- Lead
- 14,565
- Total
- 51,177
- vs nation
- D+29.9
Minnesota 52nd State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 15,153
- Total
- 53,775
- vs nation
- D+23.7
- Lead
- 8,384
- Total
- 48,602
- vs nation
- D+15.2
- Lead
- 8,010
- Total
- 48,166
- vs nation
- D+12.8
- Lead
- 9,044
- Total
- 47,180
- vs nation
- D+11.9
- Lead
- 5,339
- Total
- 44,669
- vs nation
- D+14.4
- Lead
- 4,672
- Total
- 37,854
- vs nation
- D+11.8
- Lead
- 8,076
- Total
- 32,692
- vs nation
- D+16.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+28.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 85,3372024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,017 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 42.3 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $105,6932024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 71.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 9.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 6.1%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+46.0 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+23.8 in 1904MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 56, MN · twin score 97.3
presidential history
Party record book
Minnesota 52nd 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
72.8%
6,719 votes · D+46.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 71.3%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
59.0%
500 votes · R+23.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 57.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
33,781votes
62.8% of the vote · D+28.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 32,208 votes
Republican
Mitt Romney2012
19,498votes
40.5% of the vote · D+16.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · 19,402 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
Al Smith1928
+39.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+22.2 · U.S. R+17.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Harry S. Truman, 1948 · +36.9 pts
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
+4.2pts R vs U.S.
Place R+23.8 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · −1.9 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 | 60.1%28,597 | 39.9%19,007 | 47,604 |
| 2020 | D | 54.5%25,184 | 45.5%21,038 | 46,222 |
With a 2024 presidential margin of D+28.5, this district ranks among the most reliably Democratic state senate seats in Minnesota, suggesting a dense urban or inner-suburban electorate that has moved decisively leftward over recent cycles.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 46.0 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 23.8 points in 1904. The 2024 margin was 28.5 points.
A population of 85,337, a 71% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $105,693 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 56 and State Senate District 55.
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 52nd State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/27052/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.