United States presidential election in Minnesota, 2016
United States presidential election in Minnesota, 2016
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The 2016 United States presidential election in Minnesota will take place on November 8, 2016, as part of the 2016 general election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participate. .
On March 1, 2016, in the precinct caucuses, Minnesota voters expressed their preferences for the Democratic, Republican, and Libertarian parties' respective nominees for President.
Caucuses
Democratic caucuses
Democratic caucus results by county.
Bernie Sanders
Hillary Clinton
Tie
Bernie Sanders received the most votes and the most delegates in the precinct caucuses.[1]
The 2016 turnout was slightly lower than the 2008 tally of 214,066, when Obama won with 142,109 votes, to Clinton's 68,994.
| Minnesota Democratic caucuses, March 1, 2016 |
| Candidate |
Popular vote |
Estimated delegates |
| Count |
Percentage |
Pledged |
Unpledged |
Total |
| Bernie Sanders |
126,229 |
61.69% |
46 |
1 |
47 |
| Hillary Clinton |
78,381 |
38.31% |
31 |
13 |
44 |
| Uncommitted |
N/A |
0 |
2 |
2 |
| Total |
204,610 |
100% |
77 |
16 |
93 |
| Source: The Green Papers |
Bernie Sanders won every congressional district in Minnesota.[2]
Republican caucuses
Republican caucus results by county.
Marco Rubio
Ted Cruz
Donald Trump
Tie
| Minnesota Republican precinct caucuses, March 1, 2016 |
| Candidate |
Votes |
Percentage |
Actual delegate count |
| Bound |
Unbound |
Total |
 Marco Rubio |
41,184 |
36.16% |
17 |
0 |
17 |
| Ted Cruz |
33,142 |
29.10% |
13 |
0 |
13 |
| Donald Trump |
24,433 |
21.45% |
8 |
0 |
8 |
| Ben Carson |
8,407 |
7.38% |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| John Kasich |
6,531 |
5.73% |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Write-ins |
208 |
0.18% |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Jeb Bush (withdrawn) |
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0 |
0 |
0 |
| Unprojected delegates: |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Total: |
113,905 |
100.00% |
38 |
0 |
38 |
| Source: The Green Papers |
Some media outlets recorded the votes by congressional district, rather than by county. Rubio won districts 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul area as well as the southern part of the state. Cruz slightly won districts 6, 7 and 8 in the St. Cloud area and rural north.[2]
Green caucuses
The Green Party of Minnesota held caucuses on March 1 in Saint Paul, Minneapolis, Bemidji, White Bear Lake, Blaine, Grand Rapids, and Willmar.[3] Jill Stein won the caucuses with 84.3% of the vote. The delegates apportioned to each candidate will be decided at the state convention in St. Cloud, Minnesota in June.[4] The results of the caucuses are as follows:[5]
| Minnesota Green Party presidential caucus, March 1, 2016[6][7] |
| Candidate |
Votes |
Percentage |
National delegates |
| Jill Stein |
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84.3% |
7 |
| Sedinam Moyowasifza-Curry |
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5.9% |
- |
| William Kreml |
- |
4.8% |
- |
| Darryl Cherney |
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3.6% |
- |
| Kent Mesplay |
- |
1.2% |
- |
| Total |
- |
100.00% |
7 |
Libertarian caucus
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The Minnesota caucus was run on March 1, 2016, using ranked choice voting. Gary Johnson took over 75% of the 226 first-preference votes cast, with John McAfee a distant second on 11.5% and Austin Peterson third on 7.5%.[8]
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| Minnesota Libertarian presidential caucus, March 1, 2016[8] |
| Candidate |
Votes |
Percentage |
| Gary Johnson |
171 |
75.7% |
| John McAfee |
26 |
11.5% |
| Austin Petersen |
17 |
7.5% |
| Darryl Perry |
4 |
1.8% |
| Steve Kerbel |
2 |
0.9% |
| None of the above |
2 |
0.9% |
| Cecil Ince |
2 |
0.9% |
| Marc Allan Feldman |
1 |
0.4% |
| Shawna Joy Sterling |
1 |
0.4% |
| Joy Waymire |
0 |
0% |
| Jack Robinson, Jr. |
0 |
0% |
| Derrick Michael Reid |
0 |
0% |
| Rhett Smith |
0 |
0% |
| Total |
226 |
100% |
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See also
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