2016 Election Statistics

• U.S. President and Vice President: 1
• U.S. Representative: 8
• State Senator: 67
• State Representative: 133
• Supreme Court Associate Justices: 1
• Court of Appeals Judges: 9
• District Court Judges: 96

• County Races: 245
• City Races: 1,946
• Township Races: 1,515
• School Board Races: 348
• Hospital District Races: 98
• Soil & Water Conservation District Races: 270
• Park District Races: 3

• County Questions: 7
• City Questions: 47
• Township Questions: 30
• School District Questions: 53

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• Congressional Districts: 8
• State Senate Districts: 67
• State Legislative Districts: 134
• Counties: 87
• Cities: 853
• Townships: 1,783
• Counties with Unorganized Territory: 16
• School Districts: 332
• Hospital Districts: 18
• Soil & Water Conservation Districts: 89
• Park Districts: 2

Filed Candidates for Partisan Offices:

• Republican: 204
• Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL): 207
• Other: 19

Candidates for Judicial Offices:

• Incumbent only: 99
• Candidates with challengers: 8

Registered Write-ins: 56

Filed Candidates for:

• County Offices: 388
• City Races: 3,540
• Township Races: 1,478
• School Board Offices: 1,362
• Hospital District Offices: 91
• Soil & Water Conservation Offices: 295
• Park Offices: 3

Races with no candidate filed:

• County Offices: 0
• City Races: 116
• Township Races: 116
• School Board Offices: 13
• Hospital District Offices: 20
• Soil & Water Conservation Offices: 14
• Park Offices: 0

Minnesota voters may pre-register up to three weeks before Election Day. Total voters who pre-registered before the general election was 3,270,734. In the map image below, counties with darker shades had a higher percentage of eligible voters pre-registered. County percentages ranged from 65% to 95.5%. Click on the image to view a pdf with rates for each county.

 Find pre-registered data for all precincts in the 2016 Precinct Results Spreadsheet

Minnesota voters may register when they vote on Election Day. 353,179 voters registered when they voted in the general election. Note that these might be new voters, or voters re-registering after changing their name or address. In the map image below, counties with darker shades had a higher percentage of voters that registered when voting. County percentages ranged from 7.4% to 18.4%. Click on the image to view a pdf with rates for each county.

 Find election day registration data for all precincts in the 2016 Precinct Results Spreadsheet

Voter turnout is the number of voters divided by the number of eligible voters. The total number of voters in the 2016 general election was 2,968,281. This office does not have exact eligible voter data, so uses statewide data from the United States Election Project on election night. Citizen Voting Age Population (CVAP) data from the U.S. Census is less exact, but available by county. In the map image below, counties with darker shades had higher turnout. County percentages ranged from 55.5% to 86.7%. Click on the image to view a pdf with rates for each county.

Find polling place voting data for all precincts in the 2016 Precinct Results Spreadsheet

Most Minnesota voters vote at their polling place on Election Day. In 2016, about 2.29 million voters voted at a polling place. In the map image below, counties with darker shades had a higher percentage of votes cast in polling places. County percentages ranged from 16.8% to 91%. Click on the image to view a pdf with rates for each county.

 Find polling place voting data for all precincts in the 2016 Precinct Results Spreadsheet

Voters throughout Minnesota may vote early as absentees without excuse, in person or by mail. The total number of accepted absentee ballots was about 618 thousand for the 2016 general election. In the map image below, counties with darker shades had a higher percentage of votes cast by absentee voting. County percentages ranged from 7.5% to 29.6%. Click on the image to view a pdf with rates for each county.

 Find absentee voting data for all precincts in the 2016 Precinct Results Spreadsheet

Some areas in Minnesota are designated to vote by "mail ballot" which means that ballots are mailed to registered voters and voters do not go to a normal polling place on Election Day. About 59 thousand voters voted this way for the 2016 general election. In the map image below, counties with darker shades had a higher percentage of votes cast by mail voting. Twenty-four counties had no mail balloting, and other counties had up to 68.9% of voting by mail ballot. Click on the image to view a pdf with rates for each county.

Find which precincts voted by mail ballot in the 2016 Precinct Results Spreadsheet

Voters throughout Minnesota may vote before election day as absentees without excuse, in person or by mail. Voting absentee in person at a county or city location is sometimes called "early voting." About 404 thousand voters completed their absentee ballots in person before Election Day. In the map image below, counties with darker shades had a higher percentage of votes cast via early voting. County percentages range from 3.3% to 20.5%. Note that these "early votes" are also counted in the absentee voting counts above. Click on the image to view a pdf with rates for each county.

• Precincts: 4,120
• Mail Ballot Precincts: 739
• Cities with multiple precincts: 212
• Towns with multiple precincts: 44
• Municipalities offering absentee voting: 124
• Election Judges on Election Day (as reported by counties): 32,313

The table below shows the model of equipment that was used for tabulating votes from polling places or mail ballots. Absentee ballots may have been tabulated on different equipment. Data as reported by Minnesota counties.