- Lead
- 4,617
- Total
- 56,634
- vs nation
- D+9.6
Minnesota 37th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 3,496
- Total
- 56,171
- vs nation
- D+1.8
- Lead
- 2,371
- Total
- 49,051
- vs nation
- R+6.9
- Lead
- 8,526
- Total
- 51,462
- vs nation
- R+20.4
- Lead
- 7,546
- Total
- 49,925
- vs nation
- R+22.4
- Lead
- 12,350
- Total
- 50,677
- vs nation
- R+21.9
- Lead
- 12,496
- Total
- 45,850
- vs nation
- R+27.8
- Lead
- 7,246
- Total
- 40,272
- vs nation
- R+26.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+8.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 85,8372024 5-year
- Population density
- 589 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 146 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $133,2362024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 79.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 5.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 3.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+8.2 in 2024MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+78.6 in 1904MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 42, MN · twin score 94.4
presidential history
Party record book
Minnesota 37th 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
Kamala Harris2024
52.8%
29,892 votes · D+8.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 51.9%
Republican
James A. Garfield1880
84.0%
1,084 votes · R+70.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · 83.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
29,892votes
52.8% of the vote · D+8.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 29,175 votes
Republican
George W. Bush2004
31,227votes
61.6% of the vote · R+24.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 31,061 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
Kamala Harris2024
+9.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+8.2 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +1.8 pts
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
+59.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+78.6 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1900 · +55.3 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 | 67.2%31,213 | 32.8%15,269 | 46,482 |
Minnesota 37th State Senate District sits in the Upper Midwest. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 8.2 points in 2024 and a Republican high of 78.6 points in 1904. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.9 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 8.2 points.
A population of 85,837, a 80% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $133,236 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 42 and State Senate District 45.
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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