United States presidential elections in Minnesota explained

State:	Minnesota
Number Of Elections:	41
Voted Democratic:	20
Voted Republican:	20
Voted Other:	1
Voted Winning:	30
Voted Losing:	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. it has not yet gone into force.^[1]

Elections from 1864 to present

data-sort-type="number"	Year	Winner (nationally)	data-sort-type="number"	Votes	data-sort-type="number"	Percent	Runner-up (nationally)	data-sort-type="number"	Votes	data-sort-type="number"	Percent	Other national candidates	data-sort-type="number"	Votes	data-sort-type="number"	Percent	data-sort-type="number"	Electoral Votes
2020^[2]	Joe Biden	1,717,077	52.40		1,484,065	45.28	—			10
2016^[3]		1,323,232	44.93	Hillary Clinton	1,367,825	46.44	—			10
2012^[4]	Barack Obama	1,546,167	52.65		1,320,225	44.96	—			10
2008^[5]	Barack Obama	1,573,354	54.06		1,275,409	43.82	—			10
2004^[6]		1,346,695	47.61	John Kerry	1,445,014	51.09	—			10
2000^[7]		1,109,659	45.50	Al Gore	1,168,266	47.91	—			10
1996^[8]	Bill Clinton	1,120,438	51.10		766,476	34.96		257,704	11.75	10
	Bill Clinton	1,020,997	43.48		747,841	31.85		562,506	23.96	10
		962,337	45.90	Michael Dukakis	1,109,471	52.91	—			10
		1,032,603	49.54	Walter Mondale	1,036,364	49.72	—			10
		873,241	42.56	Jimmy Carter	954,174	46.50		174,990	8.53	10
	Jimmy Carter	1,070,440	54.90		819,395	42.02	—			10
	Richard Nixon	898,269	51.58		802,346	46.07	—			10
		658,643	41.46	Hubert Humphrey	857,738	54.00		68,931	4.34	10
	Lyndon B. Johnson	991,117	63.76		559,624	36.00	—			10
	John F. Kennedy	779,933	50.58		757,915	49.16	—			11
	Dwight D. Eisenhower	719,302	53.68		617,525	46.08		-		11
	Dwight D. Eisenhower	763,211	55.33		608,458	44.11	—			11
	Harry S. Truman	692,966	57.16		483,617	39.89		—	—	11
	Franklin D. Roosevelt	589,864	52.41		527,416	46.86	—			11
	Franklin D. Roosevelt	644,196	51.49		596,274	47.66	—			11
	Franklin D. Roosevelt	698,811	61.84		350,461	31.01	—			11
	Franklin D. Roosevelt	600,806	59.91		363,959	36.29	—			11
	Herbert Hoover	560,977	57.77		396,451	40.83	—			12
	Calvin Coolidge	420,759	51.18		55,913	6.80		339,192	41.26	12
	Warren G. Harding	519,421	70.59		142,994	19.43	Parley P. Christensen	—	—	12
		179,152	46.25	Charles E. Hughes	179,544	46.35	—			12
		106,426	31.84	Theodore Roosevelt	125,856	37.66		64,334	19.25	12
	William H. Taft	195,843	59.11		109,401	33.02	—			11
	Theodore Roosevelt	216,651	73.98		55,187	18.84	—			11
	William McKinley	190,461	60.21		112,901	35.69	—			9
	William McKinley	193,503	56.62		139,735	40.89	—			9
		100,920	37.76	Benjamin Harrison	122,823	45.96		29,313	10.97	9
	Benjamin Harrison	142,492	54.12		104,385	39.65	—			7
		70,065	36.87	James G. Blaine	111,685	58.78	—			7
	James A. Garfield	93,902	62.28		53,315	35.36		3,267	2.17	5
	Rutherford B. Hayes	72,955	58.80		48,587	39.16	—			5
	Ulysses S. Grant	55,708	61.27		35,211	38.73	—			5
	Ulysses S. Grant	43,545	60.8		28,075	39.2	—			4
	Abraham Lincoln	25,031	59.0		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.

data-sort-type="number"	Year	Winner (nationally)	data-sort-type="number"	Votes	data-sort-type="number"	Percent	Runner-up (nationally)	data-sort-type="number"	Votes	data-sort-type="number"	Percent	Runner-up (nationally)	data-sort-type="number"	Votes	data-sort-type="number"	Percent	Runner-up (nationally)	data-sort-type="number"	Votes	data-sort-type="number"	Percent	data-sort-type="number"	Electoral Votes
style"text-align:left"	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

• Elections in Minnesota
• Minnesota presidential primary

Notes and References

1. Web site: Status of National Popular Vote Bill in Each State . 11 November 2016 . . 2023-06-05.
2. News: Presidential Election Results: Biden Wins. The New York Times. 3 November 2020 . November 15, 2020.
3. https://transition.fec.gov/pubrec/fe2016/federalelections2016.pdf 2016 official Federal Election Commission report
4. http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/fe2012/federalelections2012.pdf 2012 official Federal Election Commission report
5. http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/fe2008/federalelections2008.pdf 2008 official Federal Election Commission report
6. Web site: Federal Elections 2004: Election Results for the U.S. President, the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives. May 2005 . Federal Elections Commission.
7. Web site: 2000 Presidential Election Statistics. Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections.
8. Web site: 1996 Presidential Election Statistics. Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. 2018-03-05.