1984 United States presidential election in Minnesota

none June 2025 September 2023 1984 United States presidential election 1984 United States presidential election in Minnesota Minnesota 1983 File:Flag of Minnesota (1983-2024).svg presidential no 1980 United States presidential election in Minnesota 1980 1988 United States presidential election in Minnesota 70.94%http://www.sos.state.mn.us/election-administration-campaigns/data-maps/historical-voter-turnout-statistics/ Office of the State Of Minnesota Secretary of State www.sos.state.mn.us en July 22, 2017 1988 November 6, 1984 x200px File:Ronald Reagan 1985 presidential portrait (4x5 cropped).jpg Ronald Reagan Independent-Republicans of Minnesota California George H. W. Bush 0 1,032,603 49.54% Walter Mondale 1977 vice presidential portrait (cropped3).jpg Walter Mondale Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party Minnesota Geraldine Ferraro 10 1,036,364 49.72% 320px County results 320px Congressional district results 320px Precinct results 350px Mondale #B9D7FF 40–50% #86B6F2 50–60% #4389E3 60–70% #1666CB 70–80% #0645B4 80–90% #002B84 90–100% Reagan #F2B3BE 40–50% #E27F90 50–60% #CC2F4A 60–70% #D40000 70–80% #AA0000 80–90% #800000 90–100% Other #808080 No Votes #D4C4DC Tie President Ronald Reagan Republican Party of Minnesota Ronald Reagan Republican Party of Minnesota 250px|thumb|right|Mondale and former President Jimmy Carter celebrate Mondale's March 13th successes in the 1984 primaries, Minneapolis, Minnesota. The 1984 United States presidential election in Minnesota took place on November 6, 1984, as part of the 1984 United States presidential election. Voters chose ten representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Minnesota voted for the DFL candidate, former Vice President Walter Mondale. He narrowly won his home state over incumbent President Ronald Reagan by just 3,761 votes, giving him his only state victory in the election (Mondale also carried the District of Columbia), resulting in the state weighing in at around 18 percentage points more Democratic than the nation at large. Minnesota was the only state not to back Reagan in either of his two presidential campaigns. Although Mondale won only twenty of the state's 87 counties – making Reagan the only presidential nominee to win a majority of counties in every state – his large majorities in the heavily unionized Iron Range of the northeast overbalanced Reagan's majorities in the more Republican west of the state. Had Reagan overcome Mondale's 3,761 vote margin, he would have been the first nominee since 1820 to carry all the states, with Nixon's 1972 49-state victory being less narrow both on account of Massachusetts's 14 electoral votes and the margin of 220,000 votes (nearly 9%). As Reagan won all 49 other states in 1984, this established Minnesota's status as the state with the longest streak of voting Democratic. As of 2024, it still has not voted for a Republican presidential candidate since Richard Nixon carried it when he was re-elected in 1972, though this remains the closest that a Republican