- Lead
- 5,117
- Total
- 7,256
- vs nation
- R+69.0
North Dakota 36th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 4,858
- Total
- 7,333
- vs nation
- R+70.7
- Lead
- 4,262
- Total
- 6,323
- vs nation
- R+69.5
- Lead
- 2,977
- Total
- 5,672
- vs nation
- R+56.3
- Lead
- 1,898
- Total
- 5,495
- vs nation
- R+41.8
- Lead
- 2,411
- Total
- 5,186
- vs nation
- R+44.0
- Lead
- 2,053
- Total
- 4,789
- vs nation
- R+43.4
- Lead
- 755
- Total
- 4,090
- vs nation
- R+27.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+70.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 15,9382024 5-year
- Population density
- 10 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 1,530 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $82,5912024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 86.5%2024 5-year
- Black
- 2.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 6.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+48.0 in 1932MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+78.4 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 37, ND · twin score 97.5
presidential history
Party record book
North Dakota 36th 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
74.0%
2,169 votes · D+48.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 64.0%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
89.0%
1,899 votes · R+78.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 84.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1932
2,169votes
74.0% of the vote · D+48.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 1,927 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
6,110votes
84.2% of the vote · R+70.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 5,987 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
Al Smith1928
+30.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+13.3 · U.S. R+17.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · +30.2 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2020
+70.7pts R vs U.S.
Place R+66.2 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · +69.5 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+70.5, this sparsely populated district ranks among the most reliably Republican constituencies in the state, reflecting the rural agrarian character common to western North Dakota.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 48.0 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 78.4 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 70.5 points.
A population of 15,938, a 87% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $82,591 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 37 and State Senate District 39.
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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North Dakota 36th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/38036/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.