Political party strength in North Dakota facts for kids
The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. state of North Dakota:
- Governor
- Lieutenant Governor
- Secretary of State
- Attorney General
- State Treasurer
- State Auditor
- State Insurance Commissioner
- State Commissioner of Agriculture and Labor/State Agriculture Commissioner/State Labor Commissioner
- State Tax Commissioner
- Superintendent of Public Instruction
The table also indicates the historical party composition in the:
- State Senate
- State House of Representatives
- State Public Service Commission
- 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.
| Year | Executive offices | State Legislature | Pub. Ser. Com. | United States Congress | Electoral College votes | ||||||||||||||
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| Governor | Lt. Governor | Sec. of State | Attorney General | Treasurer | Auditor | Ins. Comm. | Ag. Comm. | Tax Comm. | Supt. of Pub. Inst. | State Senate | State House | U.S. Senator (Class I) | U.S. Senator (Class III) | U.S. House | |||||
| 1889 | John Miller (R) | Alfred Dickey (R) | John Flittie (R) | George F. Goodwin (R) | Lewis E. Booker (R) | John P. Bray (R) | A.L. Carey (R) | Henry T. Helgesen (R) | William Mitchell (R) | 25R, 6D | 58R, 4D | Lyman R. Casey (R) | Gilbert A. Pierce (R) | Henry C. Hansbrough (R) | |||||
| 1890 | William J. Clapp (R) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1891 | Andrew H. Burke (R) | Roger Allin (R) | Clarence A.M. Spencer (R) | John Ogden (R) | 23R, 6D, 2FA | 40R, 16D, 6FA | Henry C. Hansbrough (R) | Martin N. Johnson (R) | |||||||||||
| 1892 | Archie Currie (R) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1893 | Eli C. D. Shortridge (D-I) | Elmer D. Wallace (D-I) | Christian M. Dahl (R) | William H. Standish (D-I) | Knud J. Nomland (D-I) | Arthur W. Porter (D-I) | James Cudhie (D-I) | Nelson Williams (D-I) | Laura J. Eisenhuth (D-I) | 19R, 7D, 4P, 1 Fus. | 33R, 16D, 13P | William N. Roach (D) | Grover Cleveland and Adlai Stevenson (D)  |
Benjamin Harrison and Whitelaw Reid (R)  |
James Weaver and James Field (P) |
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| 1894 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1895 | Roger Allin (R) | John H. Worst (R) | John F. Cowan (R) | George E. Nichols (R) | Frank A. Briggs (R) | Frederick B. Fancher (R) | Andrew H. Laughlin (R) | Emma F. Bates (R) | 25R, 4P, 2D | 52R, 6P, 2D | |||||||||
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| 1897 | Frank A. Briggs (R) | Joseph M. Devine (R) | Fred Falley (R) | Nathan B. Hannum (R) | Henry U. Thomas (R) | John G. Halland (R) | 24R, 4 Fus., 3D | 44R, 18 Fus. | William McKinley and Garret Hobart (R) |
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| 1898 | Joseph M. Devine (R) | vacant | |||||||||||||||||
| 1899 | Frederick B. Fancher (R) | Joseph M. Devine (R) | Dennis W. Driscoll (R) | Albert N. Carlblom (R) | George W. Harrison (R) | 22R, 9 Fus. | 55R, 5 Fus., 2D | Porter J. McCumber (R) | Burleigh F. Spalding (R) | ||||||||||
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| 1901 | Frank White (R) | David Bartlett (R) | Edward F. Porter (R) | Oliver D. Comstock (R) | Donald H. McMillan (R) | Ferdinand Leutz (R) | Rollin J. Turner (R) | Joseph M. Devine (R) | 24R, 7 Fus. | 56R, 5 Fus., 1? | Thomas Frank Marshall (R) | William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt (R) |
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| 1903 | Carl N. Frich (R) | Herbert L. Holmes (R) | Walter L. Stockwell (R) | 30R, 7D, 3 Fus. | 86R, 11D, 2 Fus., 1I | 2R | |||||||||||||
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| 1905 | Elmore Y. Sarles (R) | Albert Peterson (R) | Ernest C. Cooper (R) | William C. Gilbreath (R) | 33R, 6D, 1I | 99R, 1D | Theodore Roosevelt and Charles W. Fairbanks (R) |
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| 1907 | John Burke (D) | Robert S. Lewis (R) | Alfred Blaisdell (R) | Thomas F. McCue (R) | 33R, 7D | 87R, 12D, 1I | |||||||||||||
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| 1909 | Andrew Miller (R) | George L. Bickford (R) | David K. Brightbill (R) | 38R, 8D, 1I | 92R, 8D | Martin N. Johnson (R) | William Howard Taft and James S. Sherman (R) |