presidential candidate has come to carrying the state since then. However, the District of Columbia has voted Democratic in all presidential elections since 1964, when it was first granted the right to vote in presidential elections. As of 2020, only five of the 20 counties Mondale won in 1984 were won by either Hillary Clinton in 2016 or Joe Biden in 2020. Some examples of counties that have been lost to the Republican Party include those after 1996 (Anoka County), after 2008 (Aitkin County), or after 2012 (Itasca County). Carlton County also abandoned the Democrats after 2020, leaving just four Mondale counties to also vote for Kamala Harris in 2024. Minnesota regenerated as a left-leaning force in the 1990s, late 2000s, and early 2010s, but has become a Democratic-leaning state in the 21st century, ironically with many former rural Mondale counties voting Republican in the 21st century. As Mondale won the state with a plurality, he became the only major party nominee to fail to get a majority of the vote in any state since William Howard Taft in 1912. Lac qui Parle County would not vote Republican again until 2016. Despite Mondale carrying his home state, Republican Senator Rudy Boschwitz was re-elected the same night. When Reagan was asked in December 1984 what he wanted for Christmas, he joked, "Well, Minnesota would have been nice".https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ATQdAAAAIBAJ&pg=4591%2C2286313 Minnesota heads Reagan's wish list The Tuscaloosa News December 4, 1984 Associated Press July 18, 2012 Tuscaloosa, Alabama 27 This was also the first time in history that a Republican president was elected twice without ever carrying Minnesota at least once, and the first of any party since Woodrow Wilson did so in 1916. This feat has since been repeated twice, in 2004 and 2024. Results 1984 United States presidential election in Minnesotahttp://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1984&f=1&off=0&elect=0&fips=27&submit=Retrieve January 28, 2009 1984 Presidential Election Results – Minnesota Dave Leip's U.S. Election AtlasMinnesota Secretary of State, "Voter Participation and Vote for President and Vice President, ... November 6, 1984 General Election," The Minnesota Legislative Manual 1985-1986 (St. Paul, 1985)PartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes Democratic-Farmer-Labor Walter Mondale 1,036,364 49.72% 10 Republican Ronald Reagan (incumbent) 1,032,603 49.54% 0 Independent Democrat Lyndon LaRouche 3,865 0.19% 0 Socialist Workers Melvin Mason 3,180 0.15% 0 Libertarian David Bergland 2,996 0.14% 0 America First Bob Richards 2,377 0.11% 0 Citizens Sonia Johnson 1,219 0.06% 0 Write-ins Write-ins 723 0.03% 0 Communist Gus Hall 630 0.03% 0 Workers League Edward Winn 260 0.01% 0 New Alliance Dennis Serrette 232 0.01% 0 Invalid or blank votes — Totals 2,084,449 100.00% 10 Voter turnout 68% — Results by county County Walter MondaleDFL Ronald ReaganRepublican Various candidatesOther parties Margin Total votes cast # % # % # % # % Aitkin 3,943 53.17% 3,422 46.14% 51 0.69% 521 7.03% 7,416 Anoka 50,305 51.63% 46,578 