- Lead
- 5,614
- Total
- 81,965
- vs nation
- R+5.4
Oregon 26th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 2,857
- Total
- 83,658
- vs nation
- R+7.9
- Lead
- 4,389
- Total
- 68,956
- vs nation
- R+8.5
- Lead
- 5,738
- Total
- 62,248
- vs nation
- R+13.1
- Lead
- 2,083
- Total
- 62,471
- vs nation
- R+10.6
- Lead
- 10,574
- Total
- 65,468
- vs nation
- R+13.7
- Lead
- 9,728
- Total
- 55,390
- vs nation
- R+18.1
- Lead
- 4,173
- Total
- 49,455
- vs nation
- R+17.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+6.8MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 141,3902024 5-year
- Population density
- 99 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 1,422 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $93,7392024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 76.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 0.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 15.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+22.3 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+57.9 in 1904MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 16, OR · twin score 88.3
presidential history
Party record book
Oregon 26th State Senate District · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 (partial returns from 1876) · 38 presidential cycles · 38 with a vote-share denominator · 34 with a national benchmark
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
58.5%
8,670 votes · D+22.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 54.6%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
71.9%
2,875 votes · R+57.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 71.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
39,005votes
46.6% of the vote · R+3.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 36,689 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
42,303votes
51.6% of the vote · R+6.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 41,862 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. Roosevelt1936
−2.0pts D vs U.S.
Place D+22.3 · U.S. D+24.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · −5.4 pts
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
+38.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+57.9 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Benjamin Harrison, 1892 · +35.9 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.
Oregon Senate District 26 sits within the Portland metro, where dense urban precincts and a highly educated electorate have consistently returned Democratic candidates by margins exceeding 20 points in recent presidential cycles.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 22.3 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 57.9 points in 1904. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 6.8 points.
A population of 141,390, a 76% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $93,739 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 16 and State Senate District 6.
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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Oregon 26th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/41026/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.