United States presidential elections in Minnesota

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Presidential elections in Minnesota
Minnesota in United States.svg
Number of elections42
Voted Democratic21
Voted Republican20
Voted other1 [a]
Voted for winning candidate30
Voted for losing candidate12

Following is a table of United States presidential elections in Minnesota, ordered by year. Since its admission to statehood on May 11, 1858, Minnesota has participated in every U.S. presidential election.

Contents

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, it has not yet gone into force. [1]

Elections from 1864 to present

YearWinner (nationally)VotesPercentRunner-up (nationally)VotesPercentOther national
candidates [b]
VotesPercentElectoral
votes
2024 [2] Donald Trump 1,519,03246.68 Kamala Harris 1,656,97950.9210
2020 [3] Joe Biden 1,717,07752.40 Donald Trump 1,484,06545.2810
2016 [4] Donald Trump [c] 1,323,23244.93 Hillary Clinton 1,367,82546.4410
2012 [5] Barack Obama 1,546,16752.65 Mitt Romney 1,320,22544.9610
2008 [6] Barack Obama 1,573,35454.06 John McCain 1,275,40943.8210
2004 [7] George W. Bush 1,346,69547.61 John Kerry 1,445,01451.0910 [d]
2000 [8] George W. Bush [c] 1,109,65945.50 Al Gore 1,168,26647.9110
1996 [9] Bill Clinton 1,120,43851.10 Bob Dole 766,47634.96 Ross Perot 257,70411.7510
1992 Bill Clinton 1,020,99743.48 George H. W. Bush 747,84131.85 Ross Perot 562,50623.9610
1988 George H. W. Bush 962,33745.90 Michael Dukakis 1,109,47152.9110
1984 Ronald Reagan 1,032,60349.54 Walter Mondale 1,036,36449.7210
1980 Ronald Reagan 873,24142.56 Jimmy Carter 954,17446.50 John B. Anderson 174,9908.5310
1976 Jimmy Carter 1,070,44054.90 Gerald Ford 819,39542.0210
1972 Richard Nixon 898,26951.58 George McGovern 802,34646.0710
1968 Richard Nixon 658,64341.46 Hubert Humphrey 857,73854.00 George Wallace 68,9314.3410
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson 991,11763.76 Barry Goldwater 559,62436.0010
1960 John F. Kennedy 779,93350.58 Richard Nixon 757,91549.1611
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower 719,30253.68 Adlai Stevenson II 617,52546.08 T. Coleman Andrews/
Unpledged Electors [e]
-11
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower 763,21155.33 Adlai Stevenson II 608,45844.1111
1948 Harry S. Truman 692,96657.16 Thomas E. Dewey 483,61739.89 Strom Thurmond 11
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt 589,86452.41 Thomas E. Dewey 527,41646.8611
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt 644,19651.49 Wendell Willkie 596,27447.6611
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt 698,81161.84 Alf Landon 350,46131.0111
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt 600,80659.91 Herbert Hoover 363,95936.2911
1928 Herbert Hoover 560,97757.77 Al Smith 396,45140.8312
1924 Calvin Coolidge 420,75951.18 John W. Davis 55,9136.80 Robert M. La Follette 339,19241.2612
1920 Warren G. Harding 519,42170.59 James M. Cox 142,99419.43 Parley P. Christensen 12
1916 Woodrow Wilson 179,15246.25 Charles E. Hughes 179,54446.3512
1912 Woodrow Wilson 106,42631.84 Theodore Roosevelt 125,85637.66 William H. Taft 64,33419.2512
1908 William H. Taft 195,84359.11 William Jennings Bryan 109,40133.0211
1904 Theodore Roosevelt 216,65173.98 Alton B. Parker 55,18718.8411
1900 William McKinley 190,46160.21 William Jennings Bryan 112,90135.699
1896 William McKinley 193,50356.62 William Jennings Bryan 139,73540.899
1892 Grover Cleveland 100,92037.76 Benjamin Harrison 122,82345.96 James B. Weaver 29,31310.979
1888 Benjamin Harrison [c] 142,49254.12 Grover Cleveland 104,38539.657
1884 Grover Cleveland 70,06536.87 James G. Blaine 111,68558.787
1880 James A. Garfield 93,90262.28 Winfield S. Hancock 53,31535.36 James B. Weaver 3,2672.175
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes [c] 72,95558.80 Samuel J. Tilden 48,58739.165
1872 Ulysses S. Grant 55,70861.27 Horace Greeley 35,21138.735
1868 Ulysses S. Grant 43,54560.8 Horatio Seymour 28,07539.24
1864 Abraham Lincoln 25,03159.0 George B. McClellan 17,37641.04

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.

YearWinner (nationally)VotesPercentRunner-up (nationally)VotesPercentRunner-up (nationally)VotesPercentRunner-up (nationally)VotesPercentElectoral
votes
1860 Abraham Lincoln 22,06963.4 Stephen A. Douglas 11,92034.3 John C. Breckinridge 7482.2 John Bell 500.14

See also

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. 1 2 3 4 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.