Presidential elections in Minnesota
Map of the United States with Minnesota highlighted
Number of elections41
Voted Democratic20
Voted Republican20
Voted other1[lower-alpha 1]
Voted for winning candidate30
Voted for losing candidate11

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, 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[lower-alpha 2]
Votes Percent Electoral
Votes
2020[2]Joe Biden1,717,07752.40Donald Trump1,484,06545.2810
2016[3]Donald Trump[lower-alpha 3]1,323,23244.93Hillary Clinton1,367,82546.4410
2012[4]Barack Obama1,546,16752.65Mitt Romney1,320,22544.9610
2008[5]Barack Obama1,573,35454.06John McCain1,275,40943.8210
2004[6]George W. Bush1,346,69547.61John Kerry1,445,01451.0910 [lower-alpha 4]
2000[7]George W. Bush[lower-alpha 3]1,109,65945.50Al Gore1,168,26647.9110
1996[8]Bill Clinton1,120,43851.10Bob Dole766,47634.96Ross Perot257,70411.7510
1992Bill Clinton1,020,99743.48George H. W. Bush747,84131.85Ross Perot562,50623.9610
1988George H. W. Bush962,33745.90Michael Dukakis1,109,47152.9110
1984Ronald Reagan1,032,60349.54Walter Mondale1,036,36449.7210
1980Ronald Reagan873,24142.56Jimmy Carter954,17446.50John B. Anderson174,9908.5310
1976Jimmy Carter1,070,44054.90Gerald Ford819,39542.0210
1972Richard Nixon898,26951.58George McGovern802,34646.0710
1968Richard Nixon658,64341.46Hubert Humphrey857,73854.00George Wallace68,9314.3410
1964Lyndon B. Johnson991,11763.76Barry Goldwater559,62436.0010
1960John F. Kennedy779,93350.58Richard Nixon757,91549.1611
1956Dwight D. Eisenhower719,30253.68Adlai Stevenson II617,52546.08T. Coleman Andrews/
Unpledged Electors[lower-alpha 5]
-11
1952Dwight D. Eisenhower763,21155.33Adlai Stevenson II608,45844.1111
1948Harry S. Truman692,96657.16Thomas E. Dewey483,61739.89Strom Thurmond11
1944Franklin D. Roosevelt589,86452.41Thomas E. Dewey527,41646.8611
1940Franklin D. Roosevelt644,19651.49Wendell Willkie596,27447.6611
1936Franklin D. Roosevelt698,81161.84Alf Landon350,46131.0111
1932Franklin D. Roosevelt600,80659.91Herbert Hoover363,95936.2911
1928Herbert Hoover560,97757.77Al Smith396,45140.8312
1924Calvin Coolidge420,75951.18John W. Davis55,9136.80Robert M. La Follette339,19241.2612
1920Warren G. Harding519,42170.59James M. Cox142,99419.43Parley P. Christensen12
1916Woodrow Wilson179,15246.25Charles E. Hughes179,54446.3512
1912Woodrow Wilson106,42631.84Theodore Roosevelt125,85637.66William H. Taft64,33419.2512
1908William H. Taft195,84359.11William Jennings Bryan109,40133.0211
1904Theodore Roosevelt216,65173.98Alton B. Parker55,18718.8411
1900William McKinley190,46160.21William Jennings Bryan112,90135.699
1896William McKinley193,50356.62William Jennings Bryan139,73540.899
1892Grover Cleveland100,92037.76Benjamin Harrison122,82345.96James B. Weaver29,31310.979
1888Benjamin Harrison[lower-alpha 3]142,49254.12Grover Cleveland104,38539.657
1884Grover Cleveland70,06536.87James G. Blaine111,68558.787
1880James A. Garfield93,90262.28Winfield S. Hancock53,31535.36James B. Weaver3,2672.175
1876Rutherford B. Hayes[lower-alpha 3]72,95558.80Samuel J. Tilden48,58739.165
1872Ulysses S. Grant55,70861.27Horace Greeley35,21138.735
1868Ulysses S. Grant43,54560.8Horatio Seymour28,07539.24
1864Abraham Lincoln25,03159.0George B. McClellan17,37641.04

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.

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

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. "Presidential Election Results: Biden Wins". The New York Times. 3 November 2020. Retrieved November 15, 2020.
  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 2018-03-05.
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