Mondale lost the election, receiving 1,067,246 votes (47.34%) to Coleman's 1,116,697 (49.53%), earning him the unique distinction of having lost a statewide general election in all 50 states as the nominee of a major party (he lost the other 49 in the 1984 presidential election; George McGovern also lost statewide elections in all 50 states, 49 of them as a major party nominee in the 1972 presidential election, but the only statewide election he lost in Massachusetts was the "primary" in 1984). Upon conceding defeat, Mondale said, "At the end of what will be my last campaign, I want to say to Minnesota, you always treated me well, you always listened to me."