Minnesota Poll: Presidential election

Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump by 8 percentage points among Minnesota likely voters in the latest Star Tribune Minnesota Poll. That's a slight increase from the poll in September, when she led by 6 points. The poll of 625 likely voters was conducted Oct. 20-22 and has a margin of sampling error of 4.0 percentage points, plus or minus.

October 25, 2016 at 12:53AM

Do you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of ... Favorable Unfavorable Neutral Hillary Clinton 39% 47% 14% Donald Trump 31 58 11 If the 2016 general election for president and vice president were held today, which one of the following tickets would get your vote? Clinton/Kaine Trump/Pence Johnson/Weld Others* Not sure TOTAL 47% 39% 6% 2% 6% GENDER: Men 38 47 9 2 4 Women 56 32 3 2 7 PARTY ID: Democrats 86 5 3 2 4 Republicans 8 80 6 1 5 Independents/Other 40 37 11 3 9 AGE: 18-34 53 28 10 1 8 35-49 46 39 6 2 7 50-64 47 42 5 2 4 65+ 43 43 5 2 7 INCOME: Under $50,000 49 37 6 2 6 $50,000 and over 38 43 7 3 9 REGION: Hennepin/Ramsey counties 59 26 6 2 7 Rest of Twin Cities suburbs 42 44 9 1 4 Rest of state 41 45 4 3 7 * "Others" are Green Party ticket of Jill Stein and Ajamu Baraka at 1 percent, and Independence Party ticket of Evan McMullin and Mindy Finn at 1 percent. Source: Star Tribune Minnesota Poll, Oct. 20-22, 2016; 625 Minnesota likely voters, +/-4.0 margin of error. DEMOGRAPHICS # of respondents Percentage In terms of your political party identification, do you generally consider yourself DFL or Democrat, Republican or an independent? DFL/Democrat 238 38% Republican 201 32% Independent/Other 186 30% AGE: 18-34 100 16% 35-49 192 31% 50-64 202 32% 65+ 129 21% Refused 2 <1% INCOME: <$25,000 79 13% $25,000-$49,999 95 15% $50,000-$74,999 94 15% $75,000-$99,999 91 15% $100,000+ 96 15% Refused 170 27% GENDER: Male 303 48% Female 322 52% REGION: Hennepin/Ramsey 200 32% Rest of Suburbs 180 29% Rest of State 245 39%

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