,977
- vs nation
- D+9.0
- Lead
- 10,121
- Total
- 43,272
- vs nation
- D+14.9
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+1.4MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 84,6642024 5-year
- Population density
- 7.4 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 11,503 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $77,3692024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 90.8%2024 5-year
- Black
- 0.6%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 1.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+44.9 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+69.6 in 1904MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 25, WI · twin score 88.8
presidential history
Party record book
Minnesota 3rd State Senate 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
72.3%
31,754 votes · D+44.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 71.5%
Republican
James G. Blaine1884
81.1%
869 votes · R+62.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · 80.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
31,754votes
72.3% of the vote · D+44.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 29,701 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
26,787votes
49.7% of the vote · R+1.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 26,588 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
Walter Mondale1984
+41.1pts D vs U.S.
Place D+22.9 · U.S. R+18.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hubert Humphrey, 1968 · +35.7 pts
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
+49.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+69.6 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William H. Taft, 1908 · +37.3 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 | 52.1%25,971 | 47.9%23,914 | 49,885 |
The district recorded a Republican presidential margin of R+1.4 in 2024 and D+18.5 in 2008, switching sides at least once in between. About 169,000 residents lived here, with White alone at 90% in the 2024 ACS 5-year.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 44.9 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 69.6 points in 1904. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 1.4 points.
A population of 84,664, a 91% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $77,369 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 25 and State Senate District 7.
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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Minnesota 3rd State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/27003/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.