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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.
When Reagan was asked in December 1984 what he wanted for Christmas, he joked, "Well, Minnesota would have been nice". [2] He became the first Republican to ever win reelection without carrying Minnesota, and the first of any party since Woodrow Wilson did so in 1916.
Minnesota was won by the Republican candidate, incumbent President Richard Nixon, who won the state over U.S. Senator George McGovern of South Dakota by a margin of 95,923 votes, or 5.51%, the closest state in the election. This result made Minnesota around 18% more Democratic than the nation as a whole.
Nixon became the first Republican to win a presidential election without winning Minnesota. Until 2016 , this was the last presidential election in Minnesota where any county was won with over seventy percent of the popular vote.
Carter became the first Democrat to win Minnesota consecutively since Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won the state every year from 1932 to 1944. Despite Carter's win in Minnesota, Reagan became the first Republican to carry Mahnomen County since Warren G. Harding in 1920. [7]
The state was won by Illinois Representative Abraham Lincoln (Republican Party (United States)), running with Senator Hannibal Hamlin, with 63.44% of the popular vote, against Senator Stephen A. Douglas (D–Illinois), running with 41st Governor of Georgia Herschel V. Johnson, with 34.27% of the popular vote.
After former President Donald Trump lost Minnesota in 2020, he said he'd never come back. Friday, he made his first appearance in four years.
Minnesota held its first Presidential Primary on March 14, 1916. Minnesota was won by the Republican candidate, former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Evans Hughes won the state over incumbent President Woodrow Wilson by a margin of just 392 votes, or 0.1011968% (one vote in 988