- Lead
- 10,195
- Total
- 23,432
- vs nation
- D+45.0
Vermont Windham Senatorial District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 11,430
- Total
- 23,571
- vs nation
- D+44.0
- Lead
- 8,404
- Total
- 20,520
- vs nation
- D+38.9
- Lead
- 10,055
- Total
- 19,872
- vs nation
- D+46.7
- Lead
- 10,927
- Total
- 21,808
- vs nation
- D+42.8
- Lead
- 7,903
- Total
- 20,976
- vs nation
- D+40.1
- Lead
- 4,024
- Total
- 19,240
- vs nation
- D+20.4
- Lead
- 5,009
- Total
- 16,963
- vs nation
- D+21.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+43.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 41,2642024 5-year
- Population density
- 65 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 639 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $71,4202024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 89.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 2.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+50.6 in 2012MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+71.9 in 1896MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Windsor Senatorial District, VT · twin score 96.2
presidential history
Party record book
Vermont Windham 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 Obama2008
74.0%
16,138 votes · D+50.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 74.0%
Republican
William McKinley1896
83.5%
4,176 votes · R+71.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 82.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
17,115votes
72.6% of the vote · D+48.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 16,297 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
8,632votes
79.0% of the vote · R+58.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 8,542 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
Barack Obama2012
+46.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+50.6 · U.S. D+3.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · +45.0 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+65.8pts R vs U.S.
Place R+71.9 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Alf Landon, 1936 · +54.6 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 Brattleboro and the Connecticut River valley, Windham delivered a 43.5-point Democratic presidential margin in 2024, making it among the most lopsided legislative districts in a state already tilted heavily toward Democrats.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 50.6 points in 2012 and a Republican high of 71.9 points in 1896. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 5.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 43.5 points.
A population of 41,264, a 89% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $71,420 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Windsor Senatorial District and Lamoille 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 Windham Senatorial District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/50WDH/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.