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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.
Biden's win marked the twelfth consecutive Democratic presidential win in the state, which has not voted for a Republican for president since 1972. Biden flipped four counties Trump carried in 2016: Clay , Nicollet , Blue Earth , and Winona , all of which were won by Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012 .
With Harris narrowly winning Clay County, which houses Moorhead, this was the first presidential election since 1988 in which said county did not back the winning candidate; during that election, it favored Democrat Michael Dukakis over Republican George H. W. Bush. [70]
Clinton won almost every pre-election poll in Minnesota by margins ranging from 5 to 11 points. Trump won one poll in November 2015, 45% to 42%, and one poll in September 2016 showed a tie. The average of the last two polls had Clinton up 50% to 41%. [22] The last poll had Clinton up 53% to 42%.
The following 96 counties have deviated from the winner of the presidential election in two elections since ... Blue Earth County, Minnesota, in 1988 and 2004; ...
The following is a table of United States presidential election results by state. They are indirect elections in which voters in each state cast ballots for a slate of electors of the U.S. Electoral College who pledge to vote for a specific political party's nominee for president. Bold italic text indicates the winner of the election
Minnesota had voted for the Democratic nominee in every presidential election since 1976, the longest streak of any U.S. state as of the 2016 election. The Democratic nominee in 2016, Hillary Clinton , won Minnesota by less than two percentage points over Republican nominee Donald Trump .
The 1984 United States presidential election in Minnesota took place on November 6, 1984, as part of the 1984 United States presidential election. Voters chose ten representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Minnesota voted for the DFL candidate, former Vice President Walter Mondale.