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2012 United States presidential election in Minnesota [19] Party Candidate Running mate Votes Percentage Electoral votes Democratic (DFL) Barack Obama (incumbent) Joe Biden (incumbent) 1,546,167: 52.65%: 10: Republican: Mitt Romney: Paul Ryan: 1,320,225 44.96% 0 Libertarian: Gary Johnson: Jim Gray: 35,098 1.20% 0 Green: Jill Stein: Cheri ...
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.
The historical trends in voter turnout in the United States presidential elections have been shaped by the gradual expansion of voting rights from the initial restriction to white male property owners aged 21 or older in the early years of the country's independence to all citizens aged 18 or older in the mid-20th century. [1]
Minnesota has consistently high voter turnout; in the 2008 U.S. presidential election, 77.8% of eligible Minnesotans voted – the highest percentage of any U.S. state or territory – versus the national average of 61.7%. [3]
With early voting starts soon, Ryan Binkley is racing to be on the state's Republican party's primary ballot.
Elections were held in Minnesota on Tuesday, November 6, 2012. Primary elections took place on August 14, 2012. [1] The Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) saw wins across the board, gaining a majority in both state legislative houses and flipping one congressional seat. Two Republican-supported constitutional amendments on were struck down. [2]
Vice President Kamala Harris has selected Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her vice presidential running mate, adding a popular Midwestern state executive to the Democratic ticket as the party gears up ...
The 2012 election marked the first time since Franklin D. Roosevelt's last two re-elections in 1940 and 1944 that the Democrats won a majority of the popular vote in two consecutive elections. [152] Obama was also the first president of either party to secure a majority of the popular vote in two elections since Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1984 ...