- Lead
- 25,793
- Total
- 33,977
- vs nation
- D+77.4
Minnesota 62nd State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 33,754
- Total
- 40,832
- vs nation
- D+78.2
- Lead
- 28,405
- Total
- 37,688
- vs nation
- D+74.7
- Lead
- 27,791
- Total
- 35,318
- vs nation
- D+74.8
- Lead
- 27,667
- Total
- 34,952
- vs nation
- D+71.9
- Lead
- 24,660
- Total
- 32,484
- vs nation
- D+78.4
- Lead
- 19,533
- Total
- 28,192
- vs nation
- D+68.8
- Lead
- 17,285
- Total
- 27,310
- vs nation
- D+59.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+75.9MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 85,2412024 5-year
- Population density
- 12,723 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 6.7 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $61,4192024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 42.8%2024 5-year
- Black
- 25.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 21.1%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+95.6 in 1876MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+11.3 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 59, MN · twin score 95.9
presidential history
Party record book
Minnesota 62nd 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
Samuel J. Tilden1876
97.8%
535 votes · D+95.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Winfield S. Hancock, 1880 · 94.2%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
31.1%
417 votes · D+13.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 27.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
36,828votes
90.2% of the vote · D+82.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 31,681 votes
Republican
George W. Bush2004
3,655votes
11.3% of the vote · D+75.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 3,654 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
Walter Mondale1984
+86.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+68.6 · U.S. R+18.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George McGovern, 1972 · +85.9 pts
Republican
Calvin Coolidge1924
−13.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+11.3 · U.S. R+25.2 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William H. Taft, 1912 · −28.0 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
With a 2024 presidential margin of D+75.9, this district ranks among the most lopsided in the state, suggesting a dense urban core where competitive legislative races are effectively nonexistent.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 95.6 points in 1876 and a Republican high of 11.3 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 6.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 75.9 points.
A population of 85,241, a 43% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $61,419 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 59 and State Senate District 20.
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 62nd State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/27062/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.