See main article: 1928 United States presidential election.
| Election Name: | 1928 United States presidential election in Minnesota |
| Country: | Minnesota |
| Flag Year: | 1893 |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1924 United States presidential election in Minnesota |
| Previous Year: | 1924 |
| Next Election: | 1932 United States presidential election in Minnesota |
| Next Year: | 1932 |
| Election Date: | November 6, 1928 |
| Image1: | Herbert Hoover - NARA - 532049.jpg |
| Nominee1: | Herbert Hoover |
| Party1: | Republican Party (United States) |
| Home State1: | California |
| Running Mate1: | Charles Curtis |
| Electoral Vote1: | 12 |
| Popular Vote1: | 560,977 |
| Percentage1: | 57.77% |
| Nominee2: | Al Smith |
| Party2: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| Home State2: | New York |
| Running Mate2: | Joseph T. Robinson |
| Electoral Vote2: | 0 |
| Popular Vote2: | 396,451 |
| Percentage2: | 40.83% |
| Map Size: | 350px |
| President | |
| Before Election: | Calvin Coolidge |
| Before Party: | Republican Party (United States) |
| After Election: | Herbert Hoover |
| After Party: | Republican Party (United States) |
The 1928 United States presidential election in Minnesota took place on November 6, 1928, as part of the 1928 United States presidential election. Voters chose 12 electors, or representatives to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Minnesota was won by the Republican candidate, former Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover won the state over Democratic Party candidate, New York governor Al Smith by a margin of 164,526 votes, or 16.94%. Nationally, Hoover won the election, with 444 electoral votes and a landslide 17.41% lead over Smith in the popular vote.
A Republican presidential nominee would not carry Minnesota again until Dwight D. Eisenhower did so in 1952. In fact, only two Republicans have since carried it; Eisenhower in 1952 and 1956, and Richard Nixon in 1972. This is the last presidential election in which a Republican won Minnesota without Richard Nixon being on the ticket. This was also the last presidential election held in Minnesota before the elimination of the 10th congressional district, and hence the last presidential election in which Minnesota had 12 electoral votes., this is the last election in which Carlton County and St. Louis County voted for a Republican presidential candidate.[1]
This was the last election as of 2020 in which both Otter Tail County and Lake County voted for the same candidate. In 1932, Otter Tail would back Franklin Roosevelt and then vote for every ensuing Republican while Lake would be the sole Minnesota county to back Hoover's re-election bid before rapidly becoming one of the most Democratic counties in the state and never voting Republican again.[2]
| 1928 United States presidential election in Minnesota[3] | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | ||
| Republican | Herbert Hoover | 560,977 | 57.77% | 12 | ||
