- Lead
- 10,305
- Total
- 48,871
- vs nation
- R+19.6
Minnesota 11th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 7,941
- Total
- 47,234
- vs nation
- R+21.3
- Lead
- 6,077
- Total
- 41,596
- vs nation
- R+16.7
- Lead
- 4,151
- Total
- 41,875
- vs nation
- D+6.1
- Lead
- 4,733
- Total
- 42,537
- vs nation
- D+3.9
- Lead
- 4,377
- Total
- 42,339
- vs nation
- D+12.8
- Lead
- 3,014
- Total
- 36,012
- vs nation
- D+7.9
- Lead
- 7,653
- Total
- 31,032
- vs nation
- D+16.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+21.1MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 85,1502024 5-year
- Population density
- 30 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 2,792 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $74,7682024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 86.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.9%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 2.0%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+46.4 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+62.7 in 1904MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 7, MN · twin score 90.8
presidential history
Party record book
Minnesota 11th 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
73.1%
17,761 votes · D+46.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 70.2%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
77.7%
4,158 votes · R+62.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James G. Blaine, 1884 · 68.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
23,094votes
54.3% of the vote · D+11.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John Kerry, 2004 · 23,046 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
29,108votes
59.6% of the vote · R+21.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 27,062 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
+35.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+17.2 · U.S. R+18.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hubert Humphrey, 1968 · +33.2 pts
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
+43.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+62.7 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1900 · +27.4 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 | 39.1%18,653 | 60.9%29,026 | 47,679 |
| 2020 | R | 40.2%14,589 | 59.8%21,693 | 36,282 |
Anchored in Greater Minnesota's rural core, this district delivered a 21.1-point Republican presidential margin in 2024, making it among the state's most lopsided constituencies and a consistent anchor for GOP legislative majorities.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 46.4 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 62.7 points in 1904. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 21.1 points.
A population of 85,150, a 86% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $74,768 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 7 and State Senate District 25.
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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