- Lead
- 6,330
- Total
- 8,748
- vs nation
- R+70.9
North Dakota 39th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 6,257
- Total
- 8,827
- vs nation
- R+75.3
- Lead
- 5,784
- Total
- 8,247
- vs nation
- R+72.2
- Lead
- 4,639
- Total
- 7,907
- vs nation
- R+62.5
- Lead
- 3,185
- Total
- 7,332
- vs nation
- R+50.7
- Lead
- 4,094
- Total
- 7,598
- vs nation
- R+51.4
- Lead
- 3,757
- Total
- 6,926
- vs nation
- R+54.8
- Lead
- 1,686
- Total
- 6,762
- vs nation
- R+33.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+72.4MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 15,7492024 5-year
- Population density
- 2.2 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 7,133 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $85,1342024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 92.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 0.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 2.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+32.8 in 1932MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+75.4 in 1892MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 8, ND · twin score 97.6
presidential history
Party record book
North Dakota 39th 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
63.9%
7,534 votes · D+32.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 55.6%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
86.6%
374 votes · R+75.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 85.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1932
7,534votes
63.9% of the vote · D+32.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 6,309 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1952
7,820votes
76.5% of the vote · R+53.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 7,464 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
+15.0pts D vs U.S.
Place D+32.8 · U.S. D+17.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1916 · +6.1 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+77.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+75.4 · U.S. D+1.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · +75.3 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 39th State Senate District sits in the Northern Plains. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 32.8 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 75.4 points in 1892. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.5 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 72.4 points.
A population of 15,749, a 92% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $85,134 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 8 and State Senate District 36.
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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