| Democratic | Al Smith | 396,451 | 40.83% | 0 | ||
| Socialist | Norman Thomas | 6,774 | 0.70% | 0 | ||
| Workers (Communist) | William Z. Foster | 4,853 | 0.50% | 0 | ||
| Socialist Labor | Verne L. Reynolds | 1,921 | 0.20% | 0 | ||
| Totals | 970,976 | 100.00% | 12 | |||
| County | Herbert Clark Hoover Republican | Alfred Emmanuel Smith Democratic | Various candidates Other parties | Margin | Total votes cast[4] | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| data-sort-type="number" | data-sort-type="number" | % | data-sort-type="number" | data-sort-type="number" | % | data-sort-type="number" | data-sort-type="number" | % | data-sort-type="number" | data-sort-type="number" | % | ||||||||
| Aitkin | 3,951 | 70.10% | 1,428 | 25.34% | 257 | 4.56% | 2,523 | 44.77% | 5,636 | ||||||||||
| Anoka | 3,816 | 59.05% | 2,571 | 39.79% | 75 | 1.16% | 1,245 | 19.27% | 6,462 | ||||||||||
| Becker | 4,273 | 55.47% | 3,253 | 42.23% | 177 | 2.30% | 1,020 | 13.24% | 7,703 | ||||||||||
| Beltrami | 4,062 | 62.28% | 2,221 | 34.05% | 239 | 3.66% | 1,841 | 28.23% | 6,522 | ||||||||||
| Benton | 2,373 | 46.29% | 2,732 | 53.30% | 21 | 0.41% | -359 | -7.00% | 5,126 | ||||||||||
| Big Stone | 1,641 | 43.20% | 2,133 | 56.15% | 25 | 0.66% | -492 | -12.95% | 3,799 | ||||||||||
| Blue Earth | 8,120 | 60.71% | 5,177 | 38.70% | 79 | 0.59% | 2,943 | 22.00% | 13,376 | ||||||||||
| Brown | 3,611 | 40.05% | 5,341 | 59.24% | 64 | 0.71% | -1,730 | -19.19% | 9,016 | ||||||||||
| Carlton | 4,582 | 64.01% | 2,138 | 29.87% | 438 | 6.12% | 2,444 | 34.14% | 7,158 | ||||||||||
| Carver | 3,983 | 57.72% | 2,885 | 41.81% | 33 | 0.48% | 1,098 | 15.91% | 6,901 | ||||||||||
| Cass | 3,781 | 67.02% | 1,747 | 30.96% | 114 | 2.02% | 2,034 | 36.05% | 5,642 | ||||||||||
| Chippewa | 3,547 | 62.77% | 2,032 | 35.96% | 72 | 1.27% | 1,515 | 26.81% | 5,651 | ||||||||||
| Chisago | 4,215 | 75.51% | 1,297 | 23.24% | 70 | 1.25% | 2,918 | 52.28% | 5,582 | ||||||||||
| Clay | 5,057 | 61.13% | 3,128 | 37.81% | 87 | 1.05% | 1,929 | 23.32% | 8,272 | ||||||||||
| Clearwater | 1,898 | 60.01% | 1,189 | 37.59% | 76 | 2.40% | 709 | 22.42% | 3,163 | ||||||||||
| Cook | 609 | 72.59% | 219 | 26.10% | 11 | 1.31% | 390 | 46.48% | 839 | ||||||||||
| Cottonwood | 3,405 | 67.45% | 1,604 | 31.77% | 39 | 0.77% | 1,801 | 35.68% | 5,048 | ||||||||||
| Crow Wing | 6,436 | 67.87% | 2,851 | 30.06% | 196 | 2.07% | 3,585 | 37.80% | 9,483 | ||||||||||
| Dakota | 6,019 | 45.18% | 7,215 | 54.15% | 89 | 0.67% | -1,196 | -8.98% | 13,323 | ||||||||||
| Dodge | 3,569 | 74.49% | 1,196 | 24.96% | 26 | 0.54% | 2,373 | 49.53% | 4,791 | ||||||||||
| Douglas | 4,262 | 59.27% | 2,829 | 39.34% | 100 | 1.39% | 1,433 | 19.93% | 7,191 | ||||||||||
| Faribault | 5,885 | 69.21% | 2,542 | 29.90% | 76 | 0.89% | 3,343 | 39.32% | 8,503 | ||||||||||
| Fillmore | 7,719 | 77.77% | 2,143 | 21.59% | 63 | 0.63% | 5,576 | 56.18% | 9,925 | ||||||||||
| Freeborn | 7,815 | 72.70% | 2,859 | 26.60% | 76 | 0.71% | 4,956 | 46.10% | 10,750 | ||||||||||
| Goodhue | 9,752 | 72.93% | 3,520 | 26.32% | 100 | 0.75% | 6,232 | 46.60% | 13,372 | ||||||||||
