{
 "topic": "senate",
 "site": "electiondata.dev",
 "place": {
  "id": "us-mn",
  "name": "Minnesota",
  "level": "us-state",
  "parent": "usa",
  "path": "us/mn",
  "slug": "mn",
  "state": "mn",
  "state_name": "Minnesota",
  "state_id": "us-mn"
 },
 "question": "How did Minnesota vote for the Senate?",
 "answer": {
  "verdict": "Amy Klobuchar (Democrat) won by 15.7 points",
  "value": 15.7,
  "unit": " pts",
  "digits": 1,
  "label": "Senate, 2024: winner's margin",
  "lines": [
   "Amy Klobuchar (Democrat) 56.2%, Royce White (Republican) 40.5%, Rebecca Whiting (Libertarian) 1.7%",
   "3,189,323 votes for Senate candidates"
  ]
 },
 "as_of": "2024",
 "as_of_label": "2024",
 "charts": [
  {
   "id": "senate-margin",
   "title": "Every regular Senate election in Minnesota since 1976",
   "description": "17 regular elections; Democrats were ahead in 11 and Republicans in 6.",
   "indicator": "Democratic candidate's share of Senate votes minus the Republican's, points (regular elections; special elections are in the table)",
   "subtitle": "Democratic share minus Republican share, in points. Above the line: the Democrat got more votes.",
   "x": {
    "kind": "year"
   },
   "y": {
    "digits": 1,
    "unit": " pts",
    "format": "party-margin"
   },
   "layers": [
    {
     "type": "bars",
     "name": "Margin",
     "base": 0,
     "points": [
      [
       1976,
       42.475,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1978,
       -16.178,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       1982,
       -6.029,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       1984,
       -16.799,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       1988,
       -15.259,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       1990,
       2.634,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1994,
       -4.952,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       1996,
       9.036,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2000,
       5.541,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2002,
       -1.688,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2006,
       20.12,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2008,
       0.011,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2012,
       34.701,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2014,
       10.243,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2018,
       24.096,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2020,
       5.239,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2024,
       15.7,
       "dem"
      ]
     ],
     "legend": [
      {
       "label": "Democrat ahead",
       "cls": "dem"
      },
      {
       "label": "Republican ahead",
       "cls": "rep"
      }
     ]
    }
   ]
  }
 ],
 "limits": [
  "Statewide totals say nothing about who voted or why.",
  "Candidates with a party's support under another name (Minnesota's DFL, New York's fusion lines) are counted with that party, as the MIT data's simplified party does; independents stay independents."
 ],
 "method": "Each candidate's votes are summed over every ballot line; blank, over- and under-votes are left out. The margin is the winner's share of the votes minus the runner-up's. A runoff, where held, is the result.",
 "sources": [
  {
   "name": "electiondata.dev senate-results, version 2026-10-25.247421eda6",
   "url": "https://electiondata.dev/",
   "license": "CC0 1.0"
  },
  {
   "name": "MIT Election Data and Science Lab, U.S. Senate statewide 1976-2024",
   "url": "https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/PEJ5QU",
   "license": "CC0 1.0"
  }
 ],
 "check": {
  "races": [
   {
    "year": 1976,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1912020,
    "votes": {
     "Hubert H. Humphrey": 1290736,
     "Jerry Brekke": 478602,
     "Paul Helm": 125612,
     "Bill Peterson": 9380,
     "Robin E. Miller": 5476,
     "Matt Savola": 2214
