Political party strength in Minnesota facts for kids
The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. state of Minnesota:
- Governor
- Lieutenant Governor
- Secretary of State
- Attorney General
- State Auditor
- State Treasurer
The table also indicates the historical party composition in the:
- State Senate
- State House of Representatives
- State delegation to the United States Senate
- State delegation to the United States House of Representatives
For years in which a United States presidential election was held, the table indicates which party's nominees received the state's electoral votes.
The parties are as follows: Nonpartisan conservative (C) Democratic (D), Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL), Farmer-Labor (FL), Independence (I), Independent-Republican (IR), Nonpartisan liberal (L), National Union (NU), Populist (Po), Progressive (Pr), Republican (R), and Reform (Ref).
| Year | Executive offices | State Legislature | United States Congress | Electoral College votes | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Governor | Lieutenant Governor | Secretary of State | Attorney General | Auditor | Treasurer | State Senate | State House | U.S. Senator (Class I) | U.S. Senator (Class II) | U.S. House | ||
| 1849 | Alexander Ramsey (W) | no such office | Charles K. Smith (W) | Lorenzo A. Babcock (W) | Jonathan E. McKusick (W) | Calvin A. Tuttle (W) | 6D, 2W, 1? | 12D, 4W, 2? | 1D | |||
| 1850 | ||||||||||||
| 1851 | Alexander C. Wilkin (W) | 8D, 7?, 3W | ||||||||||
| 5D, 4?, 2W | ||||||||||||
| 1852 | Abraham Van Vorhes (W) | 7D, 2W | 10D, 5?, 3W | |||||||||
| 1853 | Willis Arnold Gorman (D) | Joseph T. Rosser (D) | LaFayette Emmett (D) | Socrates Nelson (D) | George W. Prescott (D) | 13D, 3W, 2? | ||||||
| 1854 | Julius Georgii (D) | Charles E. Leonard (D) | 9D | 13D, 5W | ||||||||
| 1855 | 13D, 4?, 1R | |||||||||||
| 1856 | 9D, 4?, 2R | 18D, 12R, 9? | ||||||||||
| 8D, 4?, 2R | 19D, 11R, 9? | |||||||||||
| 6D, 4?, 2R | ||||||||||||
| 1857 | Samuel Medary (D) | Charles L. Chase (D) | George W. Armstrong (D) | 6D, 5R, 4? | 20R, 18D | 2D | ||||||
| 20R, 19D | ||||||||||||
| 19R, 19D | ||||||||||||
| 20R, 19D | ||||||||||||
| 20D, 17R | 43D, 37R | |||||||||||
| 1858 | Henry Hastings Sibley (D) | William Holcombe (D) | Francis Baasen (D) | Charles H. Berry (D) | William F. Dunbar (D) | Henry Mower Rice (D) | James Shields (D) | |||||
| 1859 | 19D, 18R | 49R, 31D | Morton S. Wilkinson (R) | 2R | ||||||||
| 1860 | Alexander Ramsey (R) | Ignatius L. Donnelly (R) | James H. Baker (D) | Gordon E. Cole (R) | Charles Scheffer (R) | 23R, 13D, 1I | 58R, 22D | Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin (R) | ||||
| 1861 | Charles McIlrath (R) | 19R, 2D | 40R, 2D | |||||||||
| 1862 | David Blakeley (R) | 16R, 5D | 30R, 10D, 2UD | |||||||||
| 1863 | Henry Adoniram Swift (R) | 29R, 12D, 1UD | ||||||||||
| Henry Adoniram Swift (R) | vacant | Alexander Ramsey (R) | ||||||||||
| 1864 | Stephen Miller (R) | Charles D. Sherwood (R) | 17R, 4D | 27R, 11D, 4UD | Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson (NU) | |||||||
