- Lead
- 6,772
- Total
- 10,412
- vs nation
- R+63.6
North Dakota 8th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 6,164
- Total
- 9,683
- vs nation
- R+68.1
- Lead
- 5,863
- Total
- 8,950
- vs nation
- R+67.6
- Lead
- 4,386
- Total
- 7,984
- vs nation
- R+58.8
- Lead
- 3,492
- Total
- 7,567
- vs nation
- R+53.4
- Lead
- 4,155
- Total
- 7,630
- vs nation
- R+52.0
- Lead
- 3,763
- Total
- 6,964
- vs nation
- R+54.6
- Lead
- 2,136
- Total
- 6,258
- vs nation
- R+42.7
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+65.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 17,3852024 5-year
- Population density
- 8.3 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 2,095 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $102,9832024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 92.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 0.4%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 1.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+44.8 in 1932MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+82.7 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 30, ND · twin score 98.7
presidential history
Party record book
North Dakota 8th 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
72.0%
3,744 votes · D+44.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 57.5%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
90.3%
3,793 votes · R+82.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 86.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1932
3,744votes
72.0% of the vote · D+44.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 3,218 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
8,466votes
81.3% of the vote · R+65.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 7,797 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
+27.1pts D vs U.S.
Place D+44.8 · U.S. D+17.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Al Smith, 1928 · +15.4 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+73.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+71.4 · U.S. D+1.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · +68.1 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.
With a 2024 presidential margin of R+65.1, this sparsely populated district ranks among the state's most one-sided, reflecting the deep rural conservatism of western North Dakota's agricultural and energy-producing communities.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 44.8 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 82.7 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 65.0 points.
A population of 17,385, a 92% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $102,983 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 30 and State Senate District 7.
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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