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1978,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1580622,
    "votes": {
     "Rudolph E. Boschwitz": 894092,
     "Wendell Anderson": 638375,
     "Sal Carlone": 23261,
     "William Peterson": 9856,
     "Brian John Coyle": 8083,
     "Jean T. Brust": 3891,
     "Leonard Richards": 2992
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1978,
    "special": true,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1558376,
    "votes": {
     "David Durenberger": 957908,
     "Bob Short": 538675,
     "Paul Helm": 45402,
     "Christine Frank": 11397,
     "Frederick Hewitt": 4116
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1982,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1804675,
    "votes": {
     "Dave Durenberger": 949207,
     "Mark Dayton": 840401,
     "Bill Onasch": 5897,
     "Fred G. Hewitt": 5870,
     "Jeffrey M. Miller": 3300
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1984,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 2066143,
    "votes": {
     "Rudy Boschwitz": 1199926,
     "Joan Anderson Growe": 852844,
     "Eleanor Garcia": 5351,
     "Richard Putman": 4653,
     "Jeffrey M. Miller": 3129
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1988,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 2093953,
    "votes": {
     "Dave Durenberger": 1176210,
     "Hubert H. \"skip\" Humphrey Iii": 856694,
     "Polly Mann": 44474,
     "Derrick P. Grimmer": 9016,
     "Arlen Overvig": 4039,
     "Wendy Lyons": 3105
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1990,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1808045,
    "votes": {
     "Paul David Wellstone": 911999,
     "Rudy Boschwitz": 864375,
     "Russell B. Bentley": 29820
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1994,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1772929,
    "votes": {
     "Rod Grams": 869653,
     "Ann Wynia": 781860,
     "Dean M. Barkley": 95400,
     "Candice E. Sjostrom": 15920,
     "Stephen Johnson": 5054,
     "Marea Himelgrin": 2428
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1996,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 2182905,
    "votes": {
     "Paul Wellstone": 1098430,
     "Rudy Boschwitz": 901194,
     "Dean Barkley": 152328,
     "Tim Davis": 14139,
     "Roy Ezra Carlton": 5428,
     "Howard B. Hanson": 4381,
     "Steve Johnson": 4321,
     "Thomas A. Fiske": 1554
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2000,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 2419520,
    "votes": {
     "Mark Dayton": 1181553,
     "Rod Grams": 1047474,
     "James (jim) Gibson": 140583,
     "David Daniels": 21447,
     "Rebecca Ellis": 12956,
     "David Swan": 8915,
     "Erik D. Pakieser": 6588
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2002,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 2254636,
    "votes": {
     "Norm Coleman": 1116697,
     "Walter F. Mondale": 1067246,
     "Jim Moore": 45139,
     "Paul Wellstone": 11381,
     "Ray Tricomo": 10119,
     "Miro Drago": 2254
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2006,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 2202772,
    "votes": {
     "Amy Klobuchar": 1278849,
     "Mark R. Kennedy": 835653,
     "Robert Fitzgerald": 71194,
     "Michael James Cavlan": 10714,
     "Ben Powers": 5408
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2008,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 2887646,
    "votes": {
     "Al Franken": 1212629,
     "Norm Coleman": 1212317,
     "Dean Barkley": 437505,
     "Charles Aldrich": 13923,
     "James Niemackl": 8907
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2012,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 2843207,
    "votes": {
     "Amy Klobuchar": 1854595,
     "Kurt Bills": 867974,
     "Stephen Williams": 73539,
     "Tim Davis": 30531,
     "Michael Cavlan": 13986
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2014,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1981528,