| 1865 | 32R, 10D | Daniel S. Norton (R) | ||||||||||
| 1866 | William Rainey Marshall (R) | Thomas H. Armstrong (R) | William J. Colvill (R) | 16R, 5D | 29R, 13D | |||||||
| 1867 | 17R, 5D | 37R, 9D, 1? | ||||||||||
| 1868 | Henry C. Rogers (R) | Francis R. E. Cornell (R) | Emil D. Munch (R) | 15R, 7D | 34R, 13D | Ulysses S. Grant and Schuyler Colfax (R) | ||||||
| 1869 | 16R, 6D | 38R, 9D | 1R, 1D | |||||||||
| 1870 | Horace Austin (R) | William H. Yale (R) | Hans Mattson (R) | William Windom (R) | ||||||||
| 1871 | 14R, 8D | 27R, 20D | Ozora P. Stearns (R) | 2R | ||||||||
| William Windom (R) | ||||||||||||
| 1872 | Samuel P. Jennison (R) | William Seeger (R) | 29R, 12D | 73R, 33D | Ulysses S. Grant and Henry Wilson (R) | |||||||
| 1873 | Orlan P. Whitcomb (R) | Edwin W. Dyke (R) | 31R, 10D | 79R, 27D | 3R | |||||||
| 1874 | Cushman Davis (R) | Alphonso Barto (R) | George P. Wilson (R) | 28R, 13D | 58R, 48D | |||||||
| 1875 | 21R, 18D, 2I | 54R, 48D, 4I | Samuel J. R. McMillan (R) | |||||||||
| 1876 | John S. Pillsbury (R) | James Wakefield (R) | John S. Irgens (R) | William Pfaender (R) | 27R, 14D | 74R, 32D | Rutherford B. Hayes and William Almon Wheeler (R) | |||||
| 1877 | 26R, 15D | 77R, 29D | ||||||||||
| 1878 | 29R, 12D | 66R, 40D | ||||||||||
| 1879 | 23R, 16D, 2G | 73R, 30D, 3G | 2R, 1D | |||||||||
| 1880 | Charles A. Gilman (R) | Frederick Von Baumbach (R) | Charles M. Start (R) | Charles Kittelson (R) | James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur (R) | |||||||
| 1881 | William J. Hahn (R) | 29R, 11D, 1? | 87R, 15D, 1? | Alonzo J. Edgerton (R) | 3R | |||||||
| 1882 | Lucius Frederick Hubbard (R) | William W. Braden (R) | William Windom (R) | |||||||||
| 1883 | 36R, 10D, 1I | 72R, 28D, 2I, 1? | Dwight M. Sabin (R) | 5R | ||||||||
| 1884 | James G. Blaine and John Alexander Logan (R) | |||||||||||
| 1885 | 30R, 17D | 70R, 33D | ||||||||||
| 1886 | ||||||||||||
| 1887 | Andrew Ryan McGill (R) | Albert E. Rice (R) | Hans Mattson (R) | Moses E. Clapp (R) | Joseph Bobleter (R) | 30R, 16D, 1FA | 66R, 34D, 3FA | Cushman Davis (R) | 3D, 2R | |||
| 1888 | Benjamin Harrison and Levi P. Morton (R) | |||||||||||
| 1889 | William Rush Merriam (R) | 89R, 9D, 3I, 2FA | William D. Washburn (R) | 5R | ||||||||
| 1890 | ||||||||||||
| 1891 | Gideon S. Ives (R) | Frederick P. Brown (R) | Adolph Biermann (R) | 25R, 16D, 13P | 52D, 43R, 19FA | 3D, 1R, 1P | ||||||
| 1892 | Benjamin Harrison and Whitelaw Reid (R) | |||||||||||
| 1893 | Knute Nelson (R) | David Marston Clough (R) | Henry W. Childs (R) | 71R, 41D, 2P | 4R, 2D, 1P | |||||||
| 1894 | ||||||||||||
| 1895 | David Marston Clough (R) | Frank A. Day (R) | Albert Berg (R) | Robert C. Dunn (R) | August T. Koerner (R) | 46R, 5P, 3D | 95R, 10D, 9P | Knute Nelson (R) | 7R | |||
| 1896 | William McKinley and Garret Hobart (R) | |||||||||||
| 1897 | John L. Gibbs (R) | 90R, 13P, 11D | ||||||||||
| 1898 | ||||||||||||
| 1899 | John Lind (D) | Lyndon A. Smith (R) | Wallace B. Douglas (R) | 44R, 18D, 1I | 93R, 25D, 1I | |||||||
