Minnesota presidential election results 2016

Hillary Clinton carried Minnesota by 1.52 points (44,765 votes), winning 10 electoral votes.

Electoral votes: 10
Votes counted: 2,944,813
MN result: D+1.5
Compared with the nation: 0.5 pts more Republican
Swing since 2012: 6.2 pts to R

Statewide result

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share	Electoral votes
Hillary Clinton	Democratic	1,367,716	46.40%	10
Donald J. Trump	Republican	1,322,951	44.90%	—
Gary Johnson	Libertarian	112,972	3.80%	—
Total votes		2,944,813

Sources: mn.pdf · 2016

County resultsMIT Election Lab

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MIT Election Data and Science Lab, County Presidential Election Returns 2000-2016 (compiled from official state election records)
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Each county coloured by its winner and shaded by margin. Tap one for its history.

County	Hillary Clinton	Donald J. Trump	Others	Total	Margin
Aitkin	3,134	5,516	581	9,231	25.8
Anoka	75,500	93,339	16,919	185,758	9.6
Becker	5,208	10,880	1,134	17,222	32.9
Beltrami	8,688	10,783	2,093	21,564	9.7
Benton	5,640	12,872	1,546	20,058	36.1
Big Stone	921	1,608	226	2,755	24.9
Blue Earth	14,428	15,667	3,498	33,593	3.7
Brown	3,763	8,708	1,308	13,779	35.9
Carlton	8,460	8,160	1,591	18,211	1.6
Carver	21,508	29,056	5,132	55,696	13.6
Cass	4,949	9,982	1,068	15,999	31.5
Chippewa	1,978	3,764	480	6,222	28.7
Chisago	9,278	18,441	2,509	30,228	30.3
Clay	12,971	13,543	2,884	29,398	1.9
Clearwater	1,100	2,925	220	4,245	43.0
Cook	1,912	1,156	327	3,395	22.3
Cottonwood	1,678	3,679	364	5,721	35.0
Crow Wing	10,982	22,287	2,573	35,842	31.5
Dakota	110,483	99,583	21,374	231,440	4.7
Dodge	3,102	6,527	1,025	10,654	32.1
Douglas	6,227	13,966	1,592	21,785	35.5
Faribault	2,153	4,659	600	7,412	33.8
Fillmore	3,872	6,271	912	11,055	21.7
Freeborn	6,041	8,808	1,202	16,051	17.2
Goodhue	9,446	14,041	2,230	25,717	17.9
Grant	1,105	2,063	305	3,473	27.6
Hennepin	429,288	191,770	58,919	679,977	34.9
Houston	4,145	5,616	843	10,604	13.9
Hubbard	3,423	7,261	821	11,505	33.4
Isanti	5,657	13,635	1,724	21,016	38.0
Itasca	9,015	12,920	1,945	23,880	16.4
Jackson	1,492	3,609	383	5,484	38.6
Kanabec	2,327	5,230	620	8,177	35.5
Kandiyohi	7,266	12,785	1,721	21,772	25.3
Kittson	823	1,349	213	2,385	22.1
Koochiching	2,306	3,569	488	6,363	19.8
Lac Qui Parle	1,305	2,293	262	3,860	25.6
Lake	3,077	2,932	512	6,521	2.2
Lake of the Woods	553	1,540	149	2,242	44.0
Le Sueur	4,623	9,182	1,166	14,971	30.5
Lincoln	860	1,931	228	3,019	35.5
Lyon	3,825	7,256	1,134	12,215	28.1
Mahnomen	930	991	167	2,088	2.9
Marshall	1,225	3,208	384	4,817	41.2
Martin	2,733	7,062	736	10,531	41.1
McLeod	4,978	12,155	1,674	18,807	38.2
Meeker	3,191	8,104	987	12,282	40.0
Mille Lacs	3,710	8,340	967	13,017	35.6
Morrison	3,637	12,925	1,052	17,614	52.7
Mower	7,437	8,823	1,455	17,715	7.8
Murray	1,295	2,974	399	4,668	36.0
Nicollet	7,886	8,437	1,774	18,097	3.0
Nobles	2,733	5,299	600	8,632	29.7
Norman	1,264	1,699	298	3,261	13.3
Olmsted	36,268	35,668	8,193	80,129	0.7
Otter Tail	9,340	20,939	2,221	32,500	35.7
Pennington	2,147	4,000	568	6,715	27.6
Pine	4,580	8,191	1,040	13,811	26.1
Pipestone	1,127	3,338	343	4,808	46.0
Polk	4,712	8,979	1,105	14,796	28.8
Pope	2,106	3,793	420	6,319	26.7
Ramsey	177,738	70,894	24,511	273,143	39.1
Red Lake	540	1,141	200	1,881	32.0
Redwood	1,887	5,137	587	7,611	42.7
Renville	2,117	4,890	599	7,606	36.5
Rice	14,437	15,429	2,577	32,443	3.1
Rock	1,373	3,091	375	4,839	35.5
Roseau	1,856	5,451	497	7,804	46.1
Saint Louis	57,771	44,630	10,021	112,422	11.7
Scott	28,502	39,948	6,579	75,029	15.3
Sherburne	13,293	31,053	3,937	48,283	36.8
Sibley	1,954	5,193	627	7,774	41.7
Stearns	25,576	47,617	6,399	79,592	27.7
Steele	6,241	11,198	1,740	19,179	25.8
Stevens	2,116	2,799	483	5,398	12.7
Swift	1,686	2,963	345	4,994	25.6
Todd	2,783	8,485	725	11,993	47.5
Traverse	630	1,049	119	1,798	23.3
Wabasha	3,866	6,989	977	11,832	26.4
Wadena	1,684	4,837	413	6,934	45.5
Waseca	2,838	5,967	848	9,653	32.4
Washington	67,086	64,428	12,721	144,235	1.8
Watonwan	1,814	2,768	416	4,998	19.1
Wilkin	893	2,129	280	3,302	37.4
Winona	11,366	12,122	2,586	26,074	2.9
Wright	20,334	43,274	6,010	69,618	33.0
Yellow Medicine	1,524	3,382	370	5,276	35.2

