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Number of elections | 41 |
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Voted Democratic | 20 |
Voted Republican | 20 |
Voted other | 1[a] |
Voted for winning candidate | 30 |
Voted for losing candidate | 11 |
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[b] |
Votes | Percent | Electoral Votes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2020[2] | Joe Biden | 1,717,077 | 52.40 | Donald Trump | 1,484,065 | 45.28 | — | 10 | ||
2016[3] | Donald Trump[c] | 1,323,232 | 44.93 | Hillary Clinton | 1,367,825 | 46.44 | — | 10 | ||
2012[4] | Barack Obama | 1,546,167 | 52.65 | Mitt Romney | 1,320,225 | 44.96 | — | 10 | ||
2008[5] | Barack Obama | 1,573,354 | 54.06 | John McCain | 1,275,409 | 43.82 | — | 10 | ||
2004[6] | George W. Bush | 1,346,695 | 47.61 | John Kerry | 1,445,014 | 51.09 | — | 10 [d] | ||
2000[7] | George W. Bush[c] | 1,109,659 | 45.50 | Al Gore | 1,168,266 | 47.91 | — | 10 | ||
1996[8] | 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
Notes
- ^ Theodore Roosevelt, 1912.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b c d Won the electoral college while losing the popular vote
- ^ Electoral vote split: 9 went to Kerry, 1 faithless elector went to Edwards
- ^ Was allied with a slate of unpledged electors in Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina
References
- ^ "Status of National Popular Vote Bill in Each State". National Popular Vote Inc. 11 November 2016. Retrieved 2023-06-05.
- ^ "Presidential Election Results: Biden Wins". The New York Times. 3 November 2020. Retrieved November 15, 2020.
- ^ 2016 official Federal Election Commission report.
- ^ 2012 official Federal Election Commission report.
- ^ 2008 official Federal Election Commission report.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "2000 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections.
- ^ "1996 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved 2018-03-05.