- Lead
- 6,930
- Total
- 45,041
- vs nation
- D+16.9
Minnesota 55th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 8,071
- Total
- 47,791
- vs nation
- D+12.4
- Lead
- 2,925
- Total
- 42,689
- vs nation
- D+4.8
- Lead
- 2,878
- Total
- 41,926
- vs nation
- D+3.0
- Lead
- 4,017
- Total
- 40,513
- vs nation
- D+2.6
- Lead
- 752
- Total
- 37,545
- vs nation
- D+4.5
- Lead
- 1,302
- Total
- 30,244
- vs nation
- D+3.8
- Lead
- 4,811
- Total
- 24,992
- vs nation
- D+10.7
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+15.4MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 85,1902024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,476 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 34.4 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $99,9112024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 65.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 13.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 9.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+53.2 in 1932MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+25.8 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 56, MN · twin score 96.9
presidential history
Party record book
Minnesota 55th 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
Franklin D. Roosevelt1932
75.9%
2,365 votes · D+53.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 71.8%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
60.0%
1,143 votes · R+25.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · 52.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
27,328votes
57.2% of the vote · D+16.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 25,347 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
19,257votes
40.3% of the vote · D+16.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Mitt Romney, 2012 · 19,028 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
+51.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+34.4 · U.S. R+17.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · +35.4 pts
Republican
Wendell Willkie1940
+3.3pts R vs U.S.
Place D+6.6 · U.S. D+9.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · −0.4 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 | D | 56.2%26,629 | 43.8%20,792 | 47,421 |
| 2020 | D | 50.4%22,922 | 49.6%22,544 | 45,466 |
Minnesota 55th State Senate District sits in the Upper Midwest. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 53.2 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 25.8 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.5 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 15.4 points.
A population of 85,190, a 65% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $99,911 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 52.
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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