Candidate votes as printed in the document. “Total” is the document’s total where it prints one, otherwise the sum of the candidate columns. Margin is the leading ticket’s lead in points over the second.

Notes on how this document was read

Secondary source: MIT Election Data and Science Lab, County Presidential Election Returns 2000-2016 (compiled from official state election records).

Method: Machine-readable dataset; county sums checked against the state totals in The American Presidency Project summary (within 0.5% for both main tickets).

Certified state documentCertified

Minnesota Secretary of State, 2016 General Election Results, Votes for U.S. President and Vice President (web print 12/16/2016; the page is an image)
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Every ticket on the ballot, as printed in the certified document (the statewide table above groups minor candidates as “Others” when the source does).

All 9 tickets as printed in the document

Ticket (as printed)	Code	Votes	Share
Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine v Democratic-	—	1,367,716	46.88%
Donald J. Trump and Michael R. Pence Republican	—	1,322,951	45.34%
Gary Johnson and William Weld Libertarian	—	112,972	3.87%
Evan McMullin and Nathan Johnson Independence	—	53,076	1.82%
Jill Stein and Howie Hawkins Green	—	36,985	1.27%
Dan R. Vacek and Mark Elworth, Jr. Legal Marijuana Now	—	11,291	0.39%
Darrell Castle and Scott Bradley Constitution	—	9,456	0.32%
Alyson Kennedy and Osborne Hart Socialist Workers	—	1,672	0.06%
"Rocky" Roque De La Fuente and Michael American Delta	—	1,431	0.05%
Write-in / scattering		27,263

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Questions and answers

Who won Minnesota in 2016?

Hillary Clinton won Minnesota by 1.52 percentage points (44,765 votes).

How many electoral votes did Minnesota have in 2016?

Minnesota cast 10 electoral votes in 2016.

How many people voted for president in Minnesota in 2016?

2,944,813 votes were counted for president.

How many counties did each candidate win in Minnesota in 2016?

Donald J. Trump 78, Hillary Clinton 9 (out of 87 counties with results).

How did Minnesota change from 2012 to 2016?

The margin moved 6.2 points toward the Republican ticket, from Democratic by 7.7 points to Democratic by 1.5 points.

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