- Lead
- 17,957
- Total
- 51,514
- vs nation
- R+33.4
Minnesota 9th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 16,890
- Total
- 51,163
- vs nation
- R+37.5
- Lead
- 16,201
- Total
- 46,296
- vs nation
- R+37.1
- Lead
- 8,287
- Total
- 45,220
- vs nation
- R+22.2
- Lead
- 4,762
- Total
- 46,737
- vs nation
- R+17.5
- Lead
- 9,954
- Total
- 46,473
- vs nation
- R+19.0
- Lead
- 9,556
- Total
- 41,657
- vs nation
- R+23.5
- Lead
- 811
- Total
- 38,658
- vs nation
- R+10.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+34.9MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 84,6392024 5-year
- Population density
- 20 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 4,186 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $73,1942024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 91.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 3.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+23.3 in 1932MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+62.7 in 1904MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 5, MN · twin score 93.5
presidential history
Party record book
Minnesota 9th 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
Franklin D. Roosevelt1932
60.0%
17,801 votes · D+23.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 54.2%
Republican
Rutherford B. Hayes1876
78.9%
2,240 votes · R+58.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James A. Garfield, 1880 · 78.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
20,419votes
43.7% of the vote · R+10.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Jimmy Carter, 1976 · 20,231 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
34,225votes
66.4% of the vote · R+34.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 33,547 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
William J. Bryan1896
+14.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+8.1 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George McGovern, 1972 · +6.8 pts
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
+43.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+62.7 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · +37.5 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 | 30.5%14,993 | 69.5%34,219 | 49,212 |
| 2020 | R | 41.8%19,528 | 58.2%27,217 | 46,745 |
Covering a largely rural swath of the state, this district delivered a 35-point presidential margin in 2024, making it among the most lopsided in Minnesota's upper chamber and a reliable anchor for statewide Republican vote totals.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 23.3 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 62.7 points in 1904. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 34.9 points.
A population of 84,639, a 91% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $73,194 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 5 and State Senate District 22.
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 9th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/27009/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.