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Election 1980 Results

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1980 presidential election in Minnesota

Jimmy Carter (Democrat) beat Ronald Reagan (Republican) in Minnesota in 1980, 46.5% to 42.6%, a margin of 3.9 points and 80,933 votes.

Minnesota voted 13.7 points more Democratic than the country as a whole, where the margin was R+9.7.

The Democratic hold continued from 1976, when Jimmy Carter also won.

Republicans led in 60 of the 87 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 27. The largest, Hennepin, cast 505,372 votes and went to the Democrat by 8.8 points. The closest was Nobles, where 3 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
Jimmy Carter won	Democratic	954,174	46.5%
Ronald Reagan	Republican	873,241	42.6%
John B. Anderson	Independent	174,990	8.5%
All other candidates		49,548	2.4%
Total		2,051,953

Every county

County	Democrat	Republican	Others	Total	Margin
Hennepin	239,592 47.4%	194,898 38.6%	70,882	505,372	D+8.8
Ramsey	124,774 53.6%	78,860 33.9%	29,110	232,744	D+19.7
St. Louis	69,403 60.5%	33,407 29.1%	11,864	114,674	D+31.4
Dakota	43,433 45.8%	40,708 43.0%	10,614	94,755	D+2.9
Anoka	45,532 51.8%	33,100 37.7%	9,211	87,843	D+14.2
Washington	25,634 46.7%	22,718 41.4%	6,550	54,902	D+5.3
Stearns	21,862 42.4%	24,888 48.3%	4,772	51,522	R+5.9
Olmsted	13,983 34.2%	22,704 55.5%	4,224	40,911	R+21.3
Wright	12,383 45.9%	12,293 45.5%	2,315	26,991	D+0.3
Blue Earth	10,930 41.8%	11,966 45.8%	3,242	26,138	R+4.0
Otter Tail	9,108 34.8%	15,091 57.7%	1,939	26,138	R+22.9
Winona	9,814 42.9%	10,332 45.1%	2,757	22,903	R+2.3
Clay	8,940 39.7%	10,447 46.4%	3,121	22,508	R+6.7
Itasca	12,134 54.6%	8,368 37.6%	1,726	22,228	D+16.9
Crow Wing	9,323 43.0%	10,844 50.0%	1,510	21,677	R+7.0
Rice	9,531 46.1%	8,168 39.5%	2,974	20,673	D+6.6
Mower	10,538 51.8%	7,908 38.9%	1,879	20,325	D+12.9
Goodhue	8,566 42.3%	9,329 46.1%	2,353	20,248	R+3.8
Scott	9,115 45.5%	9,018 45.0%	1,905	20,038	D+0.5
Carver	6,621 35.8%	9,909 53.6%	1,951	18,481	R+17.8
Kandiyohi	8,038 44.4%	8,480 46.9%	1,577	18,095	R+2.4
Freeborn	8,212 46.2%	8,475 47.7%	1,098	17,785	R+1.5
Polk	7,151 40.5%	9,036 51.2%	1,457	17,644	R+10.7
Beltrami	7,432 47.8%	6,481 41.7%	1,624	15,537	D+6.1
Carlton	8,822 59.5%	4,760 32.1%	1,251	14,833	D+27.4
Douglas	5,530 38.3%	7,778 53.8%	1,137	14,445	R+15.6
Steele	5,095 35.7%	7,805 54.7%	1,379	14,279	R+19.0
Brown	4,915 34.8%	8,051 57.0%	1,156	14,122	R+22.2
McLeod	4,987 35.5%	7,819 55.7%	1,229	14,035	R+20.2
Morrison	6,930 49.4%	6,296 44.9%	792	14,018	D+4.5
Nicollet	5,400 39.6%	6,436 47.2%	1,786	13,622	R+7.6
Sherburne	6,229 45.7%	6,035 44.3%	1,356	13,620	D+1.4
Becker	5,221 39.8%	6,848 52.1%	1,065	13,134	R+12.4
Lyon	5,626 43.6%	5,852 45.3%	1,433	12,911	R+1.8
