1938 Minnesota gubernatorial election
The 1938 Minnesota gubernatorial election took place on November 8, 1938. Republican Party of Minnesota candidate Harold Stassen defeated Farmer–Labor Party incumbent Elmer Benson.
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Results
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Republican | Harold Stassen | 678,839 | 59.92% | +21.37% | |
Farmer–Labor | Elmer Benson | 387,263 | 34.18% | -26.55% | |
Democratic | Thomas F. Gallagher | 65,875 | 5.81% | n/a | |
Industrial | John William Castle | 899 | 0.08% | -0.63% | |
Majority | 291,576 | 25.74% | |||
Turnout | 1,132,876 | ||||
Republican gain from Farmer–Labor | Swing | ||||
Further reading
- Benson, Elmer A. "Politics in My Lifetime." Minnesota History 47 (1980): 154–60. online
- Haynes, John Earl. Dubious alliance: the making of Minnesota's DFL Party (U of Minnesota Press, 1984)
- Kirby, Ales, David G. Dalin and John F. Rothmann. Harold E. Stassen: The Life and Perennial Candidacy of the Progressive Republican (2012)
- Lovin, Hugh T. "The Fall of Farmer–Labor Parties, 1936-1938." Pacific Northwest Quarterly (1971): 16–26. in JSTOR
- Sofchalk, Donald G. "Union and Ethnic Group Influence in the 1938 Election on the Minnesota Iron Ranges." Journal of the West (2003) 42#3 pp: 66–74.
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