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1928 United States presidential election in Minnesota

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1928 United States presidential election in Minnesota

← 1924 November 6, 1928 1932 →
 
Nominee Herbert Hoover Al Smith
Party Republican Democratic
Home state California New York
Running mate Charles Curtis Joseph T. Robinson
Electoral vote 12 0
Popular vote 560,977 396,451
Percentage 57.77% 40.83%

County Results

President before election

Calvin Coolidge
Republican

Elected President

Herbert Hoover
Republican

The 1928 United States presidential election in Minnesota took place on November 6, 1928, as part of the 1928 United States presidential election. Voters chose 12 electors, or representatives to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Minnesota was won by the Republican candidate, former Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover won the state over Democratic Party candidate, New York governor Al Smith by a margin of 164,526 votes, or 16.94%. Nationally, Hoover won the election, with 444 electoral votes and a landslide 17.41% lead over Smith in the popular vote.

A Republican presidential nominee would not carry Minnesota again until Dwight D. Eisenhower did so in 1952. In fact, only two Republicans have since carried it; Eisenhower in 1952 and 1956, and Richard Nixon in 1972. This was the last presidential election in which a Republican won Minnesota without Richard Nixon being on the ticket. As of the 2024 presidential election, this is the last election in which St. Louis County voted for a Republican presidential candidate.[1]

This was the last election as of 2020 in which both Otter Tail County and Lake County voted for the same candidate. In 1932, Otter Tail would back Franklin Roosevelt and then vote for every ensuing Republican while Lake would be the sole Minnesota county to back Hoover's re-election bid before rapidly becoming one of the most Democratic counties in the state and never voting Republican again.[2]

Results

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1928 United States presidential election in Minnesota[3]
Party Candidate Votes Percentage Electoral votes
Republican Herbert Hoover 560,977 57.77% 12
Democratic Al Smith 396,451 40.83% 0
Socialist Norman Thomas 6,774 0.70% 0
Workers (Communist) William Z. Foster 4,853 0.50% 0
Socialist Labor Verne L. Reynolds 1,921 0.20% 0
Totals 970,976 100.00% 12