Chisago	6,240 49.8%	5,017 40.1%	1,266	12,523	D+9.8
Martin	4,301 35.0%	7,057 57.4%	936	12,294	R+22.4
Todd	4,975 41.1%	6,451 53.3%	685	12,111	R+12.2
Benton	5,272 44.7%	5,513 46.8%	997	11,782	R+2.0
Le Sueur	5,161 44.4%	5,478 47.1%	986	11,625	R+2.7
Cass	4,717 41.1%	6,119 53.3%	649	11,485	R+12.2
Fillmore	4,010 35.4%	6,452 57.0%	850	11,312	R+21.6
Isanti	5,457 50.5%	4,480 41.4%	872	10,809	D+9.0
Faribault	3,620 34.5%	6,206 59.2%	655	10,481	R+24.7
Renville	4,058 38.9%	5,544 53.1%	842	10,444	R+14.2
Nobles	4,703 45.4%	4,706 45.4%	956	10,365	level
Meeker	4,238 42.0%	5,032 49.8%	825	10,095	R+7.9
Redwood	2,952 30.4%	5,993 61.8%	754	9,699	R+31.4
Pine	5,121 52.9%	3,899 40.2%	667	9,687	D+12.6
Houston	3,218 33.9%	5,582 58.9%	681	9,481	R+24.9
Wabasha	3,712 39.3%	4,986 52.7%	755	9,453	R+13.5
Waseca	3,535 38.0%	4,801 51.6%	965	9,301	R+13.6
Mille Lacs	4,443 49.3%	3,860 42.8%	710	9,013	D+6.5
Koochiching	4,181 50.7%	3,433 41.6%	636	8,250	D+9.1
Chippewa	3,164 39.1%	4,252 52.5%	681	8,097	R+13.4
Cottonwood	2,958 37.7%	4,258 54.3%	631	7,847	R+16.6
Aitkin	3,677 47.9%	3,396 44.3%	597	7,670	D+3.7
Sibley	2,521 33.0%	4,460 58.4%	661	7,642	R+25.4
Hubbard	2,840 37.8%	4,172 55.5%	501	7,513	R+17.7
Yellow Medicine	2,833 38.2%	4,004 54.0%	584	7,421	R+15.8
Pennington	3,101 41.8%	3,715 50.1%	600	7,416	R+8.3
Wadena	2,635 37.1%	4,089 57.6%	379	7,103	R+20.5
Dodge	2,698 38.0%	3,900 54.9%	502	7,100	R+16.9
Jackson	3,062 43.3%	3,391 48.0%	611	7,064	R+4.7
Lake	3,864 55.7%	2,414 34.8%	653	6,931	D+20.9
Swift	3,245 47.6%	2,943 43.1%	635	6,823	D+4.4
Marshall	2,636 38.9%	3,638 53.7%	501	6,775	R+14.8
Watonwan	2,442 37.1%	3,629 55.1%	516	6,587	R+18.0
Stevens	2,559 39.5%	3,283 50.7%	634	6,476	R+11.2
Roseau	2,616 41.4%	3,358 53.2%	343	6,317	R+11.7
Pipestone	2,392 38.3%	3,207 51.4%	644	6,243	R+13.1
Murray	2,714 43.9%	3,004 48.6%	468	6,186	R+4.7
Pope	2,527 41.1%	3,159 51.3%	467	6,153	R+10.3
Lac Qui Parle	2,457 41.6%	2,981 50.5%	465	5,903	R+8.9
Rock	2,089 36.6%	3,164 55.4%	460	5,713	R+18.8
Kanabec	2,654 48.2%	2,500 45.4%	354	5,508	D+2.8
Norman	2,253 46.2%	2,192 44.9%	435	4,880	D+1.3
Grant	1,822 42.6%	2,054 48.1%	396	4,272	R+5.4
Clearwater	1,955 47.3%	1,919 46.4%	263	4,137	D+0.9
Lincoln	1,640 39.8%	2,122 51.5%	359	4,121	R+11.7
Wilkin	1,496 36.4%	2,224 54.2%	387	4,107	R+17.7
Big Stone	1,814 44.3%	1,950 47.7%	327	4,091	R+3.3
Kittson	1,407 39.3%	1,875 52.4%	295	3,577	R+13.1
Traverse	1,258 41.5%	1,574 51.9%	198	3,030	R+10.4
Red Lake	1,318 48.7%	1,223 45.2%	166	2,707	D+3.5
Mahnomen	1,175 44.6%	1,275 48.4%	185	2,635	R+3.8
Cook	871 38.4%	1,147 50.6%	248	2,266	R+12.2
Lake Of The Woods	763 38.2%	1,052 52.6%	185	2,000	R+14.5

Counties as they stood in 1980; 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

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