United States presidential election in Minnesota, 2016 (Ferguson Scenario)



The 2016 United States presidential election in Minnesota took place on November 8, 2016, in Minnesota as part of the 2016 United States presidential election.

The Democratic Party candidate, incumbent President Henry T. Ferguson, won the state over U.S. Senator William H. Pryor, Jr. of Alabama by a margin of 817,597 votes, or 27.76 percent. Ferguson went on to win the election nationally, by a landslide margin of 22.29 percent of the popular vote. Pryor carried only four states, including his home state of Alabama, along with the adjacent Deep Southern states of Georgia, Mississippi, and South Carolina.

In the 2016 election, President Ferguson carried Minnesota by a margin of victory which hadn't been seen in a presidential election since Lyndon B. Johnson's triumph over Barry Goldwater in 1964. This margin of victory was aided by the fact that Amy Klobuchar, once the state's U.S. Senator and now Ferguson's Vice-President, was on the ticket. Nationally, no candidate since James Monroe's re-election in 1820 has won as great a percentage of the popular vote as did Ferguson in 2016, nor has any candidate since.

Ferguson won all but two of Minnesota's 87 counties, becoming the first Democrat to carry Carver, Sibley, and Otter Tail Counties since Franklin D. Roosevelt did so in 1936.