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| Fountain L. Thompson (D) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1910 | William E. Purcell (D) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1911 | Usher L. Burdick (R) | Patrick D. Norton (R) | Gunder Olson (R) | Walter C. Taylor (R) | Edwin J. Taylor (R) | 44R, 4D, 1I | 90R, 12D, 1S | Asle Gronna (R) | |||||||||||
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| 1913 | L. B. Hanna (R) | Anton T. Kraabel (R) | Thomas Hall (R) | Carl O. Jorgenson (R) | 43R, 6D | 102R, 8D | 3R | Woodrow Wilson and Thomas R. Marshall (D) |
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| 1915 | John H. Fraine (R) | Henry Linde (R) | John Steen (R) | Robert F. Flint (R) | 44R, 5D | 106R, 6D | |||||||||||||
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| 1917 | Lynn Frazier (R-NPL) | Anton T. Kraabel (R) | William Langer (R-NPL) | Carl R. Kositzky (R) | Sveinung A. Olsness (R) | John N. Hagan (R-NPL) | Neil C. MacDonald (NP) | 43R, 6D | 97R, 17D | ||||||||||
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| 1919 | Howard R. Wood (R) | Obert A. Olson (R) | George E. Wallace (R) | Minnie J. Nelson (NP) | 43R, 6D (35NPL, 14IVA) | 99R, 14D (81NPL, 32IVA) | |||||||||||||
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| 1921 | Ragnvald A. Nestos (R-IVA) | William Lemke (R-NPL) | John Steen (R) | David C. Poindexter (R) | Joseph A. Kitchen (R) | 49R (25NPL, 24IVA) | 113R (59IVA, 54NPL) | Edwin F. Ladd (R) | Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge (R) |
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| Sveinbjorn Johnson (R) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1922 | C.C. Converse (R) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1923 | Frank H. Hyland (R) | George F. Shafer (R) | 49R (26IVA, 23NPL) | 113R (57IVA, 56NPL) | Lynn Frazier (R-NPL) | ||||||||||||||
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| 1925 | Arthur G. Sorlie (R-NPL) | Walter Maddock (R-NPL) | Robert Byrne (R) | Chessmur A. Fischer (R) | John Steen (R) | Thorstein H. Thoresen (R) | 46R, 3D (25IVA, 24NPL) | 106R, 7D (63NPL, 50IVA) | Gerald Nye (R) | Calvin Coolidge and Charles G. Dawes (R) |
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| 1927 | Bertha R. Palmer (NP) | 49R (25IVA, 24NPL) | 113R (60IVA, 53NPL) | ||||||||||||||||
| 1928 | Walter Maddock (R-NPL) | vacant | |||||||||||||||||
| 1929 | George F. Shafer (R-IVA) | John W. Carr (R) | James Morris (R) | Berta E. Baker (R) | Iver A. Acker (R) | 48R, 1D (26NPL, 23IVA) | 112R, 1D (65IVA, 48NPL) | Herbert Hoover and Charles Curtis (R) |
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| 1931 | 47R, 2D (27IVA, 22NPL) | 112R, 1D (58IVA, 55NPL) | |||||||||||||||||
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| 1933 | William Langer (R-NPL) | Ole H. Olson (R-NPL) | Arthur J. Gronna (R) | Alfred S. Dale (R) | John Husby (R) | F.A. Vogel (R) | Arthur E. Thompson (NP) | 44R, 5D (R-NPL majority) | 103R, 10D (R-NPL majority) | 1R, 1R-NPL | Franklin D. Roosevelt and John Nance Garner (D) |
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| Peter O. Sathre (R) | J.J. Weeks (R) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1934 | Ole H. Olson (R-NPL) | vacant | |||||||||||||||||
| 1935 | Thomas H. Moodie (D) | Walter Welford (R-NPL) | James D. Gronna (R) | John Gray (R) | Berta E. Baker (R) | Harold Hopton (R) | Theodore Martell (R-NPL) | 42R, 7D (R-NPL majority) | 83R, 30D (R-NPL majority) | ||||||||||
| Walter Welford (R-NPL) | vacant | Lee Nichols (R) | |||||||||||||||||
| 1936 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1937 | William Langer (R-NPL) | Thorstein H. Thoresen (R) | Alvin C. Strutz (R) | Oscar E. Erickson (R) | John N. Hagan (R-NPL) | John Kenneth Murray (R) | 34R, 14D, 1I (R-NPL majority) | 87R, 26D (R-NPL majority) | |||||||||||
| Owen T. Owen (R) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1938 | Claude P. Stone (R) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1939 | John Moses (D) | Jack A. Patterson (R) | John R. Omland (R) | Math Dahl (R-NPL) | William T. DePuy (D) | 39R, 10D (R-NPL majority) | 106R, 7D (R-NPL majority) | ||||||||||||
| Lee Nichols (R) | |||||||||||||||||||
