Politics & Government
MAP: Which Minnesota Counties Did Trump Win In 2016?
Hillary Clinton only won nine of Minnesota's 87 counties in 2016, but they were big enough to give her the state.
MINNESOTA — Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is hoping he can continue his party's streak of winning Minnesota, which dates back to 1972. In 2016, Donald Trump came within 45,000 votes — or less than two percentage points — of winning the state.
Hillary Clinton only won nine of Minnesota's 87 counties in 2016, but they were big enough to give her the state. However, by the time Minnesota was called for Clinton, most analysts had already projected a Trump victory.
Here are the Minnesota counties that went for Clinton in 2016:
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- Ramsey County (Clinton won with a 39.12 percent margin of victory)
- Hennepin County (Clinton won by 34.93 percent)
- Cook County (Clinton won by 22.27 percent)
- St. Louis County (11.69 percent)
- Dakota County (Clinton won by 4.71 percent)
- Lake County (2.22 percent)
- Washington County (Clinton won by 1.84 percent)
- Olmsted County (Clinton won by .75 percent)
Trump won the vast majority of Minnesota counties by over 15 percent. His largest margin of victory was in Lake of the Woods County, which he won with a margin of victory but 44.02 percent.
Here are the Minnesota counties that went for Trump in 2016:
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- Becker County
- Beltrami County
- Benton County
- Big Stone County
- Blue Earth County
- Brown County
- Carlton County
- Carver County
- Cass County
- Chippewa County
- Chisago County
- Clay County
- Clearwater County
- Cottonwood County
- Crow Wing County
- Dodge County
- Douglas County
- Faribault County
- Fillmore County
- Freeborn County
- Goodhue County
- Grant County
- Houston County
- Hubbard County
- Isanti County
- Itasca County
- Jackson County
- Kanabec County
- Kandiyohi County
- Kittson County
- Koochiching County
- Lac qui Parle County
- Lake of the Woods County
- Le Sueur County
- Lincoln County
- Lyon County
- Mahnomen County
- Marshall County
- Martin County
- McLeod County
- Meeker County
- Mille Lacs County
- Morrison County
- Mower County
- Murray County
- Nicollet County
- Nobles County
- Norman County
- Otter Tail County
- Pennington County
- Pine County
- Pipestone County
- Polk County
- Pope County
- Red Lake County
- Redwood County
- Renville County
- Rice County
- Rock County
- Roseau County
- Scott County
- Sherburne County
- Sibley County
- Stearns County
- Steele County
- Stevens County
- Swift County
- Todd County
- Traverse County
- Wabasha County
- Wadena County
- Waseca County
- Watonwan County
- Wilkin County
- Winona County
- Wright County
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