    "votes": {
     "Al Franken": 1053205,
     "Mike Mcfadden": 850227,
     "Steve Carlson": 47530,
     "Heather Johnson": 29685
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2018,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 2596879,
    "votes": {
     "Amy Klobuchar": 1566174,
     "Jim Newberger": 940437,
     "Dennis Schuller": 66236,
     "Paula M. Overby": 23101
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2018,
    "special": true,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 2587356,
    "votes": {
     "Tina Smith": 1370540,
     "Karin Housley": 1095777,
     "Sarah Wellington": 95614,
     "Jerry Trooien": 24324
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2020,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 3214256,
    "votes": {
     "Tina Smith": 1566522,
     "Jason Lewis": 1398145,
     "Kevin O'connor": 190154,
     "Oliver Steinberg": 57174
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2024,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 3189323,
    "votes": {
     "Amy Klobuchar": 1792441,
     "Royce White": 1291712,
     "Rebecca Whiting": 55215,
     "Joyce Lynne Lacey": 46377
    }
   }
  ],
  "dataset": "senate-results",
  "version": "2026-10-25.247421eda6"
 },
 "table": {
  "title": "Every Senate race since 1976",
  "columns": [
   "Race",
   "Winner",
   "Runner-up",
   "Margin",
   "Votes"
  ],
  "num": [
   3,
   4
  ],
  "rows": [
   [
    "2024",
    "Amy Klobuchar (D) 56.2%",
    "Royce White (R) 40.5%",
    "15.7 pts",
    "3,189,323"
   ],
   [
    "2020",
    "Tina Smith (D) 48.7%",
    "Jason Lewis (R) 43.5%",
    "5.2 pts",
    "3,214,256"
   ],
   [
    "2018 special",
    "Tina Smith (D) 53.0%",
    "Karin Housley (R) 42.4%",
    "10.6 pts",
    "2,587,356"
   ],
   [
    "2018",
    "Amy Klobuchar (D) 60.3%",
    "Jim Newberger (R) 36.2%",
    "24.1 pts",
    "2,596,879"
   ],
   [
    "2014",
    "Al Franken (D) 53.2%",
    "Mike Mcfadden (R) 42.9%",
    "10.2 pts",
    "1,981,528"
   ],
   [
    "2012",
    "Amy Klobuchar (D) 65.2%",
    "Kurt Bills (R) 30.5%",
    "34.7 pts",
    "2,843,207"
   ],
   [
    "2008",
    "Al Franken (D) 42.0%",
    "Norm Coleman (R) 42.0%",
    "0.0 pts",
    "2,887,646"
   ],
   [
    "2006",
    "Amy Klobuchar (D) 58.1%",
    "Mark R. Kennedy (R) 37.9%",
    "20.1 pts",
    "2,202,772"
   ],
   [
    "2002",
    "Norm Coleman (R) 49.5%",
    "Walter F. Mondale (D) 47.3%",
    "2.2 pts",
    "2,254,636"
   ],
   [
    "2000",
    "Mark Dayton (D) 48.8%",
    "Rod Grams (R) 43.3%",
    "5.5 pts",
    "2,419,520"
   ],
   [
    "1996",
    "Paul Wellstone (D) 50.3%",
    "Rudy Boschwitz (R) 41.3%",
    "9.0 pts",
    "2,182,905"
   ],
   [
    "1994",
    "Rod Grams (R) 49.1%",
    "Ann Wynia (D) 44.1%",
    "5.0 pts",
    "1,772,929"
   ],
   [
    "1990",
    "Paul David Wellstone (D) 50.4%",
    "Rudy Boschwitz (R) 47.8%",
    "2.6 pts",
    "1,808,045"
   ],
   [
    "1988",
    "Dave Durenberger (R) 56.2%",
    "Hubert H. \"skip\" Humphrey Iii (D) 40.9%",
    "15.3 pts",
    "2,093,953"
   ],
   [
    "1984",
    "Rudy Boschwitz (R) 58.1%",
    "Joan Anderson Growe (D) 41.3%",
    "16.8 pts",
    "2,066,143"
   ],
   [
    "1982",
    "Dave Durenberger (R) 52.6%",
    "Mark Dayton (D) 46.6%",
    "6.0 pts",
    "1,804,675"
   ],
   [
    "1978 special",
    "David Durenberger (R) 61.5%",
    "Bob Short (D) 34.6%",
    "26.9 pts",
    "1,558,376"
   ],
   [
    "1978",
    "Rudolph E. Boschwitz (R) 56.6%",
    "Wendell Anderson (D) 40.4%",
    "16.2 pts",
    "1,580,622"
   ],
   [
    "1976",
    "Hubert H. Humphrey (D) 67.5%",
    "Jerry Brekke (R) 25.0%",
    "42.5 pts",
    "1,912,020"
   ]
  ]
 },
 "api": {
  "now": "/data/places/us-mn/senate.json",
  "source": "https://api.electiondata.dev/v1/senate-results/download/senate-results.csv",
  "source_label": "Every Senate race, every state, from electiondata.dev (live, no key)"
 },
 "generated_at": "2026-10-26T20:05:12+00:00"
}