- Lead
- 5,553
- Total
- 7,730
- vs nation
- R+70.4
North Dakota 2nd State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 5,473
- Total
- 7,681
- vs nation
- R+75.7
- Lead
- 4,887
- Total
- 7,201
- vs nation
- R+70.0
- Lead
- 3,029
- Total
- 6,079
- vs nation
- R+53.7
- Lead
- 2,051
- Total
- 5,566
- vs nation
- R+44.1
- Lead
- 2,325
- Total
- 5,926
- vs nation
- R+36.8
- Lead
- 1,837
- Total
- 4,879
- vs nation
- R+38.2
- Lead
- 460
- Total
- 5,213
- vs nation
- R+17.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+71.8MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 16,4672024 5-year
- Population density
- 3.5 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 4,663 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $95,9662024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 86.5%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 6.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+39.4 in 1932MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+71.8 in 2024MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 1, ND · twin score 98.1
presidential history
Party record book
North Dakota 2nd 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
66.4%
6,459 votes · D+39.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 59.0%
Republican
Donald Trump2024
85.0%
6,571 votes · R+71.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 84.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1932
6,459votes
66.4% of the vote · D+39.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 5,570 votes
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
6,721votes
76.4% of the vote · R+60.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 6,571 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
+21.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+39.4 · U.S. D+17.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · +12.1 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2020
+75.7pts R vs U.S.
Place R+71.3 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · +70.4 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+71.8, this rural North Dakota district ranks among the most one-sided in the country, reflecting the consolidation of small-town and agricultural communities around a single political preference.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 39.4 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 71.8 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 0.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 71.8 points.
A population of 16,467, a 87% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $95,966 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 1 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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