| Grant | 2,057 | 54.33% | 1,687 | 44.56% | 42 | 1.11% | 370 | 9.77% | 3,786 | ||||||||||
| Hennepin | 125,472 | 60.19% | 80,851 | 38.79% | 2,124 | 1.02% | 44,621 | 21.41% | 208,447 | ||||||||||
| Houston | 3,615 | 64.87% | 1,937 | 34.76% | 21 | 0.38% | 1,678 | 30.11% | 5,573 | ||||||||||
| Hubbard | 2,291 | 65.76% | 1,120 | 32.15% | 73 | 2.10% | 1,171 | 33.61% | 3,484 | ||||||||||
| Isanti | 3,137 | 71.13% | 1,191 | 27.01% | 82 | 1.86% | 1,946 | 44.13% | 4,410 | ||||||||||
| Itasca | 5,103 | 58.95% | 3,122 | 36.07% | 431 | 4.98% | 1,981 | 22.89% | 8,656 | ||||||||||
| Jackson | 3,099 | 55.06% | 2,503 | 44.47% | 26 | 0.46% | 596 | 10.59% | 5,628 | ||||||||||
| Kanabec | 2,380 | 68.35% | 1,040 | 29.87% | 62 | 1.78% | 1,340 | 38.48% | 3,482 | ||||||||||
| Kandiyohi | 5,780 | 67.82% | 2,481 | 29.11% | 261 | 3.06% | 3,299 | 38.71% | 8,522 | ||||||||||
| Kittson | 1,957 | 56.81% | 1,383 | 40.15% | 105 | 3.05% | 574 | 16.66% | 3,445 | ||||||||||
| Koochiching | 2,599 | 53.67% | 2,110 | 43.57% | 134 | 2.77% | 489 | 10.10% | 4,843 | ||||||||||
| Lac qui Parle | 3,406 | 59.65% | 2,245 | 39.32% | 59 | 1.03% | 1,161 | 20.33% | 5,710 | ||||||||||
| Lake | 2,014 | 72.84% | 618 | 22.35% | 133 | 4.81% | 1,396 | 50.49% | 2,765 | ||||||||||
| Lake of the Woods | 781 | 51.45% | 681 | 44.86% | 56 | 3.69% | 100 | 6.59% | 1,518 | ||||||||||
| Le Sueur | 3,401 | 42.23% | 4,615 | 57.30% | 38 | 0.47% | -1,214 | -15.07% | 8,054 | ||||||||||
| Lincoln | 1,952 | 48.20% | 2,064 | 50.96% | 34 | 0.84% | -112 | -2.77% | 4,050 | ||||||||||
| Lyon | 4,058 | 54.93% | 3,274 | 44.32% | 56 | 0.76% | 784 | 10.61% | 7,388 | ||||||||||
| McLeod | 4,252 | 54.82% | 3,445 | 44.41% | 60 | 0.77% | 807 | 10.40% | 7,757 | ||||||||||
| Mahnomen | 606 | 29.90% | 1,378 | 67.98% | 43 | 2.12% | -772 | -38.09% | 2,027 | ||||||||||
| Marshall | 3,738 | 61.58% | 2,200 | 36.24% | 132 | 2.17% | 1,538 | 25.34% | 6,070 | ||||||||||
| Martin | 5,110 | 64.10% | 2,822 | 35.40% | 40 | 0.50% | 2,288 | 28.70% | 7,972 | ||||||||||
| Meeker | 4,175 | 59.63% | 2,761 | 39.43% | 66 | 0.94% | 1,414 | 20.19% | 7,002 | ||||||||||
| Mille Lacs | 3,998 | 72.01% | 1,436 | 25.86% | 118 | 2.13% | 2,562 | 46.15% | 5,552 | ||||||||||
| Morrison | 3,846 | 42.18% | 5,222 | 57.27% | 51 | 0.56% | -1,376 | -15.09% | 9,119 | ||||||||||
| Mower | 6,209 | 63.09% | 3,587 | 36.45% | 46 | 0.47% | 2,622 | 26.64% | 9,842 | ||||||||||
| Murray | 2,602 | 55.26% | 2,078 | 44.13% | 29 | 0.62% | 524 | 11.13% | 4,709 | ||||||||||
| Nicollet | 3,628 | 59.13% | 2,466 | 40.19% | 42 | 0.68% | 1,162 | 18.94% | 6,136 | ||||||||||
| Nobles | 3,676 | 56.01% | 2,862 | 43.61% | 25 | 0.38% | 814 | 12.40% | 6,563 | ||||||||||
| Norman | 3,308 | 67.39% | 1,401 | 28.54% | 200 | 4.07% | 1,907 | 38.85% | 4,909 | ||||||||||
| Olmsted | 8,334 | 63.63% | 4,720 | 36.04% | 44 | 0.34% | 3,614 | 27.59% | 13,098 | ||||||||||
| Otter Tail | 11,624 | 68.28% | 4,990 | 29.31% | 411 | 2.41% | 6,634 | 38.97% | 17,025 | ||||||||||