47.80% 557 0.57% 3,727 3.83% 97,440 Becker 5,456 41.65% 7,553 57.65% 92 0.70% -2,097 -16.00% 13,101 Beltrami 7,481 49.88% 7,414 49.43% 103 0.69% 67 0.45% 14,998 Benton 4,922 41.42% 6,830 57.48% 131 1.10% -1,908 -16.06% 11,883 Big Stone 1,994 51.83% 1,821 47.34% 32 0.83% 173 4.49% 3,847 Blue Earth 11,877 45.08% 14,298 54.27% 172 0.65% -2,421 -9.19% 26,347 Brown 4,469 34.44% 8,399 64.72% 109 0.84% -3,930 -30.28% 12,977 Carlton 9,189 64.70% 4,877 34.34% 137 0.96% 4,312 30.36% 14,203 Carver 6,725 35.75% 11,963 63.60% 121 0.64% -5,238 -27.85% 18,809 Cass 4,773 41.61% 6,619 57.71% 78 0.68% -1,846 -16.10% 11,470 Chippewa 3,047 43.01% 3,964 55.95% 74 1.04% -917 -12.94% 7,085 Chisago 6,683 51.21% 6,279 48.12% 87 0.67% 404 3.09% 13,049 Clay 10,294 46.84% 11,565 52.62% 119 0.54% -1,271 -5.78% 21,978 Clearwater 1,917 47.63% 2,066 51.33% 42 1.04% -149 -3.70% 4,025 Cook 1,129 47.82% 1,219 51.63% 13 0.55% -90 -3.81% 2,361 Cottonwood 3,073 41.61% 4,275 57.89% 37 0.50% -1,202 -16.28% 7,385 Crow Wing 8,719 43.10% 11,362 56.16% 151 0.75% -2,643 -13.06% 20,232 Dakota 49,125 46.83% 55,119 52.54% 667 0.64% -5,994 -5.71% 104,911 Dodge 2,786 38.36% 4,428 60.97% 48 0.66% -1,642 -22.61% 7,262 Douglas 5,444 37.43% 9,005 61.92% 94 0.65% -3,561 -24.49% 14,543 Faribault 3,993 41.01% 5,690 58.44% 53 0.54% -1,697 -17.43% 9,736 Fillmore 4,351 40.44% 6,342 58.94% 67 0.62% -1,991 -18.50% 10,760 Freeborn 9,338 52.26% 8,413 47.09% 116 0.65% 925 5.17% 17,867 Goodhue 8,679 43.44% 11,171 55.92% 128 0.64% -2,492 -12.48% 19,978 Grant 1,867 46.73% 2,111 52.84% 17 0.43% -244 -6.11% 3,995 Hennepin 272,401 51.47% 253,921 47.98% 2,912 0.55% 18,480 3.49% 529,234 Houston 3,512 37.99% 5,645 61.06% 88 0.95% -2,133 -23.07% 9,245 Hubbard 2,806 37.50% 4,621 61.76% 55 0.74% -1,815 -24.26% 7,482 Isanti 5,378 48.38% 5,660 50.91% 79 0.71% -282 -2.53% 11,117 Itasca 11,455 54.68% 9,306 44.42% 187 0.89% 2,149 10.26% 20,948 Jackson 3,437 51.89% 3,131 47.27% 55 0.83% 306 4.62% 6,623 Kanabec 2,660 46.47% 3,027 52.88% 37 0.65% -367 -6.41% 5,724 Kandiyohi 8,402 46.41% 9,539 52.69% 163 0.90% -1,137 -6.28% 18,104 Kittson 1,610 48.07% 1,716 51.24% 23 0.69% -106 -3.17% 3,349 Koochiching 4,238 54.74% 3,466 44.77% 38 0.49% 772 9.97% 7,742 Lac qui Parle 2,685 48.84% 2,731 49.68% 81 1.47% -46 -0.84% 5,497 Lake 4,468 68.43% 2,003 30.68% 58 0.89% 2,465 37.75% 6,529 Lake of the Woods 824 42.47% 1,094 56.39% 22 1.13% -270 -13.92% 1,940 Le Sueur 5,070 45.47% 6,033 54.10% 48 0.43% -963 -8.63% 11,151 Lincoln 1,827 48.04% 1,905 50.09% 71 1.87% -78 -2.05% 3,803 Lyon 5,389 42.57% 7,170 56.64% 100 0.79% -1,781 -14.07% 12,659 Mahnomen 1,241 47.79% 1,328 51.14% 28 1.08% -87 -3.35% 2,597 Marshall 2,705 43.58% 3,433 55.31% 69 1.11% -728 -11.73% 6,207 Martin 4,673 38.80% 7,308 60.67% 64 0.53% -2,635 -21.87% 12,045 McLeod 4,864 35.43% 8,728 63.58% 135 0.98% -3,864 -28.15% 13,727 Meeker 4,156 42.76% 5,511 56.70% 53 0.55% -1,355 -13.94% 9,720 Mille Lacs 4,011 47.92% 4,307 51.45% 53 0.63% -296 -3.53% 8,371 Morrison 6,225 44.85% 7,556 54.44% 99 0.71% -1,331 -9.59% 13,880 Mower 12,498 60.53% 8,054 39.01% 95 0.46% 4,444 21.52% 20,647 Murray 2,741 