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Jesse Ventura

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Jesse Ventura
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Prior offices
Governor of Minnesota
Elections and appointments
Last election

November 3, 2020

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Jesse Ventura was the Governor of Minnesota. Ventura assumed office on January 8, 1999. Ventura left office on January 6, 2003.

Ventura (Green Party of Alaska, Unaffiliated) ran for election for President of the United States. Ventura (Green Party of Alaska) lost in the general election on November 3, 2020.

Political career

Governor of Minnesota (1999-2003)

Ventura ran for governor of Minnesota in 1998. Ventura was elected as a member of the Reform Party, but later left and reorganized the Minnesota Reform Party as the Independence Party.[1] He did not seek a second term as governor.[2]

Elections

2020

Presidency

See also: Presidential candidates, 2020

Former Vice President Joe Biden (D) won the presidential election on November 3, 2020. Biden received 306 electoral votes and President Donald Trump (R) received 232 electoral votes. In the national popular vote, Biden received 81.2 million votes and Trump received 74.2 million votes.

The Green Party of Alaska nominated Ventura as its nominee rather than Howie Hawkins, the national nominee for the Green Party, on September 1, 2020.[3]


Presidential election, 2020
 
Candidate/Running mate
%
Popular votes
Electoral votes
✔
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Joe Biden/Kamala D. Harris (D)
 
51.3
 
81,282,632 306
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Donald Trump/Mike Pence (R)
 
46.9
 
74,223,234 232
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Jo Jorgensen/Spike Cohen (L)
 
1.2
 
1,864,873 0
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Howie Hawkins/Angela Nicole Walker (G)
 
0.3
 
402,795 0
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Roque De La Fuente (multiple running mates) (Alliance Party)
 
0.1
 
88,214 0
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Gloria La Riva (multiple running mates) (Party for Socialism and Liberation)
 
0.1
 
84,905 0
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Ye/Michelle Tidball (Independent)
 
0.0
 
67,906 0
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Don Blankenship/William Mohr (Constitution Party)
 
0.0
 
59,924 0
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Brock Pierce/Karla Ballard (Independent)
 
0.0
 
49,764 0
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Brian T. Carroll/Amar Patel (American Solidarity Party)
 
0.0
 
35,260 0
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Alyson Kennedy/Malcolm Jarrett (Socialist Workers Party)
 
0.0
 
6,791 0
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Bill Hammons/Eric Bodenstab (Unity Party)
 
0.0
 
6,647 0
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Jade Simmons (multiple running mates) (Independent)
 
0.0
 
6,534 0
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Jerry Segal/John de Graaf (Bread and Roses)
 
0.0
 
5,949 0
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Dario David Hunter/Dawn Neptune Adams (Progressive Party)
 
0.0
 
5,394 0
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Phil Collins/Billy Joe Parker (Prohibition Party)
 
0.0
 
4,844 0
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Jesse Ventura/Cynthia McKinney (Green Party of Alaska)
 
0.0
 
3,284 0
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President Boddie/Eric Stoneham (C.U.P.)
 
0.0
 
3,171 0
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Joe McHugh/Elizabeth Storm (Independent)
 
0.0
 
2,843 0
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Mark Charles/Adrian Wallace (Independent)
 
0.0
 
2,662 0
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Sheila Tittle (multiple running mates) (Independent)
 
0.0
 
1,806 0
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Connie Gammon/Phil Collins (Independent)
 
0.0
 
1,475 0
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J.R. Myers/Tiara Lusk (Life and Liberty)
 
0.0
 
1,372 0
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Tom Hoefling/Andy Prior (Independent)
 
0.0
 
1,241 0
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H. Brooke Paige/Thomas Witman (Grumpy Old Patriots)
 
0.0
 
1,175 0
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Christopher Lafontaine/Michael Speed (Independent)
 
0.0
 
856 0
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Kyle Kenley Kopitke (multiple running mates) (Independent)
 
0.0
 
815 0
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Ricki Sue King/Dayna Chandler (Genealogy Know Your Family History Party)
 
0.0
 
546 0
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Princess Khadijah Maryam Jacob-Fambro/Khadijah Maryam Jacob Sr. (Independent)
 
0.0
 
497 0
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Blake Huber/Frank Atwood (Approval Voting Party)
 
0.0
 
409 0
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Joseph Kishore/Norissa Santa Cruz (Socialist Equality Party)
 
0.0
 
317 0
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Richard Duncan/Mitch Bupp (Independent)
 
0.0
 
213 0
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Jordan Marc Scott/Jennifer Tepool (Independent)
 
0.0
 
175 0
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Gary Swing/David Olszta (Boiling Frog)
 
0.0
 
141 0
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Keith McCormic/Sam Blasiak (Bull Moose)
 
0.0
 
126 0
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Zachary Scalf/Matthew Lyda (Independent)
 
0.0
 
29 0
  Other write-in votes
 
0.1
 
183,207 0

Incumbents are bolded and underlined The results have been certified.

Total votes: 158,402,026

0 states have not been called.



Presidential preference

2016 presidential endorsement

✓ Ventura endorsed Gary Johnson for the 2016 presidential general election.[4]

See also: Endorsements for Gary Johnson

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    Footnotes

    1. ↑ Minnesota Public Radio, "The political legacy of Jesse Ventura," December 2, 2002
    2. ↑ Britannica, "Jesse Ventura," accessed June 11, 2021
    3. ↑ Must Read Alaska, "Green Party of Alaska nominates Jesse Ventura for president," September 1, 2020
    4. ↑ CNBC, "Why I'm voting for Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson for president," July 13, 2016
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