- Lead
- 22,123
- Total
- 49,127
- vs nation
- D+46.5
Minnesota 43rd State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 22,061
- Total
- 51,818
- vs nation
- D+38.1
- Lead
- 15,521
- Total
- 46,581
- vs nation
- D+31.2
- Lead
- 11,816
- Total
- 46,820
- vs nation
- D+21.4
- Lead
- 12,287
- Total
- 45,494
- vs nation
- D+19.7
- Lead
- 8,015
- Total
- 44,451
- vs nation
- D+20.5
- Lead
- 4,917
- Total
- 39,427
- vs nation
- D+12.0
- Lead
- 7,084
- Total
- 36,016
- vs nation
- D+11.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+45.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 85,3062024 5-year
- Population density
- 3,412 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 25 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $90,9732024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 68.5%2024 5-year
- Black
- 14.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 6.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+45.0 in 2024MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+68.0 in 1904MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 46, MN · twin score 96.6
presidential history
Party record book
Minnesota 43rd 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
71.2%
34,996 votes · D+45.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 70.0%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
77.3%
2,211 votes · R+68.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James A. Garfield, 1880 · 74.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
36,254votes
70.0% of the vote · D+42.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 34,996 votes
Republican
George W. Bush2004
17,868votes
40.2% of the vote · D+18.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 17,781 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
+46.5pts D vs U.S.
Place D+45.0 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +38.1 pts
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
+48.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+68.0 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · +28.0 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%31,020 | 32.8%15,174 | 46,194 |
Minnesota 43rd State Senate District sits in the Upper Midwest. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 45.0 points in 2024 and a Republican high of 68.0 points in 1904. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.5 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 45.0 points.
A population of 85,306, a 69% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $90,973 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 46 and State Senate District 51.
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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