- Lead
- 18,962
- Total
- 34,850
- vs nation
- D+55.9
Minnesota 65th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 23,032
- Total
- 39,159
- vs nation
- D+54.4
- Lead
- 20,023
- Total
- 35,367
- vs nation
- D+54.5
- Lead
- 19,984
- Total
- 35,375
- vs nation
- D+52.6
- Lead
- 19,741
- Total
- 34,807
- vs nation
- D+49.4
- Lead
- 17,395
- Total
- 33,464
- vs nation
- D+54.4
- Lead
- 13,433
- Total
- 29,426
- vs nation
- D+45.1
- Lead
- 14,274
- Total
- 28,031
- vs nation
- D+42.4
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+54.4MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 84,8242024 5-year
- Population density
- 6,147 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 13.8 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $65,1322024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 41.8%2024 5-year
- Black
- 23.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 13.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+71.6 in 1876MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+19.0 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 59, MN · twin score 96.6
presidential history
Party record book
Minnesota 65th 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
85.8%
537 votes · D+71.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 82.7%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
54.0%
1,084 votes · R+16.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 42.0%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
30,629votes
78.2% of the vote · D+58.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 27,207 votes
Republican
George W. Bush2004
7,812votes
23.3% of the vote · D+52.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 7,597 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
+66.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+48.4 · U.S. R+18.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George McGovern, 1972 · +61.4 pts
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
−3.4pts R vs U.S.
Place R+16.2 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · −6.2 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Minnesota 65th State Senate District sits in the Upper Midwest. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 71.6 points in 1876 and a Republican high of 19.0 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 54.4 points.
A population of 84,824, a 42% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $65,132 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 66.
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 65th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/27065/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.