Presidential elections in Minnesota
Map of the United States with Minnesota highlighted
Number of elections41
Voted Democratic20
Voted Republican20
Voted other1[a]
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

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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

  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. ^ a b c d 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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