- Lead
- 1,433
- Total
- 47,197
- vs nation
- D+4.5
Minnesota 35th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 2,039
- Total
- 48,233
- vs nation
- R+0.2
- Lead
- 2,493
- Total
- 43,771
- vs nation
- R+7.8
- Lead
- 717
- Total
- 43,962
- vs nation
- R+2.2
- Lead
- 820
- Total
- 42,877
- vs nation
- R+5.4
- Lead
- 937
- Total
- 40,862
- vs nation
- D+0.2
- Lead
- 1,095
- Total
- 34,296
- vs nation
- D+2.7
- Lead
- 6,236
- Total
- 29,730
- vs nation
- D+12.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+3.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 85,4082024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,791 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 30.6 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $89,2732024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 75.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 9.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 4.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+44.5 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+65.2 in 1904MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 32, MN · twin score 92.3
presidential history
Party record book
Minnesota 35th 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
72.1%
7,770 votes · D+44.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Harry S. Truman, 1948 · 65.7%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
81.4%
372 votes · R+65.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 70.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
24,475votes
50.7% of the vote · D+4.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 23,697 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
22,436votes
46.5% of the vote · D+4.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 22,264 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
+32.8pts D vs U.S.
Place D+32.1 · U.S. R+0.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Adlai Stevenson, 1956 · +30.9 pts
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
+45.5pts R vs U.S.
Place R+65.2 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1900 · +33.4 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 | 45.4%21,140 | 54.6%25,406 | 46,546 |
| 2020 | R | 42.6%19,596 | 57.4%26,422 | 46,018 |
Minnesota 35th State Senate District sits in the Upper Midwest. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 44.5 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 65.2 points in 1904. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 3.0 points.
A population of 85,408, a 75% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $89,273 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 32 and State Senate District 36.
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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