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ABOUT
MINNESOTA

2010 Census Reapportionment: As has been the case since 1964, Minnesota will remain at 10 electoral votes for the 2012, 2016 and 2020 presidential elections.



Minnesota, cobbled together from land that was part of the original United States, land acquired in the Louisiana Purchase and land acquired from Great Britain in 1818, joined the Union in May 1858. Minnesota voted exclusively Republican from 1860 through the onset of the Great Depression, except for 1912 when it sided with Progressive candidate (and former Republican) Theodore Roosevelt. From 1932 onward, the state has primarily voted Democratic, last voting Republican during Nixon’s landslide victory in 1972. In 1984, Minnesotans gave homegrown Senator Mondale his only state in the lopsided loss to Ronald Reagan. In 2008, Barack Obama defeated John McCain by 10%.