United States presidential elections in Minnesota

Presidential elections in Minnesota

Number of elections	42
Voted Democratic	21
Voted Republican	20
Voted other	1 [a]
Voted for winning candidate	30
Voted for losing candidate	12

Following is a table of United States presidential elections in Minnesota, ordered by year. Since its admission to statehood in 1858, Minnesota has participated in every U.S. presidential election.

Winners of the state are in bold. The shading refers to the state winner, and not the national winner.

Minnesota is a signatory of the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, an interstate compact in which signatories award all of their electoral votes to the winner of the national-level popular vote in a presidential election, even if another candidate won an individual signatory's popular vote. As of 2023, ^[update] it has not yet gone into force. ^[1]

Elections from 1864 to present

Year	Winner (nationally)	Votes	Percent	Runner-up (nationally)	Votes	Percent	Other national candidates [b]	Votes	Percent	Electoral votes
2024 [2]	Donald Trump	1,519,032	46.68	Kamala Harris	1,656,979	50.92	—			10
2020 [3]	Joe Biden	1,717,077	52.40	Donald Trump	1,484,065	45.28	—			10
2016 [4]	Donald Trump [c]	1,323,232	44.93	Hillary Clinton	1,367,825	46.44	—			10
2012 [5]	Barack Obama	1,546,167	52.65	Mitt Romney	1,320,225	44.96	—			10
2008 [6]	Barack Obama	1,573,354	54.06	John McCain	1,275,409	43.82	—			10
2004 [7]	George W. Bush	1,346,695	47.61	John Kerry	1,445,014	51.09	—			10 [d]
2000 [8]	George W. Bush [c]	1,109,659	45.50	Al Gore	1,168,266	47.91	—			10
1996 [9]	Bill Clinton	1,120,438	51.10	Bob Dole	766,476	34.96	Ross Perot	257,704	11.75	10
1992	Bill Clinton	1,020,997	43.48	George H. W. Bush	747,841	31.85	Ross Perot	562,506	23.96	10
1988	George H. W. Bush	962,337	45.90	Michael Dukakis	1,109,471	52.91	—			10
1984	Ronald Reagan	1,032,603	49.54	Walter Mondale	1,036,364	49.72	—			10
1980	Ronald Reagan	873,241	42.56	Jimmy Carter	954,174	46.50	John B. Anderson	174,990	8.53	10
1976	Jimmy Carter	1,070,440	54.90	Gerald Ford	819,395	42.02	—			10
1972	Richard Nixon	898,269	51.58	George McGovern	802,346	46.07	—			10
1968	Richard Nixon	658,643	41.46	Hubert Humphrey	857,738	54.00	George Wallace	68,931	4.34	10
1964	Lyndon B. Johnson	991,117	63.76	Barry Goldwater	559,624	36.00	—			10
1960	John F. Kennedy	779,933	50.58	Richard Nixon	757,915	49.16	—			11
1956	Dwight D. Eisenhower	719,302	53.68	Adlai Stevenson II	617,525	46.08	T. Coleman Andrews/ Unpledged Electors [e]	-		11
1952	Dwight D. Eisenhower	763,211	55.33	Adlai Stevenson II	608,458	44.11	—			11
1948	Harry S. Truman	692,966	57.16	Thomas E. Dewey	483,617	39.89	Strom Thurmond	—	—	11
1944	Franklin D. Roosevelt	589,864	52.41	Thomas E. Dewey	527,416	46.86	—			11
1940	Franklin D. Roosevelt	644,196	51.49	Wendell Willkie	596,274	47.66	—			11
1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	698,811	61.84	Alf Landon	350,461	31.01	—			11
1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	600,806	59.91	Herbert Hoover	363,959	36.29	—			11
1928	Herbert Hoover	560,977	57.77	Al Smith	396,451	40.83	—			12
1924	Calvin Coolidge	420,759	51.18	John W. Davis	55,913	6.80	Robert M. La Follette	339,192	41.26	12
1920	Warren G. Harding	519,421	70.59	James M. Cox	142,994	19.43	Parley P. Christensen	—	—	12
1916	Woodrow Wilson	179,152	46.25	Charles E. Hughes	179,544	46.35	—			12
1912	Woodrow Wilson	106,426	31.84	Theodore Roosevelt	125,856	37.66	William H. Taft	64,334	19.25	12
1908	William H. Taft	195,843	59.11	William Jennings Bryan	109,401	33.02	—			11
1904	Theodore Roosevelt	216,651	73.98	Alton B. Parker	55,187	18.84	—			11
1900	William McKinley	190,461	60.21	William Jennings Bryan	112,901	35.69	—			9
1896	William McKinley	193,503	56.62	William Jennings Bryan	139,735	40.89	—			9
1892	Grover Cleveland	100,920	37.76	Benjamin Harrison	122,823	45.96	James B. Weaver	29,313	10.97	9
1888	Benjamin Harrison [c]	142,492	54.12	Grover Cleveland	104,385	39.65	—			7
1884	Grover Cleveland	70,065	36.87	James G. Blaine	111,685	58.78	—			7
1880	James A. Garfield	93,902	62.28	Winfield S. Hancock	53,315	35.36	James B. Weaver	3,267	2.17	5
1876	Rutherford B. Hayes [c]	72,955	58.80	Samuel J. Tilden	48,587	39.16	—			5
1872	Ulysses S. Grant	55,708	61.27	Horace Greeley	35,211	38.73	—			5
1868	Ulysses S. Grant	43,545	60.8	Horatio Seymour	28,075	39.2	—			4
1864	Abraham Lincoln	25,031	59.0	George B. McClellan	17,376	41.0	—			4

Election of 1860

The election of 1860 was a complex realigning election in which the breakdown of the previous two-party alignment culminated in four parties each competing for influence in different parts of the country. The result of the election, with the victory of an ardent opponent of slavery, spurred the secession of eleven states and brought about the American Civil War.

Year	Winner (nationally)	Votes	Percent	Runner-up (nationally)	Votes	Percent	Runner-up (nationally)	Votes	Percent	Runner-up (nationally)	Votes	Percent	Electoral votes
1860	Abraham Lincoln	22,069	63.4	Stephen A. Douglas	11,920	34.3	John C. Breckinridge	748	2.2	John Bell	50	0.1	4

See also

• Elections in Minnesota
• Minnesota presidential primary

Notes

1. Theodore Roosevelt, 1912.
2. For purposes of these lists, other national candidates are defined as those who won at least one electoral vote, or won at least ten percent of the vote in multiple states.
3. Won the electoral college while losing the popular vote
4. Electoral vote split: 9 went to Kerry, 1 faithless elector went to Edwards
5. Was allied with a slate of unpledged electors in Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina

References

1. "Status of National Popular Vote Bill in Each State". National Popular Vote Inc. 11 November 2016. Retrieved 2023-06-05.
2. "2024 State Canvassing Board Certificate". Minnesota Secretary of State . November 21, 2024. Retrieved November 25, 2024.
3. 2020 official Federal Election Commission report.
4. 2016 official Federal Election Commission report.
5. 2012 official Federal Election Commission report.
6. 2008 official Federal Election Commission report.
7. "Federal Elections 2004: Election Results for the U.S. President, the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives" (PDF). Federal Elections Commission. May 2005.
8. "2000 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections.
9. "1996 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved 2018-03-05.