49.17% 2,780 49.87% 54 0.97% -39 -0.70% 5,575 Nicollet 5,789 43.37% 7,472 55.97% 88 0.66% -1,683 -12.60% 13,349 Nobles 4,619 48.09% 4,876 50.77% 110 1.15% -257 -2.68% 9,605 Norman 2,202 50.31% 2,152 49.17% 23 0.53% 50 1.14% 4,377 Olmsted 16,335 36.44% 28,129 62.76% 359 0.80% -11,794 -26.32% 44,823 Otter Tail 9,714 38.02% 15,664 61.30% 173 0.68% -5,950 -23.28% 25,551 Pennington 2,913 44.89% 3,536 54.49% 40 0.62% -623 -9.60% 6,489 Pine 5,223 53.41% 4,493 45.95% 63 0.64% 730 7.46% 9,779 Pipestone 2,391 43.46% 3,043 55.32% 67 1.22% -652 -11.86% 5,501 Polk 7,033 44.56% 8,617 54.60% 132 0.84% -1,584 -10.04% 15,782 Pope 2,757 47.03% 3,064 52.27% 41 0.70% -307 -5.24% 5,862 Ramsey 141,623 59.15% 95,667 39.95% 2,153 0.90% 45,956 19.20% 239,443 Red Lake 1,294 51.91% 1,184 47.49% 15 0.60% 110 4.42% 2,493 Redwood 2,957 32.64% 6,020 66.45% 82 0.91% -3,063 -33.81% 9,059 Renville 3,972 41.25% 5,571 57.86% 86 0.89% -1,599 -16.61% 9,629 Rice 10,880 50.55% 10,456 48.58% 189 0.88% 424 1.97% 21,525 Rock 2,188 42.11% 2,971 57.18% 37 0.71% -783 -15.07% 5,196 Roseau 2,319 39.91% 3,445 59.28% 47 0.81% -1,126 -19.37% 5,811 St. Louis 77,683 68.83% 34,162 30.27% 1,013 0.90% 43,521 38.56% 112,858 Scott 9,452 42.71% 12,573 56.81% 108 0.49% -3,121 -14.10% 22,133 Sherburne 6,140 43.98% 7,738 55.43% 82 0.59% -1,598 -11.45% 13,960 Sibley 2,761 36.97% 4,638 62.10% 69 0.92% -1,877 -25.13% 7,468 Stearns 20,944 40.55% 30,216 58.51% 485 0.94% -9,272 -17.96% 51,645 Steele 5,060 36.38% 8,780 63.12% 70 0.50% -3,720 -26.74% 13,910 Stevens 2,451 42.66% 3,251 56.58% 44 0.77% -800 -13.92% 5,746 Swift 3,531 54.42% 2,893 44.59% 64 0.99% 638 9.83% 6,488 Todd 4,657 41.19% 6,585 58.25% 63 0.56% -1,928 -17.06% 11,305 Traverse 1,325 48.30% 1,399 51.00% 19 0.69% -74 -2.70% 2,743 Wabasha 3,872 41.87% 5,299 57.31% 76 0.82% -1,427 -15.44% 9,247 Wadena 2,454 36.13% 4,306 63.40% 32 0.47% -1,852 -27.27% 6,792 Waseca 3,527 38.80% 5,509 60.60% 55 0.60% -1,982 -21.80% 9,091 Washington 28,527 49.23% 29,046 50.13% 369 0.64% -519 -0.90% 57,942 Watonwan 2,425 40.57% 3,526 58.98% 27 0.45% -1,101 -18.41% 5,978 Wilkin 1,410 37.14% 2,367 62.36% 19 0.50% -957 -25.22% 3,796 Winona 9,577 43.99% 11,981 55.03% 212 0.97% -2,404 -11.04% 21,770 Wright 12,486 44.45% 15,399 54.82% 205 0.73% -2,913 -10.37% 28,090 Yellow Medicine 3,018 43.64% 3,819 55.22% 79 1.14% -801 -11.58% 6,916Totals1,036,36449.72%1,032,60349.54%15,4820.74%3,7610.18%2,084,449 thumb|County Flips: Democratic #92c5de Hold #0671b0 Gain from Republican Republican #f48882 Hold #ca0120 Gain from Democratic Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic Big Stone Freeborn Jackson Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican 20em Clearwater Dakota Isanti Kanabec Mille Lacs Morrison Scott Sherburne Washington Wright See also 1984 United States presidential election in the District of Columbia, the only other place that voted Democratic in the 1984 presidential election. 1972 United States presidential election in Massachusetts, the only state to vote Democratic in 1972, like Minnesota was in 1984. 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