Wendell Anderson Democratic (DFL) Wendell Anderson Democratic (DFL) The 1974 Minnesota gubernatorial election took place on November 5, 1974.

Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party candidate Wendell Anderson defeated Republican Party of Minnesota challenger John W. Johnson.

Anderson won every single county in the state, becoming the first person to do so in a gubernatorial election since Joseph Burnquist in 1916.

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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