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Election 1996 Results

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1996 presidential election in Minnesota

Bill Clinton (Democrat) beat Bob Dole (Republican) in Minnesota in 1996, 51.1% to 35.0%, a margin of 16.1 points and 353,962 votes.

The Democratic hold continued from 1992, when Bill Clinton also won.

Democrats led in 76 of the 87 counties and Republicans in 11. The largest, Hennepin, cast 524,306 votes and went to the Democrat by 21.2 points. The closest was Olmsted, 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
Bill Clinton won	Democratic	1,120,438	51.1%
Bob Dole	Republican	766,476	35.0%
Ross Perot	Reform	257,704	11.8%
All other candidates		48,022	2.2%
Total		2,192,640

Every county

County	Democrat	Republican	Others	Total	Margin
Hennepin	285,126 54.4%	173,887 33.2%	65,293	524,306	D+21.2
Ramsey	133,878 58.7%	66,954 29.3%	27,381	228,213	D+29.3
Dakota	77,297 50.1%	57,244 37.1%	19,725	154,266	D+13.0
Anoka	63,756 51.4%	41,745 33.7%	18,521	124,022	D+17.7
Saint Louis	60,736 60.6%	25,553 25.5%	13,907	100,196	D+35.1
Washington	45,119 51.2%	31,219 35.5%	11,719	88,057	D+15.8
Stearns	24,238 44.0%	21,474 39.0%	9,333	55,045	D+5.0
Olmsted	22,857 43.9%	22,860 43.9%	6,327	52,044	level
Wright	15,542 44.6%	13,224 37.9%	6,108	34,874	D+6.6
Scott	14,657 44.6%	12,734 38.8%	5,456	32,847	D+5.9
Carver	11,554 41.0%	12,380 44.0%	4,234	28,168	R+2.9
Otter Tail	10,519 40.7%	11,808 45.7%	3,523	25,850	R+5.0
Blue Earth	12,420 49.2%	9,082 36.0%	3,759	25,261	D+13.2
Crow Wing	11,156 44.7%	10,095 40.4%	3,712	24,963	D+4.3
Rice	12,821 55.0%	7,016 30.1%	3,483	23,320	D+24.9
Sherburne	10,551 45.3%	8,699 37.4%	4,025	23,275	D+8.0
Winona	10,272 47.5%	7,955 36.8%	3,389	21,616	D+10.7
Clay	10,476 49.1%	8,764 41.1%	2,079	21,319	D+8.0
Itasca	10,706 52.3%	6,506 31.8%	3,261	20,473	D+20.5
Goodhue	9,931 48.9%	7,293 35.9%	3,094	20,318	D+13.0
Kandiyohi	9,009 48.6%	7,119 38.4%	2,404	18,532	D+10.2
Mower	10,413 57.6%	4,994 27.6%	2,656	18,063	D+30.0
Chisago	8,611 48.6%	5,984 33.7%	3,138	17,733	D+14.8
Freeborn	8,458 52.9%	5,166 32.3%	2,364	15,988	D+20.6
Beltrami	8,006 50.5%	5,806 36.6%	2,036	15,848	D+13.9
Douglas	6,450 41.7%	6,747 43.6%	2,267	15,464	R+1.9
Steele	6,974 46.6%	5,617 37.5%	2,373	14,964	D+9.1
McLeod	6,027 42.9%	5,474 38.9%	2,562	14,063	D+3.9
Carlton	8,052 57.9%	4,034 29.0%	1,829	13,915	D+28.9
Nicollet	6,772 48.9%	5,057 36.5%	2,013	13,842	D+12.4
Polk	6,369 46.9%	5,563 40.9%	1,655	13,587	D+5.9
Becker	5,911 44.2%	5,461 40.8%	2,002	13,374	D+3.4
Morrison	5,728 43.1%	5,054 38.0%	2,506	13,288	D+5.1
Benton	6,006 45.4%	4,835 36.5%	2,392	13,233	D+8.8
Isanti	6,041 46.6%	4,450 34.3%	2,464	12,955	D+12.3
