- Lead
- 40,552
- Total
- 52,548
- vs nation
- D+78.6
Minnesota 61st State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 42,233
- Total
- 55,942
- vs nation
- D+71.0
- Lead
- 35,293
- Total
- 51,777
- vs nation
- D+66.1
- Lead
- 33,123
- Total
- 49,633
- vs nation
- D+62.9
- Lead
- 33,110
- Total
- 48,974
- vs nation
- D+60.3
- Lead
- 28,823
- Total
- 45,962
- vs nation
- D+65.2
- Lead
- 22,417
- Total
- 39,856
- vs nation
- D+55.7
- Lead
- 21,900
- Total
- 37,583
- vs nation
- D+49.8
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+77.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 85,0442024 5-year
- Population density
- 8,099 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 10.5 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $88,8632024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 75.8%2024 5-year
- Black
- 8.8%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 5.1%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+77.2 in 2024MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+26.4 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 63, MN · twin score 98.8
presidential history
Party record book
Minnesota 61st 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
87.1%
45,783 votes · D+77.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 86.8%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
50.8%
1,046 votes · R+16.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 40.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
48,533votes
86.8% of the vote · D+75.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 45,783 votes
Republican
George W. Bush2004
8,320votes
18.1% of the vote · D+62.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 8,304 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
+78.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+77.2 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +71.0 pts
Republican
Calvin Coolidge1924
+1.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+26.4 · U.S. R+25.2 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · −2.9 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 | 67.2%30,924 | 32.8%15,128 | 46,052 |
Minnesota Senate District 61 leans heavily Republican in statewide contests, reflecting the outstate rural shift that has reshaped the Iron Range and surrounding communities over the past decade.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 77.2 points in 2024 and a Republican high of 26.4 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.7 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 77.2 points.
A population of 85,044, a 76% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $88,863 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 63 and State Senate District 64.
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 61st State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/27061/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.