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Electors of President and Vice-President

Minnesota general election, 1988 · Minnesota, November 8, 1988

Release · 2026-09-26T000000Z-69d52412 · Vintage: 2026-09-26

Coverage

Coverage for this dimension is not counted.

Not yet acquired: boundaries are unavailable for these units.

Reported at Minnesota, which is a roll-up rather than the finest unit this source publishes.

Result

This release records no declared outcome for this contest. Everything below is computed from the counts.

Michael S Dukakis leads George H.W. Bush by 7.0 points of the 2,096,790 votes counted in this contest.

Computed from the counts in this release, not a declaration by an election authority. Margin definition: leading candidacy − runner-up candidacy, each summed across every ballot line it appeared on, over every vote counted in the contest, including lines below the runner-up.

2,096,790 votes counted.

Candidacies

Ordered by votes, descending; candidacies the source has not reported follow the counted ones. A candidacy nominated by more than one party expands to the votes cast on each of its ballot lines.

The leading candidacies of Electors of President and Vice-President, ordered by votes
CandidacyVotesShareObservation
Michael S Dukakis1,109,47152.9%observed
George H.W. Bush962,33745.9%observed
Eugene "Gene" McCarthy5,4030.3%observed
10 more candidacies · 0.9% combined · 19,579 votes (some reported nothing)
The remaining candidacies of Electors of President and Vice-President, each named individually
CandidacyVotesShareObservation
Ronald "Ron" Paul5,1090.2%observed
Write-In3,6140.2%observed
James "Mac" Warren2,1550.1%observed
Jack Herer1,9490.1%observed
Lenora Fulani1,7340.1%observed
Lyndon, Larouche Jr.1,7020.1%observed
David Duke1,5290.1%observed
Delmar Dennis1,2980.1%observed
Edward Winn4890.0%observed
Othernot yet reported—not reported
not yet reported
Not yet reported by the source. A blank is not a zero.

This release carries 13 candidacies for this contest, on 12 separately reported ballot lines. 3 are shown and 10 are behind the control above. No candidacy is combined into an unnamed remainder.

Rules

Stage
general
Voting system
plurality
Seats
1
Certification
certified
Special election
no

Sources

Source: Akashic (legacy build) (certified) · Release 2026-09-26T000000Z-69d52412

This contest is recorded as contest:legacy-spine:mn/1988-11-08/general/presidential-electors and is certified. Cite this page as https://akashic.app/contests/contest:legacy-spine:mn/1988-11-08/general/presidential-electors.

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