Out of an estimated 3.2 million votes cast — a third of them early or absentee — Vice President Kamala Harris won Minnesota’s 10 electoral votes with about 51% of the state’s vote, even as she fell to former President Donald Trump in the election. Long a reliable bastion for Democrats in presidential election years, Harris performed similarly in Minnesota to President Joe Biden in 2020, consolidating strong turnout in the Twin Cities metro area while Trump flipped a handful of previously blue counties around Mankato, Winona and the area south of Duluth. This map presents a precinct-level look at the presidential results. Precincts are the smallest geographic unit that election counters use to tabulate votes. They are usually comparable in size to a neighborhood or a small town, although some in rural Minnesota can be geographically large. The map is colored based on both margin of victory for a candidate and vote density of the area: Darker areas represent smaller, more densely popu...