Brown	4,864 39.4%	5,580 45.1%	1,915	12,359	R+5.8
Cass	5,437 45.2%	4,791 39.8%	1,801	12,029	D+5.4
Lyon	5,062 44.1%	4,932 43.0%	1,483	11,477	D+1.1
Le Sueur	5,457 48.7%	3,902 34.8%	1,850	11,209	D+13.9
Todd	4,520 42.2%	4,078 38.1%	2,103	10,701	D+4.1
Martin	4,718 44.9%	4,303 40.9%	1,496	10,517	D+3.9
Pine	5,432 52.7%	3,080 29.9%	1,796	10,308	D+22.8
Fillmore	4,732 48.0%	3,466 35.1%	1,663	9,861	D+12.8
Meeker	4,531 47.0%	3,428 35.6%	1,680	9,639	D+11.4
Wabasha	4,523 47.2%	3,452 36.1%	1,598	9,573	D+11.2
Houston	4,153 43.9%	3,674 38.9%	1,623	9,450	D+5.1
Nobles	4,106 45.3%	3,769 41.6%	1,186	9,061	D+3.7
Mille Lacs	4,336 48.9%	2,948 33.2%	1,591	8,875	D+15.6
Hubbard	3,802 43.6%	3,593 41.2%	1,316	8,711	D+2.4
Waseca	3,819 45.1%	3,171 37.4%	1,482	8,472	D+7.6
Faribault	3,817 46.2%	3,272 39.6%	1,173	8,262	D+6.6
Renville	3,956 48.0%	2,887 35.0%	1,395	8,238	D+13.0
Redwood	2,997 38.2%	3,700 47.1%	1,154	7,851	R+9.0
Dodge	3,233 43.5%	2,888 38.8%	1,314	7,435	D+4.6
Aitkin	3,810 51.5%	2,327 31.4%	1,267	7,404	D+20.0
Roseau	2,759 39.9%	2,988 43.2%	1,162	6,909	R+3.3
Koochiching	3,472 51.6%	2,080 30.9%	1,178	6,730	D+20.7
Sibley	2,769 41.7%	2,590 39.0%	1,288	6,647	D+2.7
Cottonwood	2,737 44.3%	2,633 42.7%	802	6,172	D+1.7
Chippewa	3,178 51.9%	2,119 34.6%	827	6,124	D+17.3
Wadena	2,480 41.1%	2,696 44.6%	864	6,040	R+3.6
Lake	3,388 56.2%	1,684 27.9%	957	6,029	D+28.3
Kanabec	2,927 49.2%	1,924 32.3%	1,097	5,948	D+16.9
Pennington	2,814 47.6%	2,129 36.0%	972	5,915	D+11.6
Jackson	2,727 46.7%	2,153 36.9%	959	5,839	D+9.8
Yellow Medicine	2,741 48.7%	2,006 35.7%	877	5,624	D+13.1
Pope	2,803 50.7%	1,992 36.0%	734	5,529	D+14.7
Stevens	2,741 50.2%	2,141 39.2%	573	5,455	D+11.0
Swift	3,054 57.3%	1,541 28.9%	735	5,330	D+28.4
Watonwan	2,534 47.9%	1,997 37.7%	760	5,291	D+10.1
Marshall	2,333 45.3%	2,068 40.1%	753	5,154	D+5.1
Rock	2,142 43.7%	2,169 44.2%	593	4,904	R+0.6
Murray	2,173 44.6%	1,907 39.2%	789	4,869	D+5.5
Pipestone	1,999 42.3%	2,096 44.4%	627	4,722	R+2.1
Lac Qui Parle	2,420 54.2%	1,447 32.4%	598	4,465	D+21.8
Norman	1,875 50.4%	1,392 37.4%	455	3,722	D+13.0
Grant	1,806 50.7%	1,284 36.0%	472	3,562	D+14.7
Clearwater	1,578 44.9%	1,423 40.5%	513	3,514	D+4.4
Lincoln	1,641 48.6%	1,199 35.5%	538	3,378	D+13.1
Wilkin	1,319 41.0%	1,508 46.8%	393	3,220	R+5.9
Big Stone	1,619 53.9%	990 33.0%	392	3,001	D+21.0
Kittson	1,394 50.7%	1,055 38.4%	300	2,749	D+12.3
Cook	1,169 46.2%	1,010 39.9%	350	2,529	D+6.3
Traverse	1,135 50.9%	775 34.8%	319	2,229	D+16.2
Mahnomen	1,026 46.4%	877 39.7%	306	2,209	D+6.7
Red Lake	1,053 50.0%	695 33.0%	358	2,106	D+17.0
Lake of the Woods	888 44.2%	814 40.5%	309	2,011	D+3.7

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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