- Lead
- 4,102
- Total
- 6,560
- vs nation
- R+61.1
North Dakota 1st State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 3,523
- Total
- 5,722
- vs nation
- R+66.0
- Lead
- 3,280
- Total
- 5,387
- vs nation
- R+63.0
- Lead
- 1,905
- Total
- 4,018
- vs nation
- R+51.3
- Lead
- 1,230
- Total
- 3,839
- vs nation
- R+39.3
- Lead
- 1,470
- Total
- 3,598
- vs nation
- R+38.4
- Lead
- 1,131
- Total
- 3,244
- vs nation
- R+35.4
- Lead
- 103
- Total
- 3,343
- vs nation
- R+11.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+62.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 15,9762024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,299 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 12.3 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $88,8112024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 77.8%2024 5-year
- Black
- 4.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 7.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+55.8 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+62.5 in 2024MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 2, ND · twin score 98.1
presidential history
Party record book
North Dakota 1st State Senate District · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 · 34 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1932
74.6%
2,241 votes · D+53.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 69.0%
Republican
Donald Trump2024
79.9%
5,240 votes · R+62.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 79.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
2,523votes
67.0% of the vote · D+34.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 2,292 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
5,240votes
79.9% of the vote · R+62.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 4,527 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
Franklin D. Roosevelt1932
+36.0pts D vs U.S.
Place D+53.8 · U.S. D+17.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · +31.5 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2020
+66.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+61.6 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · +63.0 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.
With a 2024 presidential margin of R+62.5, this rural district in North Dakota sits among the most one-sided constituencies in the state, reflecting the deep Republican alignment characteristic of the region's agricultural communities.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 55.8 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 62.5 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 62.5 points.
A population of 15,976, a 78% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $88,811 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 2 and State Senate District 38.
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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