Results by county

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County Herbert Clark Hoover
Republican
Alfred Emmanuel Smith
Democratic
Various candidates
Other parties
Margin Total votes cast[a][4]
# % # % # % # %
Aitkin 3,951 70.10% 1,428 25.34% 257 4.56% 2,523 44.77% 5,636
Anoka 3,816 59.05% 2,571 39.79% 75 1.16% 1,245 19.27% 6,462
Becker 4,273 55.47% 3,253 42.23% 177 2.30% 1,020 13.24% 7,703
Beltrami 4,062 62.28% 2,221 34.05% 239 3.66% 1,841 28.23% 6,522
Benton 2,373 46.29% 2,732 53.30% 21 0.41% -359 -7.00% 5,126
Big Stone 1,641 43.20% 2,133 56.15% 25 0.66% -492 -12.95% 3,799
Blue Earth 8,120 60.71% 5,177 38.70% 79 0.59% 2,943 22.00% 13,376
Brown 3,611 40.05% 5,341 59.24% 64 0.71% -1,730 -19.19% 9,016
Carlton 4,582 64.01% 2,138 29.87% 438 6.12% 2,444 34.14% 7,158
Carver 3,983 57.72% 2,885 41.81% 33 0.48% 1,098 15.91% 6,901
Cass 3,781 67.02% 1,747 30.96% 114 2.02% 2,034 36.05% 5,642
Chippewa 3,547 62.77% 2,032 35.96% 72 1.27% 1,515 26.81% 5,651
Chisago 4,215 75.51% 1,297 23.24% 70 1.25% 2,918 52.28% 5,582
Clay 5,057 61.13% 3,128 37.81% 87 1.05% 1,929 23.32% 8,272
Clearwater 1,898 60.01% 1,189 37.59% 76 2.40% 709 22.42% 3,163
Cook 609 72.59% 219 26.10% 11 1.31% 390 46.48% 839
Cottonwood 3,405 67.45% 1,604 31.77% 39 0.77% 1,801 35.68% 5,048
Crow Wing 6,436 67.87% 2,851 30.06% 196 2.07% 3,585 37.80% 9,483
Dakota 6,019 45.18% 7,215 54.15% 89 0.67% -1,196 -8.98% 13,323
Dodge 3,569 74.49% 1,196 24.96% 26 0.54% 2,373 49.53% 4,791
Douglas 4,262 59.27% 2,829 39.34% 100 1.39% 1,433 19.93% 7,191
Faribault 5,885 69.21% 2,542 29.90% 76 0.89% 3,343 39.32% 8,503
Fillmore 7,719 77.77% 2,143 21.59% 63 0.63% 5,576 56.18% 9,925
Freeborn 7,815 72.70% 2,859 26.60% 76 0.71% 4,956 46.10% 10,750
Goodhue 9,752 72.93% 3,520 26.32% 100 0.75% 6,232 46.60% 13,372
Grant 2,057 54.33% 1,687 44.56% 42 1.11% 370 9.77% 3,786
Hennepin 125,472 60.19% 80,851 38.79% 2,124 1.02% 44,621 21.41% 208,447
Houston 3,615 64.87% 1,937 34.76% 21 0.38% 1,678 30.11% 5,573
Hubbard 2,291 65.76% 1,120 32.15% 73 2.10% 1,171 33.61% 3,484
Isanti 3,137 71.13% 1,191 27.01% 82 1.86% 1,946 44.13% 4,410
Itasca 5,103 58.95% 3,122 36.07% 431 4.98% 1,981 22.89% 8,656
Jackson 3,099 55.06% 2,503 44.47% 26 0.46% 596 10.59% 5,628
Kanabec 2,380 68.35% 1,040 29.87% 62 1.78% 1,340 38.48% 3,482
Kandiyohi 5,780 67.82% 2,481 29.11% 261 3.06% 3,299 38.71% 8,522
Kittson 1,957 56.81% 1,383 40.15% 105 3.05% 574 16.66% 3,445
Koochiching 2,599 53.67% 2,110 43.57% 134 2.77% 489 10.10% 4,843
Lac qui Parle 3,406 59.65% 2,245 39.32% 59 1.03% 1,161 20.33% 5,710
Lake 2,014 72.84% 618 22.35% 133 4.81% 1,396 50.49% 2,765
Lake of the Woods 781 51.45% 681 44.86% 56 3.69% 100 6.59% 1,518
Le Sueur 3,401 42.23% 4,615 57.30% 38 0.47% -1,214 -15.07% 8,054
Lincoln 1,952 48.20% 2,064 50.96% 34 0.84% -112 -2.77% 4,050
Lyon 4,058 54.93% 3,274 44.32% 56 0.76% 784 10.61% 7,388
McLeod 4,252 54.82% 3,445 44.41% 60 0.77% 807 10.40% 7,757
Mahnomen 606 29.90% 1,378 67.98% 43 2.12% -772 -38.09% 2,027
Marshall 3,738 61.58% 2,200 36.24% 132 2.17% 1,538 25.34% 6,070
Martin 5,110 64.10% 2,822 35.40% 40 0.50% 2,288 28.70% 7,972
