Minnesota results by State House district

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Compare to here: https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=61179.0

Senate results coming up.

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The (non-Iron Range) Obama rural vote seems to correlate reasonably well with high concentrations of ELCA members:

http://www.valpo.edu/geomet/pics/geo200/religion/elca.gif

Yes, you might as well say it correlates with non-fundie Scandinavians, and there you have the reason.

The Senate map:

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It's interesting to see the divide between districts 4a and 4b.  4b is much more conservative and votes reliably Republican.  This mostly comprises of pearly white, older, wealthy lake home owners in the Brainerd Lakes area.  Our previous state senator was a conservative Republican from Breezy Point.

Contrast that with 4a, which is notably poorer and with a significant Native American population from the Leech Lake Indian reservation as well as Red Lake members living in Bemidji, which is a tiny blip on the NW edge of the district.  It was heavy turnout here that defeated Carrie Ruud in '06 and elected in DFLer Mary Olson of Bemidji.

District 4 is still divided in the state house.  4a will be represented by DFLer John Persell (elected to take DFLer Frank Moe's place) while 4b is represented by veteran Republican Larry Howes of Walker.

[Ronnie]

Do you happen to know the results by congressional district?

[nclib]

Good maps, anyone know what other states have Presidential results by State House (or Senate) district online? I know Md.,Del.,Calif.,Alaska do.

[mileslunn]

I believe in the Southern part of the state, the Southwest has a large German and Dutch population who the Republicans tend to do well amongst, well the Southeastern part is more Scandinavian and most of them seem to be Lutheran or otherwise non-Evangelical Protestant.  The West probably only went for Obama due to the spillover from North Dakota.  With polls showing him being competitive there (even though it wasn't as close as the polls suggested), I believe he did a lot of media advertising and considering the largest centers are in the Eastern part of North Dakota, I suspect much of that spilled over into Minnesota.  Minneapolis, you can see the urban core going heavily Democrat, the built up suburbs narrowly voting for Obama, while McCain winning the exurbs and low density suburbs.  I suspect if you plotted Obama's percentage against the population density of each district in the Minneapolis area, there would be a pretty strong correlation.  Off course this is the case throughout much of the US, although Northeastern Minnesota is pretty low in population density, yet strongly Democrat.  Although I suspect this has due with the area being heavily Scandinavian and also I believe much like neighbouring Northern Ontario, much of the area is in forestry and mining as opposed to agriculture.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Parts of Northern Minnesota actually voted Socialist in 1912!

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Parts of Northern Minnesota actually voted Socialist in 1912!

Though he also did really well in non-Iron Range counties too, like the Lake of the Woods/Beltrami Co area. any idea why?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Parts of Northern Minnesota actually voted Socialist in 1912!

Though he also did really well in non-Iron Range counties too, like the Lake of the Woods/Beltrami Co area. any idea why?

Presumably for the same sort of reasons that he did well in parts of North Dakota.

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Parts of Northern Minnesota actually voted Socialist in 1912!

Though he also did really well in non-Iron Range counties too, like the Lake of the Woods/Beltrami Co area. any idea why?

Presumably for the same sort of reasons that he did well in parts of North Dakota.

Old Prairie Populism?

[DariusNJ]

Do you happen to know the results by congressional district?

MN 1: Obama 51-47
MN 2: McCain 50-48
MN 3: McCain 52-46
MN 4: Obama 64-34
MN 5: Obama 74-24
MN 6: McCain 53-45
MN 7: McCain 50-47
MN 8: Obama 53-45

[Хahar 🤔]

Parts of Northern Minnesota actually voted Socialist in 1912!

As I recall, those places were where the Communists did best.

[mileslunn]

I understand the Northeast of Minnesota is quite leftist compared to elsewhere in the state, but any particular reason.  Is this region heavy in forestry or mining as those areas tend be heavily unionized plus somewhat left leaning.  Also what about the large Scandinavian community in this area.  I believe the Democrats tend to do better amongst them than other groups such as the Germans, Dutch, Scots-Irish, and English who are more likely to favour the Republicans, while the predominately Catholic groups (German Catholics, Irish, Polish, French-Canadians, Italians) seemed to be historically Democrat, but more evenly split in recent elections.

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As said before, Iron Range.

Also, use question marks plz.

[minionofmidas]

What would you want to do that for.

[minionofmidas]

I believe the Democrats tend to do better amongst them than other groups such as the Germans, Dutch, Scots-Irish, and English who are more likely to favour the Republicans, while the predominately Catholic groups (German Catholics, Irish, Polish, French-Canadians, Italians) seemed to be historically Democrat, but more evenly split in recent elections.

German Catholics are historically Republican.

[Badger]

I believe the Democrats tend to do better amongst them than other groups such as the Germans, Dutch, Scots-Irish, and English who are more likely to favour the Republicans, while the predominately Catholic groups (German Catholics, Irish, Polish, French-Canadians, Italians) seemed to be historically Democrat, but more evenly split in recent elections.

German Catholics are historically Republican.

And continue to be so today--overwhelmingly--around here.