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Minnesota Votes Chapter Eight
Chapter Eight
Minnesota Votes
Maps ......................................................................................................290
Winning Party for President and Vice President by Precinct......290
Winning Party for U.S. Representative by Precinct ....................291
State Senate Districts by Party ....................................................292
State House Districts by Party ....................................................294
Voting Systems Used by Precinct, 2004 Election ......................296
Voter Turnout Since 1950 ......................................................................297
Special Primaries and Elections Since Last Edition..............................298
2004 State Primary ................................................................................300
2004 State General Election ..................................................................307
Precinct-Level Results..................................................................313
Minnesota’s 2004 Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party presidential electors met on December 13, 2004, in the
governor’s reception room at the State Capitol in Saint Paul. Pictured (left to right): Matthew Little of
Maplewood, Lil Ortendahl of Osakis, Sonja Berg of St. Cloud, Tim O’Brien of Edina, Frank Simon of Chaska,
Secretary of State Mary Kiffmeyer, Everett Pettiford of Minneapolis, Chandler Harrison Stevens of Austin, Jean
Schiebel of Brooklyn Center, Michael Meuers of Bemidji, Vi Grooms-Alban of Cohasset. Nine of Minnesota’s
electors voted for John F. Kerry for president; one elector voted anonymously for John Edwards. The vote for
Edwards was historically noteworthy: This was Minnesota’s first “faithless” elector, as those who defect from
their pledged candidates are known. The last case of a faithless presidential elector was in 1988 in the state of
West Virginia. Nationally in the race for U.S. President, incumbent George W. Bush of Texas ultimately received
286 electoral votes, his challenger, U.S. Senator John F. Kerry of Massachusetts, received 251 electoral votes,
and U.S. Senator John Edwards of North Carolina (Kerry’s running mate) received one electoral vote.
Tom Olmscheid photograph
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