United States presidential elections in Minnesota

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.

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

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 Trump1,484,06545.28—10
2016[3]Donald Trump[lower-alpha 3]1,323,23244.93Hillary Clinton1,367,82546.44—10
2012[4]Barack Obama1,546,16752.65Mitt Romney1,320,22544.96—10
2008[5]Barack Obama1,573,35454.06John McCain1,275,40943.82—10
2004[6]George W. Bush1,346,69547.61John Kerry1,445,01451.09—10 [lower-alpha 4]
2000[7]George W. Bush[lower-alpha 3]1,109,65945.50Al Gore1,168,26647.91—10
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 Dukakis1,109,47152.91—10
1984Ronald Reagan1,032,60349.54Walter Mondale1,036,36449.72—10
1980Ronald Reagan873,24142.56Jimmy Carter954,17446.50John B. Anderson174,9908.5310
1976Jimmy Carter1,070,44054.90Gerald Ford819,39542.02—10
1972Richard Nixon898,26951.58George McGovern802,34646.07—10
1968Richard Nixon658,64341.46Hubert Humphrey857,73854.00George Wallace68,9314.3410
1964Lyndon B. Johnson991,11763.76Barry Goldwater559,62436.00—10
1960John F. Kennedy779,93350.58Richard Nixon757,91549.16—11
1956Dwight D. Eisenhower719,30253.68Adlai Stevenson II617,52546.08T. Coleman Andrews/
Unpledged Electors[lower-alpha 5]		-11
1952Dwight D. Eisenhower763,21155.33Adlai Stevenson II608,45844.11—11
1948Harry S. Truman692,96657.16Thomas E. Dewey483,61739.89Strom Thurmond——11
1944Franklin D. Roosevelt589,86452.41Thomas E. Dewey527,41646.86—11
1940Franklin D. Roosevelt644,19651.49Wendell Willkie596,27447.66—11
1936Franklin D. Roosevelt698,81161.84Alf Landon350,46131.01—11
1932Franklin D. Roosevelt600,80659.91Herbert Hoover363,95936.29—11
1928Herbert Hoover560,97757.77Al Smith396,45140.83—12
1924Calvin Coolidge420,75951.18John W. Davis55,9136.80Robert M. La Follette339,19241.2612
1920Warren G. Harding519,42170.59James M. Cox142,99419.43Parley P. Christensen——12
1916Woodrow Wilson179,15246.25Charles E. Hughes179,54446.35—12
1912Woodrow Wilson106,42631.84Theodore Roosevelt125,85637.66William H. Taft64,33419.2512
1908William H. Taft195,84359.11William Jennings Bryan109,40133.02—11
1904Theodore Roosevelt216,65173.98Alton B. Parker55,18718.84—11
1900William McKinley190,46160.21William Jennings Bryan112,90135.69—9
1896William McKinley193,50356.62William Jennings Bryan139,73540.89—9
1892Grover Cleveland100,92037.76Benjamin Harrison122,82345.96James B. Weaver29,31310.979
1888Benjamin Harrison[lower-alpha 3]142,49254.12Grover Cleveland104,38539.65—7
1884Grover Cleveland70,06536.87James G. Blaine111,68558.78—7
1880James A. Garfield93,90262.28Winfield S. Hancock53,31535.36James B. Weaver3,2672.175
1876Rutherford B. Hayes[lower-alpha 3]72,95558.80Samuel J. Tilden48,58739.16—5
1872Ulysses S. Grant55,70861.27Horace Greeley35,21138.73—5
1868Ulysses S. Grant43,54560.8Horatio Seymour28,07539.2—4
1864Abraham Lincoln25,03159.0George B. McClellan17,37641.0—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. 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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