| 1900 | William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt (R) | |||||||||||
| Charles A. Towne (D) | ||||||||||||
| 1901 | Samuel Rinnah Van Sant (R) | Peter E. Hanson (R) | Julius H. Block (R) | 96R, 17D, 6P | Moses E. Clapp (R) | |||||||
| 1902 | ||||||||||||
| 1903 | Ray W. Jones (R) | Samuel G. Iverson (R) | 52R, 11D | 104R, 15D | 8R, 1D | |||||||
| 1904 | William J. Donahower (R) | Theodore Roosevelt and Charles W. Fairbanks (R) | ||||||||||
| 1905 | John Albert Johnson (D) | Edward T. Young (R) | 109R, 10D | 9R | ||||||||
| 1906 | ||||||||||||
| 1907 | Adolph Olson Eberhart (R) | Julius A. Schmahl (R) | Clarence C. Dinehart (R) | 43R, 19D, 1 Peop. | 102R, 14D, 3 Proh. | 8R, 1D | ||||||
| 1908 | William Howard Taft and James S. Sherman (R) | |||||||||||
| 1909 | Adolph Olson Eberhart (R) | Edward Everett Smith | George T. Simpson (R) | 94R, 22D, 3 Proh. | ||||||||
| 1910 | Elias S. Pettijohn (R) | |||||||||||
| 1911 | Samuel Y. Gordon (R) | Walter J. Smith (R) | 42R, 19D, 2I | 88R, 26D, 4 Proh., 1IR, 1 Pub. Own. | ||||||||
| 1912 | Lyndon A. Smith (R) | Theodore Roosevelt and Hiram Johnson (Pr) | ||||||||||
| 1913 | Joseph A. A. Burnquist (R) | 98R, 20D, 1 Proh., 1S | ||||||||||
| 1914 | ||||||||||||
| 1915 | Winfield Scott Hammond (D) | J. A. O. Preus (R) | Conservative Majority | Conservative Majority | 9R, 1D | |||||||
| 1916 | Joseph A. A. Burnquist (R) | George H. Sullivan | Arthur C. Gooding (R) | Charles Evans Hughes and Charles W. Fairbanks (R) | ||||||||
| 1917 | Thomas Frankson (R) | Henry Rines (R) | Frank B. Kellogg (R) | |||||||||
| 1918 | Clifford L. Hilton (R) | |||||||||||
| 1919 | 9R, 1FL | |||||||||||
| 1920 | Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge (R) | |||||||||||
| 1921 | J. A. O. Preus (R) | Louis L. Collins (R) | Mike Holm (R) | Ray P. Chase (R) | 10R | |||||||
| 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 1923 | Henrik Shipstead (FL) | Magnus Johnson (FL) | 8R, 2FL | |||||||||
| 1924 | Calvin Coolidge and Charles G. Dawes (R) | |||||||||||
| 1925 | Theodore Christianson (R) | William I. Nolan (R) | Edward W. Stark (R) | Thomas D. Schall (R) | 7R, 3FL | |||||||
| 1926 | ||||||||||||
| 1927 | Albert F. Pratt (R) | Julius A. Schmahl (R) | 8R, 2FL | |||||||||
| 1928 | G. Aaron Youngquist (R) | Herbert Hoover and Charles Curtis (R) | ||||||||||
| 1929 | Charles Edward Adams | Henry N. Benson (R) | 9R, 1FL | |||||||||
| 1930 | ||||||||||||
| 1931 | Floyd B. Olson (FL) | Henry M. Arens (FL) | Stafford King (R) | |||||||||
| 1932 | Franklin D. Roosevelt and John Nance Garner (D) | |||||||||||
| 1933 | Konrad K. Solberg (FL) | Harry H. Peterson (FL) | Liberal Majority | 5FL, 3R, 1D | ||||||||
| 1934 | ||||||||||||
| 1935 | Hjalmar Petersen (FL) | Conservative Majority | Elmer Austin Benson (FL) | 5R, 3FL, 1D | ||||||||
| 1936 | Hjalmar Petersen (FL) | William B. Richardson | William S. Ervin (FL) | Guy V. Howard (R) | ||||||||
| 1937 | Elmer Austin Benson (FL) | Gottfrid T. Lindsten (FL) | C. A. Halverson (FL) | Liberal Majority | Ernest Lundeen (FL) | 5FL, 3R, 1D | ||||||
| 1938 | ||||||||||||
