1914 Minnesota gubernatorial election

1914 Minnesota gubernatorial election
November 3, 1914
 
Nominee Winfield S. Hammond William E. Lee
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote 156,304 143,730
Percentage 45.54% 41.87%
 
Nominee Willis G. Calderwood Thomas J. Lewis
Party Prohibition Socialist
Popular vote 18,582 17,225
Percentage 5.41% 5.02%
County results
Hammond:      30–40%      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%
Lee:      30–40%      40–50%      50–60%
Lewis:      30–40%
Governor before election

Adolph Olson Eberhart
Republican

Elected Governor

Winfield Scott Hammond
Democratic

The 1914 Minnesota gubernatorial election took place on November 3, 1914. Democratic Party of Minnesota candidate Winfield Scott Hammond defeated Republican Party of Minnesota challenger William E. Lee. Hammond would be the last governor from the Minnesota Democratic Party. The next party to defeat the Republicans would be the Farmer-Labor Party, and decades after that, the DFL.

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