How Minnesota has voted since 1960

Minnesota has 10 electoral votes in 2028, and at the current pace of population change it would lose one electoral vote after the 2030 census. Since 1960 it has voted Democratic 16 times and Republican once. It has backed the national winner in 9 of 17 elections. Kamala Harris carried it in 2024 by 4.2 points, 5.7 points more Democratic than the nation. In 2024, 76.5% of its eligible voters cast a ballot, ranking 2nd among the 50 states and DC (nationally, 64.3%). It has voted Democratic in every election since 1976. Its closest result was in 1984, when Walter Mondale won it by 3,761 votes.

  1. 1960Kennedy+1.4
  2. 1964Johnson+27.8
  3. 1968Humphrey+12.5
  4. 1972Nixon+5.5
  5. 1976Carter+12.9
  6. 1980Carter+3.9
  7. 1984Mondale+0.2
  8. 1988Dukakis+7.0
  9. 1992Clinton+11.6
  10. 1996Clinton+16.1
  11. 2000Gore+2.4
  12. 2004Kerry+3.5
  13. 2008Obama+10.2
  14. 2012Obama+7.7
  15. 2016Clinton+1.5
  16. 2020Biden+7.1
  17. 2024Harris+4.2

Each box is one election: the winner in Minnesota and the margin in points. Darker boxes were won by 10 points or more, lighter by under 5.

Election night

9 p.m. ET

Polls close at 9 p.m. ET (8 p.m. Central).

Also closing at 9 p.m. ET: AZ, CO, IA, LA, NE, NM, NY, WI, WY.

Times from the 2024 general election; states rarely change them, and they will be confirmed for 2028.

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In Congress

Senate

House: 4 Republicans, 4 Democrats

All 8 members
  1. 1 Brad Finstad (R)
  2. 2 Angie Craig (D)
  3. 3 Kelly Morrison (D)
  4. 4 Betty McCollum (D)
  5. 5 Ilhan Omar (D)
  6. 6 Tom Emmer (R)
  7. 7 Michelle Fischbach (R)
  8. 8 Pete Stauber (R)

From Congress.gov, as of Oct. 5, 2026. Vacant seats are not listed.

Margin by election

Minnesota margin by electionBars show the Democratic or Republican margin in Minnesota in each election since 1960; the line shows the national popular-vote margin. The table below has every figure.R+30R+20R+10EvenD+10D+20D+301960: D+1.4 (nation D+0.2)'601964: D+27.8 (nation D+22.6)'641968: D+12.5 (nation R+0.7)'681972: R+5.5 (nation R+23.2)'721976: D+12.9 (nation D+2.1)'761980: D+3.9 (nation R+9.7)'801984: D+0.2 (nation R+18.2)'841988: D+7.0 (nation R+7.7)'881992: D+11.6 (nation D+5.6)'921996: D+16.1 (nation D+8.5)'962000: D+2.4 (nation D+0.5)'002004: D+3.5 (nation R+2.5)'042008: D+10.2 (nation D+7.3)'082012: D+7.7 (nation D+3.9)'122016: D+1.5 (nation D+2.1)'162020: D+7.1 (nation D+4.5)'202024: D+4.2 (nation R+1.5)'24

Minnesota margin National popular vote

By county

Donald Trump won 78 of Minnesota's 87 counties in 2024; Kamala Harris won 9.

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Largest counties, 2024

CountyVotesMarginShift from 2020
Hennepin County720,173D+42.4→R 0.8
Ramsey County278,025D+43.1→R 2.2
Dakota County259,805D+12.8→R 1.1
Anoka County210,481R+4.4→R 2.5
Washington County169,536D+8.9→R 0.4
St. Louis County119,009D+13.7→R 2.0
Olmsted County90,924D+10.6→R 0.1
Scott County90,141R+8.5→R 1.8
Wright County90,041R+29.2→R 0.7
Stearns County86,632R+26.7→R 4.2

Biggest shifts from 2020 to 2024: toward the Republican, Mahnomen County (7.4), Watonwan County (6.2), Norman County (6.2); toward the Democrat, Cook County (0.8), Lincoln County (0.4), Lake County (0.3) — in points of margin.

County returns from the MIT Election Data and Science Lab (official state data), 2000–2024. Margin is the Democrat's share minus the Republican's, of all votes cast.

