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Election 1880 Results

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1880 presidential election in Minnesota

James A. Garfield (Republican) beat Winfield Scott Hancock (Democrat) in Minnesota in 1880, 62.3% to 35.4%, a margin of 26.9 points and 40,625 votes.

Minnesota voted 26.8 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was R+0.1.

The Republican hold continued from 1876, when Rutherford B. Hayes won.

Republicans led in 65 of the 75 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 10. The largest, Hennepin, cast 12,529 votes and went to the Republican by 31.4 points. The closest was Carlton, where 13 votes separated the two parties.

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Early projection, based on early and incomplete polling: the likely matchups, each weighted by the betting markets' odds of both nominations, not a result. Each county is its 2024 presidential margin moved by its state's projected swing; set a national vote and every state, district and county moves by the same amount from our projection. Colours run in 100 steps from a safe Republican to a safe Democratic margin. Boundaries: US Census Bureau.

Result

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
James A. Garfield won	Republican	93,939	62.3%
Winfield Scott Hancock	Democratic	53,314	35.4%
All other candidates		3,553	2.4%
Total		150,806

Every county

County	Democrat	Republican	Others	Total	Margin
Hennepin	4,103 32.7%	8,036 64.1%	390	12,529	R+31.4
Ramsey	4,586 51.4%	4,334 48.6%		8,920	D+2.8
Goodhue	1,354 25.1%	4,040 74.8%	8	5,402	R+49.7
Winona	2,555 48.1%	2,572 48.4%	184	5,311	R+0.3
Fillmore	846 15.9%	3,216 60.6%	1,246	5,308	R+44.6
Blue Earth	1,821 39.9%	2,729 59.8%	12	4,562	R+19.9
Rice	1,761 39.8%	2,493 56.3%	176	4,430	R+16.5
Olmsted	1,558 36.8%	2,486 58.8%	185	4,229	R+21.9
Wabasha	1,867 47.8%	2,040 52.2%		3,907	R+4.4
Stearns	2,469 63.4%	1,415 36.4%	8	3,892	D+27.1
Washington	1,508 42.1%	2,067 57.7%	9	3,584	R+15.6
Wright	1,317 38.3%	2,110 61.3%	15	3,442	R+23.0
Otter Tail	772 22.7%	2,628 77.1%	7	3,407	R+54.5
Dakota	1,742 51.6%	1,610 47.7%	26	3,378	D+3.9
Le Sueur	1,882 57.6%	1,383 42.3%	1	3,266	D+15.3
Houston	1,297 40.0%	1,907 58.8%	41	3,245	R+18.8
Mower	861 26.9%	2,088 65.3%	248	3,197	R+38.4
Freeborn	625 19.8%	2,461 78.2%	63	3,149	R+58.3
Faribault	734 27.7%	1,863 70.4%	51	2,648	R+42.6
Steele	944 35.7%	1,642 62.1%	60	2,646	R+26.4
Scott	1,776 68.0%	834 31.9%	1	2,611	D+36.1
Carver	1,148 47.0%	1,294 53.0%		2,442	R+6.0
Waseca	963 40.9%	1,381 58.6%	12	2,356	R+17.7
Polk	667 28.9%	1,638 71.1%		2,305	R+42.1
Dodge	600 26.0%	1,702 73.9%	2	2,304	R+47.8
Meeker	564 24.6%	1,334 58.1%	399	2,297	R+33.5
McLeod	1,031 48.1%	1,111 51.8%	2	2,144	R+3.7
Renville	598 29.2%	1,452 70.8%		2,050	R+41.7
Sibley	1,061 52.1%	970 47.6%	5	2,036	D+4.5
Nicollet	734 36.5%	1,273 63.4%	2	2,009	R+26.8
Brown	708 35.4%	1,293 64.6%		2,001	R+29.2
Kandiyohi	150 8.0%	1,608 85.3%	128	1,886	R+77.3
Douglas	295 17.0%	1,433 82.7%	4	1,732	R+65.7
Anoka	523 34.1%	975 63.6%	36	1,534	R+29.5
Chisago	252 16.8%	1,246 83.1%	1	1,499	R+66.3
Swift	566 38.5%	899 61.1%	6	1,471	R+22.6
Lyon	195 14.6%	1,141 85.3%	2	1,338	R+70.7
Clay	348 27.4%	920 72.4%	2	1,270	R+45.0
Morrison	667 57.4%	495 42.6%		1,162	D+14.8
Stevens	513 44.5%	638 55.4%	1	1,152	R+10.9
Martin	190 17.0%	863 77.1%	66	1,119	R+60.1
St. Louis	418 37.5%	698 62.5%		1,116	R+25.1
Redwood	217 20.0%	866 79.7%	4	1,087	R+59.7
Todd	361 33.5%	664 61.5%	54	1,079	R+28.1
Chippewa	161 15.2%	860 81.4%	35	1,056	R+66.2
Pope	111 10.7%	924 89.3%		1,035	R+78.6
Watonwan	220 22.8%	745 77.0%	2	967	R+54.3
Nobles	227 24.0%	693 73.4%	24	944	R+49.4
Yellow Medicine	70 7.6%	854 92.2%	2	926	R+84.7
Lac Qui Parle	47 5.1%	878 94.9%		925	R+89.8
Jackson	126 13.9%	767 84.8%	11	904	R+70.9
Isanti	64 7.1%	839 92.9%		903	R+85.8
Cottonwood	128 15.1%	717 84.6%	3	848	R+69.5
Becker	138 16.6%	693 83.4%		831	R+66.8
Rock	165 20.2%	653 79.8%		818	R+59.7
Murray	184 24.7%	557 74.9%	3	744	R+50.1
Big Stone	254 36.1%	450 63.9%		704	R+27.8
Sherburne	212 32.4%	431 65.9%	11	654	R+33.5
Grant	43 6.7%	596 93.3%		639	R+86.5
Benton	355 58.6%	251 41.4%		606	D+17.2
Lincoln	112 19.3%	468 80.7%		580	R+61.4
Crow Wing	227 40.9%	328 59.1%		555	R+18.2
Pipestone	171 32.3%	358 67.7%		529	R+35.3
Wadena	107 22.4%	366 76.6%	5	478	R+54.2
Pine	235 51.5%	221 48.5%		456	D+3.1
Carlton	229 51.5%	216 48.5%		445	D+2.9
Mille Lacs	101 27.6%	265 72.4%		366	R+44.8
Wilkin	94 26.5%	261 73.5%		355	R+47.0
Kittson	73 31.6%	158 68.4%		231	R+36.8
Marshall	88 40.9%	127 59.1%		215	R+18.1
Traverse	85 41.9%	118 58.1%		203	R+16.3
Cass	68 34.2%	131 65.8%		199	R+31.7
Kanabec	48 32.2%	101 67.8%		149	R+35.6
Aitkin	24 34.8%	45 65.2%		69	R+30.4
Lake	0 0.0%	20 100.0%		20	R+100.0

