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Minnesota gubernatorial election, 2014

Minnesota gubernatorial election, 2014
Minnesota
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Nominee Mark Dayton Jeff Johnson
Party DFL Republican
Running mate Tina Smith Bill Kuisle
Popular vote 989,113 879,257
Percentage 50.1% 44.5%

Minnesota Governor Election Results by County, 2014.svg
County results

Governor before election

Mark Dayton
DFL

Elected Governor

Mark Dayton
DFL


Mark Dayton
DFL

Mark Dayton
DFL

The 2014 Minnesota gubernatorial election took place on November 4, 2014, to elect the Governor of Minnesota concurrently with the election to Minnesota's Class II U.S. Senate seat, as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.

Incumbent Democratic–Farmer–Labor Governor Mark Dayton ran for re-election to a second term in office. Incumbent Democratic Lieutenant Governor Yvonne Prettner Solon retired and Tina Smith was selected as his new running mate.

Primary elections were held on August 12, 2014. Dayton and Smith won the Democratic primary and the Republicans nominated Hennepin County Commissioner Jeff Johnson and his running mate former State Representative Bill Kuisle. In the general election, Dayton and Smith defeated them and several other minor party candidates with just over 50% of the vote. Dayton's victory broke his own record, set in 2010, as the oldest Minnesota gubernatorial candidate to win an election; he was 67. It was also the first gubernatorial race since 1994 in which the winner received a majority of the votes cast.


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