The 1974 Minnesota gubernatorial election took place on November 5, 1974. This was the first election in which the governor and lieutenant governor ran on the same ticket. Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party candidate Wendell Anderson defeated Republican Party of Minnesota challenger John W. Johnson.
Anderson won every county in the state, becoming the first person to do so in a gubernatorial election since Joseph Burnquist in 1916, and is to date the last gubernatorial candidate to do so, although Attorney General Skip Humphrey won every county in 1994.
This was the first gubernatorial election with eight candidates on the ballot, as well as the first election to feature a Libertarian Party ticket on a Minnesota ballot.
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