| John Gray (D) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1940 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1941 | Oscar W. Hagen (R-NPL) | Herman Thorson (R) | Carl Anderson (R) | John Gray (NP) | 44R, 5D (R-IVA majority) | 103R, 10D (R-IVA majority) | 3R | William Langer (R-NPL) | 2R | Wendell Willkie and Charles L. McNary (R) |
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| 1942 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1943 | Henry Holt (D) | Thomas Hall (R) | 45R, 4D (R-IVA majority) | 106R, 7D (R-IVA majority) | 1R, 1R-NPL | ||||||||||||||
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| 1945 | Fred George Aandahl (R) | Clarence P. Dahl (R) | Nels G. Johnson (R) | Otto Krueger (R) | Otto Krueger (R) | 46R, 3D (R-ROC Majority) | 109R, 4D (R-ROC Majority) | John Moses (D) | Thomas E. Dewey and John W. Bricker (R) |
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| Hjalmer W. Swenson (R) | Milton Young (R) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1946 | Garfield B. Nordrum (NP) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1947 | 111R, 2D (R-ROC Majority) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1948 | Peter O. Sathre (R) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1949 | Albert Jacobson (R) | 47R, 2D (R-ROC Majority) | Thomas E. Dewey and Earl Warren (R) |
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| 1950 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1951 | Clarence Norman Brunsdale (R) | Ray Schnell (R) | Elmo T. Christianson (R) | Alfred J. Jensen (R) | Marvell F. Peterson (NP) | 112R, 1D (R-ROC Majority) | 2R | ||||||||||||
| 1952 | Burtis B. Conyne (NP) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1953 | Clarence P. Dahl (R) | Ray Thompson (R) | J. Arthur Engen (NP) | 47R, 2D (R-NPL majority) | Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon (R) |
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| 1954 | Paul Benson (R) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1955 | Ben Meier (R) | Leslie R. Burgum (R) | Albert Jacobson (R) | 46R, 3D (R-NPL majority) | 111R, 2D (R-ROC Majority) | ||||||||||||||
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| 1957 | John E. Davis (R) | Francis Clyde Duffy (R) | Curtis G. Olson (R) | 40R, 9D-NPL | 94R, 19D-NPL | ||||||||||||||
| 1958 | Mike J. Baumgartner (R) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1959 | Clarence P. Dahl (R) | John R. Erickson (R) | 34R, 15D-NPL | 65R, 48D-NPL | Clarence Norman Brunsdale (R) | 1R, 1D-NPL | |||||||||||||
| 1960 | Quentin N. Burdick (D-NPL) | Don L. Short (R) | |||||||||||||||||
| 1961 | William L. Guy (D-NPL) | Orville W. Hagen (R) | 28R, 21D-NPL | 70R, 41D-NPL | 2R, 1D-NPL | 2R | Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (R) |
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| 1962 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1963 | Frank A. Wenstrom (R) | Helgi Johanneson (R) | Phil Hoghaug (R) | Frank Albers (R) | Lloyd Omdahl (NP/D-NPL) | 37R, 12D-NPL | 70R, 43D-NPL | ||||||||||||
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| 1965 | Charles Tighe (D-NPL) | Walter Christensen (D-NPL) | Karsten O. Nygaard (R) | Arne Dahl (R) | 29R, 20D | 65D-NPL, 44R | 1R, 1D-NPL | Lyndon B. Johnson and Hubert Humphrey (D) |
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| 1966 | Edwin O. Sjaasstad (NP) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1967 | Arne Dahl (R) | 44R, 5D-NPL | 83R, 15D-NPL | 2R | |||||||||||||||
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| 1969 | Richard F. Larsen (R) | Bernice Asbridge (R) | Jorris O. Wigen (R) | Byron Dorgan (NP/D-NPL) | 43R, 6D-NPL | 80R, 18D-NPL | Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew (R) |
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| 1970 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1971 | 37R, 12D-NPL | 58R, 40D-NPL | 1R, 1D-NPL | ||||||||||||||||
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| 1973 | Arthur A. Link (D-NPL) | Wayne Sanstead (D-NPL) | Allen I. Olson (R) | Walter Christensen (D-NPL) | Robert W. Peterson (R) | 40R, 11D-NPL | 76R, 26D-NPL | Mark Andrews (R) | |||||||||||