| 1939 | Harold Stassen (R) | C. Elmer Anderson (R) | Joseph A. A. Burnquist (R) | Julius A. Schmahl (R) | Conservative Majority | 7R, 1D, 1FL | ||||||
| 1940 | Franklin D. Roosevelt and Henry A. Wallace (D) | |||||||||||
| 1941 | Henrik Shipstead (R) | Joseph H. Ball (R) | 8R, 1FL | |||||||||
| 1942 | Arthur E. Nelson (R) | |||||||||||
| 1943 | Edward John Thye (R) | |||||||||||
| Edward John Thye (R) | Archie H. Miller (R) | Joseph H. Ball (R) | ||||||||||
| 1944 | Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman (D) | |||||||||||
| 1945 | C. Elmer Anderson (R) | 7R, 2DFL | ||||||||||
| 1946 | ||||||||||||
| 1947 | Luther Youngdahl (R) | Edward John Thye (R) | 8R, 1DFL | |||||||||
| 1948 | Harry S. Truman and Alben W. Barkley (D) | |||||||||||
| 1949 | Hubert Humphrey (DFL) | 5R, 4DFL | ||||||||||
| 1950 | ||||||||||||
| 1951 | C. Elmer Anderson (R) | vacant | Kristjan Valdimar Bjornson (R) | 51C, 16L | 87C, 44L | |||||||
| 1952 | H. H. Chesterman | Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon (R) | ||||||||||
| Virginia Paul Holm (R) | ||||||||||||
| 1953 | Ancher Nelsen (R) | 52C, 15L | 85C, 46L | |||||||||
| 1954 | Donald O. Wright (R) | |||||||||||
| 1955 | Orville Freeman (DFL) | Karl Rolvaag (DFL) | Joseph L. Donovan (DFL) | Miles W. Lord (DFL) | Arthur Hansen (DFL) | 48C, 19L | 66L, 65C | 5DFL, 4R | ||||
| 1956 | ||||||||||||
| 1957 | Kristjan Valdimar Bjornson (R) | 70L, 61C | ||||||||||
| 1958 | ||||||||||||
| 1959 | 43C, 24L | 72L, 59C | Eugene McCarthy (DFL) | 5R, 4DFL | ||||||||
| 1960 | Walter Mondale (DFL) | John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson (D) | ||||||||||
| 1961 | Elmer L. Andersen (R) | 6R, 3DFL | ||||||||||
| 1962 | ||||||||||||
| 1963 | Karl Rolvaag (DFL) | Alexander M. Keith (DFL) | 80C, 54L, 1I | 4R, 4DFL | ||||||||
| 1964 | Lyndon B. Johnson and Hubert Humphrey (D) | |||||||||||
| Robert W. Mattson, Sr. (DFL) | Walter Mondale (DFL) | |||||||||||
| 1965 | 44C, 23L | 78C, 56L, 1I | ||||||||||
| 1966 | ||||||||||||
| 1967 | Harold LeVander (R) | James B. Goetz (R) | Douglas M. Head (R) | 45C, 22L | 93C, 42L | 5R, 3DFL | ||||||
| 1968 | Hubert Humphrey and Edmund Muskie (D) | |||||||||||
| 1969 | William J. O'Brien (R) | 85C, 50L | ||||||||||
| 1970 | ||||||||||||
| 1971 | Wendell Anderson (DFL) | Rudy Perpich (DFL) | Arlen Erdahl (R) | Warren Spannaus (DFL) | Rolland F. Hatfield (R) | 34C, 33L | 70C, 65L | Hubert Humphrey (DFL) | 4R, 4DFL | |||
| 1972 | Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew (R) | |||||||||||
| 1973 | 37DFL, 30R | 77DFL, 57R | ||||||||||
| 1974 | 36DFL, 31R | |||||||||||
| 1975 | Joan Growe (DFL) | Robert W. Mattson, Jr. (DFL) | Jim Lord (DFL) | 38DFL, 28IR, 1I | 104DFL, 30IR | 5DFL, 3R | ||||||
| 1976 | 103DFL, 31IR | Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale (D) | ||||||||||
| Rudy Perpich (DFL) | Alec G. Olson (DFL) | Wendell Anderson (DFL) | ||||||||||
| 1977 | 49DFL, 18IR | 104DFL, 30IR | 4DFL, 4R | |||||||||
| 1978 | 48DFL, 19IR | 99DFL, 35IR | Muriel Humphrey (DFL) | |||||||||
