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The 2024 United States presidential election in Minnesota took place on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, as part of the 2024 United States elections in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. Minnesota voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote. The state of Minnesota has 10 electoral votes in the Electoral College, following reapportionment due to the 2020 United States census in which the state neither gained nor lost a seat.
An upper Midwestern state at the western end of the Great Lakes, Minnesota is seen as a moderately blue state. It has the longest active streak of voting for Democratic presidential nominees of any U.S. state; the last Republican to win Minnesota was Richard Nixon in 1972, and it was also the only state to not back Ronald Reagan in 1984. However, presidential elections in Minnesota have consistently been competitive in the 21st century, with no Democrat carrying the state by double digits with the exception of Barack Obama in 2008. Minnesota was considered to be a Democratic-leaning state in this election.
Incumbent Democratic president Joe Biden was running for reelection to a second term and became the Democratic presumptive nominee, but he withdrew from the race on July 21. He then endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, who launched her presidential campaign the same day. The Republican nominee was former president Donald Trump. Independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has qualified for the ballot. Harris selected Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate. This decision was seen as a strategic effort to bolster support in the Midwest as well as among progressives. Walz's local popularity, progressive stances, and his record of addressing state-level issues were expected to positively influence voter turnout in Minnesota, and potentially secure the state for the Democratic ticket.
Harris won Minnesota by 4.2 points, marking the thirteenth consecutive Democratic presidential win in the state. Her margin was lower than Biden's 7-point margin in 2020, but better than Hillary Clinton's 1.5-point margin in 2016. Trump flipped four counties (Carlton, Blue Earth, Nicollet, and Winona) that Biden had won in 2020, becoming the first Republican presidential nominee to win Carlton County since Herbert Hoover in 1928. This was the first election since 1988 in which Clay County did not back the winning candidate; during that election, it voted for Michael Dukakis over George H. W. Bush.