- Lead
- 5,410
- Total
- 23,211
- vs nation
- D+24.8
Vermont Bennington Senatorial District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 6,488
- Total
- 22,926
- vs nation
- D+23.8
- Lead
- 4,096
- Total
- 19,495
- vs nation
- D+18.9
- Lead
- 6,451
- Total
- 19,658
- vs nation
- D+29.0
- Lead
- 7,052
- Total
- 21,402
- vs nation
- D+25.7
- Lead
- 3,759
- Total
- 21,405
- vs nation
- D+20.0
- Lead
- 1,674
- Total
- 19,928
- vs nation
- D+7.9
- Lead
- 3,066
- Total
- 18,104
- vs nation
- D+8.4
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+23.3MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 41,9612024 5-year
- Population density
- 51 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 822 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $74,1432024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 90.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 2.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+33.0 in 2008MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+67.0 in 1896MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Addison Senatorial District, VT · twin score 93.8
presidential history
Party record book
Vermont Bennington Senatorial 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
Barack Obama2012
65.3%
12,837 votes · D+32.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 65.3%
Republican
William McKinley1896
81.7%
3,739 votes · R+67.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 77.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
14,357votes
62.6% of the vote · D+28.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 13,971 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
10,373votes
59.8% of the vote · R+21.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 9,781 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
James M. Cox1920
+40.8pts D vs U.S.
Place D+14.6 · U.S. R+26.2 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · +29.0 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+60.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+67.0 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1900 · +46.2 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.
Anchored by Bennington County's mix of small industrial towns and rural hill communities, this district backed the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee by 23.5 points, reflecting a consistent lean that has held across recent election cycles.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 33.0 points in 2008 and a Republican high of 67.0 points in 1896. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 5.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 23.3 points.
A population of 41,961, a 91% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $74,143 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Addison Senatorial District and Windham Senatorial District.
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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Vermont Bennington Senatorial District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/50BEN/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.