- Lead
- 23,215
- Total
- 39,648
- vs nation
- D+60.0
Minnesota 66th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 26,184
- Total
- 42,879
- vs nation
- D+56.6
- Lead
- 22,629
- Total
- 39,062
- vs nation
- D+55.8
- Lead
- 22,377
- Total
- 39,408
- vs nation
- D+52.9
- Lead
- 21,886
- Total
- 39,163
- vs nation
- D+48.6
- Lead
- 19,174
- Total
- 37,745
- vs nation
- D+53.3
- Lead
- 14,576
- Total
- 33,459
- vs nation
- D+43.0
- Lead
- 15,729
- Total
- 32,028
- vs nation
- D+40.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+58.6MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 84,3502024 5-year
- Population density
- 5,143 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 16.4 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $72,2872024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 51.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 14.9%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 7.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+61.2 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+24.7 in 1904MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 65, MN · twin score 96.0
presidential history
Party record book
Minnesota 66th 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
80.5%
22,008 votes · D+61.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 79.3%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
57.8%
1,718 votes · R+24.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 45.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
34,001votes
79.3% of the vote · D+61.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 30,824 votes
Republican
George W. Bush2004
9,033votes
23.9% of the vote · D+50.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 8,858 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
+62.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+44.5 · U.S. R+18.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · +60.0 pts
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
+5.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+24.7 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · −2.1 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 | 71.2%29,136 | 28.8%11,771 | 40,907 |
With a 2024 presidential margin of D+58.5, this Minneapolis-area district ranks among the most reliably blue constituencies in the state, reflecting the dense urban demography typical of core metro legislative seats.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 61.2 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 24.7 points in 1904. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.5 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 58.6 points.
A population of 84,350, a 51% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $72,287 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 65 and Legislative (Senate) District 37.
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 66th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/27066/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.