Counties as they stood in 1880; some have since been split, merged or renamed. Margin: the Democrat's share of all votes minus the Republican's. Sources and how the results were checked.

Minnesota in every presidential election we hold

Year	Winner	Margin
2024	Kamala Harris (D)	D+4.2
2020	Joe Biden (D)	D+7.1
2016	Hillary Clinton (D)	D+1.5
2012	Barack Obama (D)	D+7.7
2008	Barack Obama (D)	D+10.2
2004	John Kerry (D)	D+3.5
2000	Al Gore (D)	D+2.4
1996	Bill Clinton (D)	D+16.1
1992	Bill Clinton (D)	D+11.6
1988	Michael Dukakis (D)	D+7.0
1984	Walter Mondale (D)	D+0.2
1980	Jimmy Carter (D)	D+3.9
1976	Jimmy Carter (D)	D+12.9
1972	Richard Nixon (R)	R+5.5
1968	Hubert Humphrey (D)	D+12.5
1964	Lyndon B. Johnson (D)	D+27.8
1960	John F. Kennedy (D)	D+1.4
1956	Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)	R+7.6
1952	Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)	R+11.2
1948	Harry S. Truman (D)	D+17.3
1944	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+5.5
1940	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+3.8
1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+30.8
1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+23.6
1928	Herbert Hoover (R)	R+16.9
1924	Calvin Coolidge (R)	R+44.4
1920	Warren G. Harding (R)	R+51.2
1916	Charles Evans Hughes (R)	R+0.1
1912	Theodore Roosevelt (other)
1908	William Howard Taft (R)	R+26.2
1904	Theodore Roosevelt (R)	R+55.1
1900	William McKinley (R)	R+24.5
1896	William McKinley (R)	R+15.4
1892	Benjamin Harrison (R)	R+8.2
1888	Benjamin Harrison (R)	R+14.5
1884	James G. Blaine (R)	R+21.9
1880	James A. Garfield (R)	R+26.9
1876	Rutherford B. Hayes (R)	R+19.4
1872	Ulysses S. Grant (R)	R+22.7
1868	Ulysses S. Grant (R)	R+21.8

1880 presidential election in Minnesota

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