| Pennington | 2,506 | 65.29% | 1,198 | 31.21% | 134 | 3.49% | 1,308 | 34.08% | 3,838 | ||||||||||
| Pine | 4,278 | 56.53% | 3,185 | 42.09% | 105 | 1.39% | 1,093 | 14.44% | 7,568 | ||||||||||
| Pipestone | 2,578 | 61.40% | 1,591 | 37.89% | 30 | 0.71% | 987 | 23.51% | 4,199 | ||||||||||
| Polk | 7,215 | 56.08% | 5,357 | 41.64% | 294 | 2.29% | 1,858 | 14.44% | 12,866 | ||||||||||
| Pope | 3,382 | 66.13% | 1,667 | 32.60% | 65 | 1.27% | 1,715 | 33.54% | 5,114 | ||||||||||
| Ramsey | 53,054 | 47.84% | 56,807 | 51.22% | 1,049 | 0.95% | -3,753 | -3.38% | 110,910 | ||||||||||
| Red Lake | 712 | 31.56% | 1,507 | 66.80% | 37 | 1.64% | -795 | -35.24% | 2,256 | ||||||||||
| Redwood | 5,111 | 63.18% | 2,899 | 35.84% | 79 | 0.98% | 2,212 | 27.35% | 8,089 | ||||||||||
| Renville | 5,107 | 57.18% | 3,731 | 41.77% | 94 | 1.05% | 1,376 | 15.41% | 8,932 | ||||||||||
| Rice | 6,576 | 56.50% | 5,014 | 43.08% | 49 | 0.42% | 1,562 | 13.42% | 11,639 | ||||||||||
| Rock | 2,433 | 60.03% | 1,607 | 39.65% | 13 | 0.32% | 826 | 20.38% | 4,053 | ||||||||||
| Roseau | 2,618 | 63.16% | 1,342 | 32.38% | 185 | 4.46% | 1,276 | 30.78% | 4,145 | ||||||||||
| Saint Louis | 44,331 | 61.13% | 25,401 | 35.03% | 2,785 | 3.84% | 18,930 | 26.10% | 72,517 | ||||||||||
| Scott | 1,732 | 28.11% | 4,419 | 71.71% | 11 | 0.18% | -2,687 | -43.61% | 6,162 | ||||||||||
| Sherburne | 2,437 | 69.08% | 1,064 | 30.16% | 27 | 0.77% | 1,373 | 38.92% | 3,528 | ||||||||||
| Sibley | 3,301 | 55.94% | 2,553 | 43.26% | 47 | 0.80% | 748 | 12.68% | 5,901 | ||||||||||
| Stearns | 6,459 | 28.56% | 16,104 | 71.21% | 52 | 0.23% | -9,645 | -42.65% | 22,615 | ||||||||||
| Steele | 4,744 | 62.46% | 2,826 | 37.21% | 25 | 0.33% | 1,918 | 25.25% | 7,595 | ||||||||||
| Stevens | 2,275 | 60.70% | 1,457 | 38.87% | 16 | 0.43% | 818 | 21.82% | 3,748 | ||||||||||
| Swift | 2,791 | 49.72% | 2,733 | 48.69% | 89 | 1.59% | 58 | 1.03% | 5,613 | ||||||||||
| Todd | 5,682 | 59.81% | 3,733 | 39.29% | 85 | 0.89% | 1,949 | 20.52% | 9,500 | ||||||||||
| Traverse | 1,214 | 38.79% | 1,899 | 60.67% | 17 | 0.54% | -685 | -21.88% | 3,130 | ||||||||||
| Wabasha | 3,944 | 55.84% | 3,087 | 43.71% | 32 | 0.45% | 857 | 12.13% | 7,063 | ||||||||||
| Wadena | 2,592 | 64.09% | 1,343 | 33.21% | 109 | 2.70% | 1,249 | 30.89% | 4,044 | ||||||||||
| Waseca | 3,251 | 56.94% | 2,418 | 42.35% | 41 | 0.72% | 833 | 14.59% | 5,710 | ||||||||||
| Washington | 6,113 | 59.06% | 4,158 | 40.17% | 80 | 0.77% | 1,955 | 18.89% | 10,351 | ||||||||||
| Watonwan | 3,306 | 69.69% | 1,412 | 29.76% | 26 | 0.55% | 1,894 | 39.92% | 4,744 | ||||||||||
| Wilkin | 1,874 | 53.90% | 1,578 | 45.38% | 25 | 0.72% | 296 | 8.51% | 3,477 | ||||||||||
| Winona | 7,459 | 53.16% | 6,484 | 46.21% | 88 | 0.63% | 975 | 6.95% | 14,031 | ||||||||||
| Wright | 6,011 | 56.57% | 4,483 | 42.19% | 132 | 1.24% | 1,528 | 14.38% | 10,626 | ||||||||||
| Yellow Medicine | 3,302 | 52.56% | 2,861 | 45.54% | 119 | 1.89% | 441 | 7.02% | 6,282 | ||||||||||
| Totals | 560,977 | 57.77% | 396,458 | 40.83% | 13,587 | 1.40% | 164,519 | 16.94% | 971,022 | ||||||||||