Results by year

YearWinnerDemocratRepublicanOtherMarginNationTurnoutEV
2024 Kamala HarrisHarris lostHarris 50.9%1,656,979Trump 46.7%1,519,0322.4%D+4.2R+1.576.5%10
2020 Joe BidenBidenBiden 52.4%1,717,077Trump 45.3%1,484,0652.3%D+7.1D+4.579.2%10
2016 Hillary ClintonClinton lostClinton 46.5%1,367,705Trump 44.9%1,322,9498.6%D+1.5D+2.174.7%10
2012 Barack ObamaObamaObama 52.7%1,546,167Romney 45.0%1,320,2252.4%D+7.7D+3.976.5%10
2008 Barack ObamaObamaObama 54.1%1,573,354McCain 43.8%1,275,4092.1%D+10.2D+7.378.1%10
2004 John KerryKerry lostKerry 51.1%1,445,014Bush 47.6%1,346,6951.3%D+3.5R+2.579.0%10*
2000 Al GoreGore lostGore 47.9%1,168,266Bush 45.5%1,109,659Nader 5.2%D+2.4D+0.571.1%10
1996 Bill ClintonClintonClinton 51.1%1,120,380Dole 35.0%766,395Perot 11.8%D+16.1D+8.566.6%10
1992 Bill ClintonClintonClinton 43.5%1,020,997Bush 31.9%747,841Perot 24.0%D+11.6D+5.673.9%10
1988 Michael DukakisDukakis lostDukakis 52.9%1,109,471Bush 45.9%962,3371.2%D+7.0R+7.768.9%10
1984 Walter MondaleMondale lostMondale 49.7%1,036,364Reagan 49.5%1,032,6030.7%D+0.2R+18.271.0%10
1980 Jimmy CarterCarter lostCarter 46.5%954,173Reagan 42.6%873,268Anderson 8.5%D+3.9R+9.772.1%10
1976 Jimmy CarterCarterCarter 54.9%1,070,440Ford 42.0%819,3953.1%D+12.9D+2.1—10
1972 Richard NixonNixonMcGovern 46.1%Nixon 51.6%2.4%R+5.5R+23.2—10
1968 Hubert HumphreyHumphrey lostHumphrey 54.0%Nixon 41.5%4.5%D+12.5R+0.7—10
1964 Lyndon B. JohnsonJohnsonJohnson 63.8%Goldwater 36.0%0.2%D+27.8D+22.6—10
1960 John F. KennedyKennedyKennedy 50.6%Nixon 49.2%0.3%D+1.4D+0.2—11

Margin is the Democrat's share minus the Republican's, in percentage points; Nation is the same for the national popular vote. "Other" is everyone else combined, or the leading third-party candidate where one took 5% or more. Vote counts from 1976. Turnout is ballots cast as a share of eligible voters, from 1980 (UF Election Lab; the newest year is preliminary).

  • 2004: One Democratic elector voted for John Edwards for both president and vice president.

Electoral votes

Electoral votes change after each census, when House seats are reapportioned.

  • 1119601950 census
  • 101964–19681960 census
  • 101972–19801970 census
  • 101984–19881980 census
  • 101992–20001990 census
  • 102004–20082000 census
  • 102012–20202010 census
  • 102024–20282020 census
  • 92032–2040projected

Projected: Minnesota's share of House seats after the 2030 census if each state's population keeps changing at its pace since 2020, from the Census Bureau's 2024 American Community Survey population estimates (July 1, 2024). If the count were taken today it would have 9. An estimate, not a forecast.

Before 1960

Minnesota cast electoral votes in 25 presidential elections before 1960, the first in 1860. It backed the eventual president in 21 of them.

YearCarried byElectorsMarginBacked winner
1956Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican11+7.6✓
1952Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican11+11.3✓
1948Harry S. Truman Democratic11+17.8✓
1944Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic11+5.6✓
1940Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic11+3.9✓
1936Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic11+33.2✓
1932Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic11+24.5✓
1928Herbert Hoover Republican12+17.2✓
1924Calvin Coolidge Republican12+10.0✓
1920Warren G. Harding Republican12+56.8✓
1916Charles Evans Hughes Republican12+0.1–
1912Theodore Roosevelt Progressive12+6.0–
1908William Howard Taft Republican11+28.3✓
1904Theodore Roosevelt Republican11+59.4✓
1900William McKinley Republican9+25.6✓
1896William McKinley Republican9+16.1✓
1892Benjamin Harrison Republican9+8.6–
1888Benjamin Harrison Republican7+15.4✓
1884James G. Blaine Republican7+22.9–
1880James A. Garfield Republican5+27.6✓
1876Rutherford B. Hayes Republican5+19.8✓
1872Ulysses S. Grant Republican5+22.9✓
1868Ulysses S. Grant Republican4+21.6✓
1864Abraham Lincoln Republican4+18.1✓
1860Abraham Lincoln Republican4+29.2✓

Margin: the winner's lead over the runner-up in the state's popular vote, in points. A dash means the legislature chose the electors (common before the 1830s) or no popular vote is on record. Each year links to that election's map and full results.