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Minnesota 2016 vs 2020: county swing

35 of 87 counties moved toward the Republican ticket; 4 changed hands.

Lac qui Parle County: swing R+1.2Lyon County: swing D+2.1McLeod County: swing D+1.8Meeker County: swing R+0.6Nicollet County: swing D+6.2Pennington County: swing D+0.6Pope County: swing R+0.9Redwood County: swing D+1.4Steele County: swing D+3.5Todd County: swing R+1.4Waseca County: swing D+2.2Benton County: swing D+4.2Carver County: swing D+8.7Clearwater County: swing R+2.0Dodge County: swing D+1.8Grant County: swing D+1.0Hubbard County: swing D+4.4Kandiyohi County: swing R+0.4Lincoln County: swing R+2.6Marshall County: swing R+6.3Martin County: swing D+3.1Mille Lacs County: swing R+2.3Morrison County: swing R+0.7Mower County: swing D+2.0Nobles County: swing R+1.0Olmsted County: swing D+9.9Otter Tail County: swing D+3.1Pine County: swing R+4.2Pipestone County: swing D+0.5Polk County: swing D+0.4Renville County: swing R+0.1Rock County: swing R+3.2Sherburne County: swing D+4.1Stearns County: swing D+5.2Stevens County: swing R+9.5Wabasha County: swing EvenWashington County: swing D+7.4Wright County: swing D+4.4Lake of the Woods County: swing D+1.0St. Louis County: swing D+4.0Aitkin County: swing R+0.7Anoka County: swing D+7.7Big Stone County: swing R+2.2Carlton County: swing R+0.2Chisago County: swing D+1.0Crow Wing County: swing D+1.8Dakota County: swing D+9.2Douglas County: swing D+2.6Faribault County: swing D+0.2Fillmore County: swing R+1.0Hennepin County: swing D+8.5Isanti County: swing R+0.8Jackson County: swing D+0.7Kanabec County: swing R+2.5Kittson County: swing D+1.6Koochiching County: swing R+1.4Le Sueur County: swing EvenMahnomen County: swing D+1.7Murray County: swing R+3.2Norman County: swing R+2.7Red Lake County: swing R+2.8Rice County: swing D+3.0Sibley County: swing D+0.8Wadena County: swing R+0.2Winona County: swing D+3.3Becker County: swing D+2.7Blue Earth County: swing D+8.2Chippewa County: swing R+2.0Cottonwood County: swing R+3.2Freeborn County: swing D+1.3Itasca County: swing R+0.5Lake County: swing D+1.4Ramsey County: swing D+6.5Roseau County: swing R+0.1Swift County: swing R+4.1Traverse County: swing R+4.1Watonwan County: swing R+2.4Wilkin County: swing R+0.5Yellow Medicine County: swing R+1.9Beltrami County: swing D+6.5Brown County: swing D+3.1Cass County: swing D+2.5Clay County: swing D+6.1Cook County: swing D+11.9Goodhue County: swing D+3.0Houston County: swing D+0.9Scott County: swing D+8.5
Red: toward the Republican ticket. Blue: toward the Democratic ticket.
County20162020SwingVotes 2016Votes 2020
Stevens County R+12.7 R+22.2 R+9.5 5,398 5,066
Marshall County R+41.2 R+47.5 R+6.3 4,817 5,101
Pine County R+26.1 R+30.3 R+4.2 13,811 15,972
Swift County R+25.5 R+29.6 R+4.1 4,994 5,185
Traverse County R+23.3 R+27.4 R+4.1 1,798 1,862
Cottonwood County R+35.0 R+38.2 R+3.2 5,721 6,097
Murray County R+36.0 R+39.2 R+3.2 4,668 4,883
Rock County R+35.5 R+38.7 R+3.2 4,839 5,228
Red Lake County R+32.0 R+34.8 R+2.8 1,881 2,190
Norman County R+13.3 R+16.0 R+2.7 3,261 3,433
Lincoln County R+35.5 R+38.1 R+2.6 3,019 3,112
Kanabec County R+35.5 R+38.0 R+2.5 8,177 9,224
Watonwan County R+19.1 R+21.5 R+2.4 4,998 5,191
Mille Lacs County R+35.6 R+37.9 R+2.3 13,017 14,666
Big Stone County R+25.0 R+27.2 R+2.2 2,755 2,970
Chippewa County R+28.7 R+30.7 R+2.0 6,222 6,599
Clearwater County R+43.0 R+45.0 R+2.0 4,245 4,699
Yellow Medicine County R+35.2 R+37.1 R+1.9 5,276 5,513
