| Election Name: | 2016 Minnesota Democratic presidential caucuses |
| Country: | Minnesota |
| Flag Image: | File:Flag of Minnesota (1983-2024).svg |
| Flag Year: | 1983 |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 2012 United States presidential election in Minnesota#Democratic caucuses |
| Previous Year: | 2012 |
| Next Election: | 2020 Minnesota Democratic presidential primary |
| Next Year: | 2020 |
| Candidate1: | Bernie Sanders |
| Color1: | 228b22 |
| Home State1: | Vermont |
| Delegate Count1: | 46 |
| Popular Vote1: | 126,229 |
| Percentage1: | 61.69% |
| Candidate2: | Hillary Clinton |
| Color2: | d4aa00 |
| Home State2: | New York |
| Delegate Count2: | 31 |
| Popular Vote2: | 78,381 |
| Percentage2: | 38.31% |
| Map Size: | 300px |
The 2016 Minnesota Democratic presidential caucuses took place on March 1 in the U.S. state of Minnesota as one of the Democratic Party's primaries ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
On the same day, dubbed "Super Tuesday," Democratic primaries were held in ten other states plus American Samoa, while the Republican Party held primaries in eleven states including their own Minnesota caucuses.
See also: Statewide opinion polling for the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries.
See also: Results of the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries.
Primary date: March 1, 2016
National delegates: 69
Bernie Sanders scored an imperative, much-needed victory in the Minnesota caucus, a state he had targeted to keep his path to the nomination alive. With its populist, mostly white electorate, Minnesota was a state seen as favorable to Sanders based on his performance in previous caucus contests, which was only aided by high voter turnout, almost topping the record of 211,000 votes in the 2008 Minnesota Democratic Presidential Primary. Sanders ran up big margins in Minneapolis and the Minneapolis suburbs, and in the working-class, mostly white Iron Range of northern Minnesota which contains the city of Duluth, where he won north of 60% of the vote. Sanders won 76 out of 87 counties and all eight congressional districts in the state.
Sanders had campaigned hard for the state, appearing with Rep. Keith Ellison, the Congressional Progressive Caucus co-chair who endorsed Sanders in October 2015.[1]