- Lead
- 2,932
- Total
- 6,130
- vs nation
- R+46.4
North Dakota 3rd State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 3,115
- Total
- 6,451
- vs nation
- R+52.7
- Lead
- 3,174
- Total
- 6,522
- vs nation
- R+50.8
- Lead
- 1,949
- Total
- 6,000
- vs nation
- R+36.3
- Lead
- 1,350
- Total
- 6,006
- vs nation
- R+29.7
- Lead
- 2,156
- Total
- 6,059
- vs nation
- R+33.1
- Lead
- 1,668
- Total
- 5,322
- vs nation
- R+31.9
- Lead
- 540
- Total
- 5,202
- vs nation
- R+18.9
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+47.8MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 15,7962024 5-year
- Population density
- 111 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 143 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $81,4762024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 78.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 3.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 7.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+37.7 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+65.1 in 1904MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 38, ND · twin score 99.0
presidential history
Party record book
North Dakota 3rd 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
62.7%
1,863 votes · D+27.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 60.5%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
79.9%
1,055 votes · R+65.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1900 · 74.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
2,424votes
59.3% of the vote · D+18.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 2,257 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
4,659votes
72.2% of the vote · R+48.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · 4,463 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
Woodrow Wilson1916
+16.8pts D vs U.S.
Place D+19.9 · U.S. D+3.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · +13.4 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+61.4pts R vs U.S.
Place R+59.7 · U.S. D+1.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · +52.7 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.
North Dakota 3rd State Senate District sits in the Northern Plains. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 37.7 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 65.1 points in 1904. The 2024 margin was 47.8 points.
A population of 15,796, a 79% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $81,476 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 38 and State Senate District 5.
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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