Meeker 4,175 59.63% 2,761 39.43% 66 0.94% 1,414 20.19% 7,002
Mille Lacs 3,998 72.01% 1,436 25.86% 118 2.13% 2,562 46.15% 5,552
Morrison 3,846 42.18% 5,222 57.27% 51 0.56% -1,376 -15.09% 9,119
Mower 6,209 63.09% 3,587 36.45% 46 0.47% 2,622 26.64% 9,842
Murray 2,602 55.26% 2,078 44.13% 29 0.62% 524 11.13% 4,709
Nicollet 3,628 59.13% 2,466 40.19% 42 0.68% 1,162 18.94% 6,136
Nobles 3,676 56.01% 2,862 43.61% 25 0.38% 814 12.40% 6,563
Norman 3,308 67.39% 1,401 28.54% 200 4.07% 1,907 38.85% 4,909
Olmsted 8,334 63.63% 4,720 36.04% 44 0.34% 3,614 27.59% 13,098
Otter Tail 11,624 68.28% 4,990 29.31% 411 2.41% 6,634 38.97% 17,025
Pennington 2,506 65.29% 1,198 31.21% 134 3.49% 1,308 34.08% 3,838
Pine 4,278 56.53% 3,185 42.09% 105 1.39% 1,093 14.44% 7,568
Pipestone 2,578 61.40% 1,591 37.89% 30 0.71% 987 23.51% 4,199
Polk 7,215 56.08% 5,357 41.64% 294 2.29% 1,858 14.44% 12,866
Pope 3,382 66.13% 1,667 32.60% 65 1.27% 1,715 33.54% 5,114
Ramsey 53,054 47.84% 56,807 51.22% 1,049 0.95% -3,753 -3.38% 110,910
Red Lake 712 31.56% 1,507 66.80% 37 1.64% -795 -35.24% 2,256
Redwood 5,111 63.18% 2,899 35.84% 79 0.98% 2,212 27.35% 8,089
Renville 5,107 57.18% 3,731 41.77% 94 1.05% 1,376 15.41% 8,932
Rice 6,576 56.50% 5,014 43.08% 49 0.42% 1,562 13.42% 11,639
Rock 2,433 60.03% 1,607 39.65% 13 0.32% 826 20.38% 4,053
Roseau 2,618 63.16% 1,342 32.38% 185 4.46% 1,276 30.78% 4,145
Saint Louis 44,331 61.13% 25,401 35.03% 2,785 3.84% 18,930 26.10% 72,517
Scott 1,732 28.11% 4,419 71.71% 11 0.18% -2,687 -43.61% 6,162
Sherburne 2,437 69.08% 1,064 30.16% 27 0.77% 1,373 38.92% 3,528
Sibley 3,301 55.94% 2,553 43.26% 47 0.80% 748 12.68% 5,901
Stearns 6,459 28.56% 16,104 71.21% 52 0.23% -9,645 -42.65% 22,615
Steele 4,744 62.46% 2,826 37.21% 25 0.33% 1,918 25.25% 7,595
Stevens 2,275 60.70% 1,457 38.87% 16 0.43% 818 21.82% 3,748
Swift 2,791 49.72% 2,733 48.69% 89 1.59% 58 1.03% 5,613
Todd 5,682 59.81% 3,733 39.29% 85 0.89% 1,949 20.52% 9,500
Traverse 1,214 38.79% 1,899 60.67% 17 0.54% -685 -21.88% 3,130
Wabasha 3,944 55.84% 3,087 43.71% 32 0.45% 857 12.13% 7,063
Wadena 2,592 64.09% 1,343 33.21% 109 2.70% 1,249 30.89% 4,044
Waseca 3,251 56.94% 2,418 42.35% 41 0.72% 833 14.59% 5,710
Washington 6,113 59.06% 4,158 40.17% 80 0.77% 1,955 18.89% 10,351
Watonwan 3,306 69.69% 1,412 29.76% 26 0.55% 1,894 39.92% 4,744
Wilkin 1,874 53.90% 1,578 45.38% 25 0.72% 296 8.51% 3,477
Winona 7,459 53.16% 6,484 46.21% 88 0.63% 975 6.95% 14,031
Wright 6,011 56.57% 4,483 42.19% 132 1.24% 1,528 14.38% 10,626
Yellow Medicine 3,302 52.56% 2,861 45.54% 119 1.89% 441 7.02% 6,282
Totals 560,977 57.77% 396,458 40.83% 13,587 1.40% 164,519 16.94% 971,022

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Some of these figures differ from those at Dave Leip’s Atlas.

References

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  1. ^ Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
  2. ^ "Minnesota". Google Docs. Retrieved November 16, 2021.
  3. ^ "1928 Presidential Election Results, 1928". Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved October 5, 2016.
  4. ^ Robinson, Edgar Eugene; The Presidential Vote 1896-1932, pp. 234-241 ISBN 9780804716963