Koochiching County R+19.9 R+21.3 R+1.4 6,363 6,905
Todd County R+47.5 R+48.9 R+1.4 11,993 13,236
Lac qui Parle County R+25.6 R+26.8 R+1.2 3,860 4,033
Fillmore County R+21.7 R+22.7 R+1.0 11,055 12,104
Nobles County R+29.7 R+30.7 R+1.0 8,632 8,692
Pope County R+26.7 R+27.6 R+0.9 6,319 7,007
Isanti County R+38.0 R+38.8 R+0.8 21,016 24,162
Aitkin County R+25.8 R+26.5 R+0.7 9,231 10,010
Morrison County R+52.8 R+53.5 R+0.7 17,614 19,525
Meeker County R+40.0 R+40.6 R+0.6 12,282 13,497
Itasca County R+16.3 R+16.8 R+0.5 23,880 26,511
Wilkin County R+37.5 R+38.0 R+0.5 3,302 3,429
Kandiyohi County R+25.3 R+25.7 R+0.4 21,772 23,313
Carlton County D+1.7 D+1.5 R+0.2 18,211 20,320
Wadena County R+45.5 R+45.7 R+0.2 6,934 7,661
Renville County R+36.5 R+36.6 R+0.1 7,606 8,116
Roseau County R+46.0 R+46.1 R+0.1 7,804 8,408
Le Sueur County R+30.4 R+30.4 Even 14,971 16,776
Wabasha County R+26.4 R+26.4 Even 11,832 13,097
Faribault County R+33.9 R+33.7 D+0.2 7,412 7,892
Polk County R+28.9 R+28.5 D+0.4 14,796 15,568
Pipestone County R+46.0 R+45.5 D+0.5 4,808 4,932
Pennington County R+27.6 R+27.0 D+0.6 6,715 7,263
Jackson County R+38.6 R+37.9 D+0.7 5,484 5,813
Sibley County R+41.7 R+40.9 D+0.8 7,774 8,437
Houston County R+13.9 R+13.0 D+0.9 10,604 11,419
Chisago County R+30.3 R+29.3 D+1.0 30,228 34,497
Grant County R+27.6 R+26.6 D+1.0 3,473 3,650
Lake of the Woods County R+44.0 R+43.0 D+1.0 2,242 2,405
Freeborn County R+17.3 R+16.0 D+1.3 16,051 16,791
Lake County D+2.2 D+3.6 D+1.4 6,521 7,183
Redwood County R+42.7 R+41.3 D+1.4 7,611 8,268
Kittson County R+22.1 R+20.5 D+1.6 2,385 2,630
Mahnomen County R+3.0 R+1.3 D+1.7 2,088 2,302
Crow Wing County R+31.6 R+29.8 D+1.8 35,842 40,073
Dodge County R+32.2 R+30.4 D+1.8 10,654 12,157
McLeod County R+38.1 R+36.3 D+1.8 18,807 20,888
Mower County R+7.8 R+5.8 D+2.0 17,715 19,301
Lyon County R+28.1 R+26.0 D+2.1 12,215 12,864
Waseca County R+32.4 R+30.2 D+2.2 9,653 10,364
Cass County R+31.5 R+29.0 D+2.5 15,999 18,255
Douglas County R+35.5 R+32.9 D+2.6 21,785 24,120
Becker County R+33.0 R+30.3 D+2.7 17,222 19,358
Goodhue County R+17.9 R+14.9 D+3.0 25,717 28,567
Rice County R+3.1 R+0.1 D+3.0 32,443 35,609
Brown County R+35.9 R+32.8 D+3.1 13,779 14,595
Martin County R+41.1 R+38.0 D+3.1 10,531 10,979
Otter Tail County R+35.7 R+32.6 D+3.1 32,500 36,311
Winona County flipped R+2.9 D+0.4 D+3.3 26,074 27,108
Steele County R+25.9 R+22.4 D+3.5 19,179 21,076
St. Louis County D+11.7 D+15.7 D+4.0 112,422 119,187
Sherburne County R+36.8 R+32.7 D+4.1 48,283 55,487
Benton County R+36.1 R+31.9 D+4.2 20,058 22,218
Hubbard County R+33.3 R+28.9 D+4.4 11,505 12,927
Wright County R+33.0 R+28.6 D+4.4 69,618 82,194
Stearns County R+27.7 R+22.5 D+5.2 79,592 84,640
Clay County flipped R+2.0 D+4.1 D+6.1 29,398 32,138
Nicollet County flipped R+3.0 D+3.2 D+6.2 18,097 19,071
Beltrami County R+9.7 R+3.2 D+6.5 21,564 24,131
Ramsey County D+39.1 D+45.6 D+6.5 273,143 294,836
Washington County D+1.8 D+9.2 D+7.4 144,235 166,268
Anoka County R+9.6 R+1.9 D+7.7 185,758 210,491
Blue Earth County flipped R+3.7 D+4.5 D+8.2 33,593 35,969
Hennepin County D+34.9 D+43.4 D+8.5 679,977 753,182
Scott County R+15.2 R+6.7 D+8.5 75,029 87,733
Carver County R+13.6 R+4.9 D+8.7 55,696 66,121
Dakota County D+4.7 D+13.9 D+9.2 231,440 261,275
Olmsted County D+0.8 D+10.7 D+9.9 80,129 91,085
Cook County D+22.2 D+34.1 D+11.9 3,395 3,785

Official results As published by The American Presidency Project (UC Santa Barbara) and the state documents it links. How we use this data