| 1979 | Al Quie (IR) | Lou Wangberg (IR) | Arne Carlson (IR) | 47DFL, 20IR | 67DFL, 67IR | David Durenberger (R) | Rudy Boschwitz (R) | |||||
| 1980 | 45DFL, 22IR | 68DFL, 66IR | ||||||||||
| 1981 | 70DFL, 64IR | 5R, 3DFL | ||||||||||
| 1982 | 44DFL, 23IR | |||||||||||
| 1983 | Rudy Perpich (DFL) | Marlene Johnson (DFL) | Skip Humphrey (DFL) | Robert W. Mattson, Jr. (DFL) | 42DFL, 25IR | 77DFL, 57IR | 5DFL, 3R | |||||
| 1984 | 76DFL, 58IR | Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro (D) | ||||||||||
| 1985 | 42DFL, 24IR, 1I | 69IR, 65DFL | ||||||||||
| 1986 | 43DFL, 24IR | |||||||||||
| 1987 | Michael McGrath (DFL) | 47DFL, 20IR | 83DFL, 51IR | |||||||||
| 1988 | 46DFL, 21IR | 82DFL, 52IR | Michael Dukakis and Lloyd Bentsen (D) | |||||||||
| 1989 | 44DFL, 23IR | 81DFL, 53IR | ||||||||||
| 1990 | 80DFL, 54IR | |||||||||||
| 1991 | Arne Carlson (IR/R) | Joanell Dyrstad (IR) | Mark Dayton (DFL) | 46DFL, 21IR | Paul Wellstone (DFL) | 6DFL, 2R | ||||||
| 1992 | 78DFL, 56IR | Bill Clinton and Al Gore (D) | ||||||||||
| 1993 | 45DFL, 22IR | 87DFL, 47IR | ||||||||||
| 1994 | 84DFL, 50IR | |||||||||||
| 1995 | Joanne Benson (IR/R) | Judi Dutcher (R) | 43DFL, 24IR | 71DFL, 63R | Rod Grams (R) | |||||||
| 1996 | 42DFL, 25R | 69DFL, 65IR | ||||||||||
| 1997 | 42DFL, 24R, 1I | 70DFL, 64R | ||||||||||
| 1998 | ||||||||||||
| 1999 | Jesse Ventura (Ref/I) | Mae Schunk (Ref/I) | Mary Kiffmeyer (R) | Mike Hatch (DFL) | Carol C. Johnson (DFL) | 40DFL, 26R, 1I | 71R, 63DFL | |||||
| 2000 | Judi Dutcher (DFL) | 41DFL, 25R, 1I | 70R, 63DFL, 1I | Al Gore and Joe Lieberman (D) | ||||||||
| 2001 | 39DFL, 27R, 1IPM | 69R, 65DFL | Mark Dayton (DFL) | 5DFL, 3R | ||||||||
| 2002 | 70R, 64DFL | |||||||||||
| Dean Barkley (I) | ||||||||||||
| 2003 | Tim Pawlenty (R) | Carol Molnau (R) | Patricia Anderson (R) | office abolished | 35DFL, 31R, 1IPM | 81R, 53DFL | Norm Coleman (R) | 4DFL, 4R | ||||
| 2004 | John Kerry and John Edwards (D) | |||||||||||
| 2005 | 68R, 66DFL | |||||||||||
| 2006 | 37DFL, 29R, 1IPM | |||||||||||
| 2007 | Mark Ritchie (DFL) | Lori Swanson (DFL) | Rebecca Otto (DFL) | 44DFL, 23R | 85DFL, 49R | Amy Klobuchar (DFL) | 5DFL, 3R | |||||
| 44DFL, 22R | ||||||||||||
| 2008 | Barack Obama and Joe Biden (D) | |||||||||||
| 45DFL, 22R | 85DFL, 47R, 1IR, 1I | |||||||||||
| 2009 | 46DFL, 21R | 87DFL, 47R | Al Franken (DFL) | |||||||||
| 2010 | ||||||||||||
| 2011 | Mark Dayton (DFL) | Yvonne Prettner Solon (DFL) | 37R, 30DFL | 72R, 62DFL | 4DFL, 4R | |||||||
| 2012 | ||||||||||||
| 2013 | 39DFL, 28R | 73DFL, 61R | 5DFL, 3R | |||||||||
| 2014 | ||||||||||||
| 2015 | Tina Smith (DFL) | Steve Simon (DFL) | 72R, 62DFL | |||||||||
| 2016 | 73R, 61DFL | Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine (D) | ||||||||||
| 2017 | 34R, 33DFL | 77R, 57DFL | ||||||||||
| Year | Governor | Lieutenant Governor | Secretary of State | Attorney General | Auditor | Treasurer | State Senate | State House | U.S. Senator (Class I) | U.S. Senator (Class II) | U.S. House | Electoral College votes |
| Executive offices | State Legislature | United States Congress | ||||||||||
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