HarrisDemocratic50.9%1,656,979TrumpRepublican46.7%1,519,032KennedyWe The People0.7%24,001
D+4.2- Lead
- 137,947
- Total
- 3,253,920
- vs nation
- D+5.7
- Turnout
- 77.0%
presidential primaries
Nominating contests
Minnesota · which candidate this place backed in each party’s presidential nominating contest, cycle by cycle. A primary is a contest inside one party, so it has no Democratic–Republican margin and is not part of the general-election record above.
Akashic reports votes cast, not delegates awarded. The two can disagree: Clinton led the 2008 national primary popular vote by less than half a point and did not win the nomination.
| Party | 2008 | 2012 | 2016 | 2020 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Obama+34.2214,066 votescaucus | no contest record | Sanders+21.4204,766 votescaucus | Biden+8.8744,198 votesprimary | no contest record |
| Republicannot ingested | no contest record | no contest record | no contest record | no contest record | no contest record |
no contest record — Akashic holds no result for that party and cycle here. It is not a claim that no contest was held. Telling apart a contest that was cancelled, one that went uncontested, and one simply not yet ingested needs a nominating-contest calendar, which is a separate ingest from results and does not exist yet.
Republican presidential primaries are not yet ingested — the Republican series runs from 1856 and is in scope. The row is kept so its absence is visible: a Democratic-only panel would otherwise read as though no one else held a contest.
Akashic carries 10 states for 2012 and 3 states for 2024. Cycles in which an incumbent president seeks renomination are thin by nature — few states run a contested primary — so a sparse column is politics, not a hole in the record.
2020 field
744,198 votes cast across 87 counties reporting. The universe is the party's primary electorate, not everyone who lives here, so this is not comparable to a general-election turnout without that in mind.
- Biden✓287,55338.6%
- Sanders222,43129.9%
- Warren114,67415.4%
- Bloomberg61,8828.3%
- Klobuchar41,5305.6%
- Buttigieg7,6161.0%
- All others3,7080.5%
- Gabbard2,5040.3%
- Yang1,7490.2%
- Steyer5510.1%
“All others” is a residual bucket, not a candidate: it holds every name past the ones listed, including candidates who had already withdrawn but still drew votes. Shares are of the 87 counties reporting, and describe the contest as a whole — not any one county inside it.
Earlier cycles — 2016, 2008
2016 field
204,766 votes cast across 87 counties reporting. The universe is the party's primary electorate, not everyone who lives here, so this is not comparable to a general-election turnout without that in mind.
- Sanders✓124,32060.7%
- Clinton80,44639.3%
Caucus figures follow the state party’s reported measure, which can be state-delegate equivalents rather than raw attendees — shares are the honest comparison. Shares are of the 87 counties reporting, and describe the contest as a whole — not any one county inside it.
2008 field
214,066 votes cast across 87 counties reporting. The universe is the party's primary electorate, not everyone who lives here, so this is not comparable to a general-election turnout without that in mind.
- Obama✓142,10966.4%
- Clinton68,99432.2%
- All others2,9631.4%
“All others” is a residual bucket, not a candidate: it holds every name past the ones listed, including candidates who had already withdrawn but still drew votes. Caucus figures follow the state party’s reported measure, which can be state-delegate equivalents rather than raw attendees — shares are the honest comparison. Shares are of the 87 counties reporting, and describe the contest as a whole — not any one county inside it.
2020Democratic primary leaderBidenSandersKlobucharcolor = leader · depth = size of the lead
Every county with reported returns, filled by the candidate who led it — the most recent cycle Akashic carries here. Depth is the size of the lead, not a party margin; the surrounding faint geography is context, not coverage.
A county's fill says who led it and by how much. It does not say how the rest of the field did there — those shares are published statewide only.