United States presidential elections in North Dakota

Presidential elections in North Dakota

Number of elections	34
Voted Democratic	5
Voted Republican	28
Voted other	1 [a]
Voted for winning candidate	23
Voted for losing candidate	11

Following is a table of United States presidential elections in North Dakota, ordered by year. Since its admission to statehood in 1889, North Dakota 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.

Year	Winner (nationally)	Votes	Percent	Runner-up (nationally)	Votes	Percent	Other national candidates [b]	Votes	Percent	Electoral votes	Notes
2024 [1]	Donald Trump	246,505	66.96	Kamala Harris	112,327	30.51	__			3
2020 [2]	Joe Biden	114,902	31.76	Donald Trump	235,595	65.11	—			3
2016 [3]	Donald Trump [c]	216,794	62.96	Hillary Clinton	93,758	27.23	__			3
2012 [4]	Barack Obama	124,827	38.69	Mitt Romney	188,163	58.32	—			3
2008 [5]	Barack Obama	141,278	44.62	John McCain	168,601	53.25	—			3
2004 [6]	George W. Bush	196,651	62.86	John Kerry	111,052	35.5	—			3
2000 [7]	George W. Bush [c]	174,852	60.66	Al Gore	95,284	33.06	—			3
1996 [8]	Bill Clinton	106,905	40.13	Bob Dole	125,050	46.94	Ross Perot	32,515	12.2	3
1992	Bill Clinton	99,168	32.18	George H. W. Bush	136,244	44.22	Ross Perot	71,084	23.07	3
1988	George H. W. Bush	166,559	56.03	Michael Dukakis	127,739	42.97	—			3
1984	Ronald Reagan	200,336	64.84	Walter Mondale	104,429	33.8	—			3
1980	Ronald Reagan	193,695	64.23	Jimmy Carter	79,189	26.26	John B. Anderson	23,640	7.84	3
1976	Jimmy Carter	136,078	45.80	Gerald Ford	153,470	51.66	—			3
1972	Richard Nixon	174,109	62.07	George McGovern	100,384	35.79	—			3
1968	Richard Nixon	138,669	55.94	Hubert Humphrey	94,769	38.23	George Wallace	14,244	5.75	4
1964	Lyndon B. Johnson	149,784	57.97	Barry Goldwater	108,207	41.88	—			4
1960	John F. Kennedy	123,963	44.52	Richard Nixon	154,310	55.42	—			4
1956	Dwight D. Eisenhower	156,766	61.72	Adlai Stevenson II	96,742	38.09	T. Coleman Andrews/ Unpledged Electors [d]	483	0.19	4
1952	Dwight D. Eisenhower	191,712	70.97	Adlai Stevenson II	76,694	28.39	—			4
1948	Harry S. Truman	95,812	43.41	Thomas E. Dewey	115,139	52.17	Strom Thurmond	374	0.17	4
1944	Franklin D. Roosevelt	100,144	45.48	Thomas E. Dewey	118,535	53.84	—			4
1940	Franklin D. Roosevelt	124,036	44.18	Wendell Willkie	154,590	55.06	—			4
1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	163,148	59.60	Alf Landon	72,751	26.58	—			4
1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	178,350	69.59	Herbert Hoover	71,772	28	—			4
1928	Herbert Hoover	131,441	54.80	Al Smith	106,648	44.46	—			5
1924	Calvin Coolidge	94,931	47.68	John W. Davis	13,858	6.96	Robert M. La Follette	89,922	45.17	5
1920	Warren G. Harding	160,072	77.79	James M. Cox	37,422	18.19	Parley P. Christensen	—	—	5
1916	Woodrow Wilson	55,206	47.84	Charles E. Hughes	53,471	46.34	—			5
1912	Woodrow Wilson	29,555	34.14	Theodore Roosevelt	25,726	29.71	William H. Taft	23,090	26.67	5
1908	William H. Taft	57,680	61.02	William Jennings Bryan	32,885	34.79	—			4
1904	Theodore Roosevelt	52,595	75.12	Alton B. Parker	14,273	20.39	—			4
1900	William McKinley	35,898	62.12	William Jennings Bryan	20,531	35.53	—			3
1896	William McKinley	26,335	55.57	William Jennings Bryan	20,686	43.65	—			3
1892	Grover Cleveland	0	0	Benjamin Harrison	17,519	48.50	James B. Weaver	17,700	49.01	3	Electoral vote split three ways, with each candidate getting one electoral vote.

See also

• Elections in North Dakota

Notes

1. James B. Weaver, 1892.
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. Was allied with a slate of unpledged electors in Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina

References

1. "Official (without recounts) 2024 General Election Results". Vote.nd.gov. Retrieved November 22, 2024.
2. 2020 official Federal Election Commission report.
3. 2016 official Federal Election Commission report.
4. 2012 official Federal Election Commission report.
5. 2008 official Federal Election Commission report.
6. "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.
7. "2000 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections.
8. "1996 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved March 5, 2018.