| 1974 | Myron Just (D-NPL) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1975 | 34R, 17D-NPL | 62R, 40D-NPL | |||||||||||||||||
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| 1977 | Byron Knutson (D-NPL) | Howard Snortland (NP) | 32R, 18D-NPL | 50R, 50D-NPL | Gerald Ford and Bob Dole (R) |
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| 1979 | Robert E. Hanson (D-NPL) | 35R, 15D-NPL | 71R, 29D-NPL | ||||||||||||||||
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| 1981 | Allen I. Olson (R) | Ernest Sands (R) | Robert Wefald (R) | John S. Lesmeister (R) | Jorris O. Wigen (R) | H. Kent Jones (R) | Kent Conrad (NP/D-NPL) | Joseph Crawford (NP) | 40R, 10D-NPL | 73R, 27D-NPL | Mark Andrews (R) | Byron Dorgan (D-NPL) | Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush (R) |
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| 1982 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1983 | 32R, 21D-NPL | 55D-NPL, 51R | |||||||||||||||||
| 1984 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1985 | George A. Sinner (D-NPL) | Ruth Meiers (D-NPL) | Nicholas Spaeth (D-NPL) | Robert E. Hanson (D-NPL) | Earl Pomeroy (D-NPL) | Wayne Sanstead (NP/D-NPL) | 29R, 24D-NPL | 65R, 41D-NPL | |||||||||||
| 1986 | Heidi Heitkamp (D-NPL) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1987 | Lloyd Omdahl (D-NPL) | 27D-NPL, 26R | 61R, 45D-NPL | Kent Conrad (D-NPL) | |||||||||||||||
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| 1989 | Jim Kusler (D-NPL) | Sarah Vogel (D-NPL) | 32D-NPL, 21R | George H. W. Bush and Dan Quayle (R) |
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| 1991 | 27D-NPL, 26R | 58R, 48D-NPL | |||||||||||||||||
| 1992 | Jocelyn Burdick (D-NPL) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Kent Conrad (D-NPL) | Byron Dorgan (D-NPL) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1993 | Ed Schafer (R) | Rosemarie Myrdal (R) | Alvin Jaeger (R) | Heidi Heitkamp (D-NPL) | Kathi Gilmore (D-NPL) | Glenn Pomeroy (D-NPL) | Robert E. Hanson (D-NPL) | 25D-NPL, 24R | 65R, 33D-NPL | Earl Pomeroy (D-NPL) | George H. W. Bush and Dan Quayle (R) |
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| 1995 | 29R, 20D-NPL | 75R, 23D-NPL | |||||||||||||||||
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| 1997 | Bob Peterson (R) | Roger Johnson (D-NPL) | Rick Clayburgh (R) | 30R, 19D-NPL | 72R, 26D-NPL | Bob Dole and Jack Kemp (R) |
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| 1999 | 31R, 18D-NPL | 64R, 34D-NPL | |||||||||||||||||
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| 2001 | John Hoeven (R) | Jack Dalrymple (R) | Wayne Stenehjem (R) | Jim Poolman (R) | 32R, 17D-NPL | 69R, 29D-NPL | 3R | George W. Bush and Dick Cheney (R) |
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| 2003 | 31R, 16D-NPL | 66R, 28D-NPL | |||||||||||||||||
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| 2005 | Kelly Schmidt (R) | 32R, 15D-NPL | 67R, 27D-NPL | ||||||||||||||||
| Cory Fong (R) | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 2007 | 26R, 21D-NPL | 61R, 33D-NPL | |||||||||||||||||
| Adam Hamm (R) | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 2009 | Doug Goehring (R) | 58R, 36D-NPL | John McCain and Sarah Palin (R) |
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| 2011 | Jack Dalrymple (R) | Drew Wrigley (R) | 35R, 12D-NPL | 69R, 25D-NPL | John Hoeven (R) | Rick Berg (R) | |||||||||||||
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| 2013 | Kirsten Baesler (NP/R) | 33R, 14D-NPL | 71R, 23D-NPL | Heidi Heitkamp (D-NPL) | Kevin Cramer (R) | Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan (R) |
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| 2014 | Ryan Rauschenberger (R) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2015 | 32R, 15D-NPL | ||||||||||||||||||
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| 2017 | Doug Burgum (R) | Brent Sanford (R) | Josh Gallion (R) | Jon Godfread (R) | 38R, 9D-NPL | 81R, 13D-NPL | Donald Trump and Mike Pence (R) |
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| Year | Governor | Lt. Governor | Sec. of State | Attorney General | Treasurer | Auditor | Ins. Comm. | Ag. Comm. | Tax Comm. | Supt. of Pub. Inst. | State Senate | State House | Pub. Ser. Com. | U.S. Senator (Class I) | U.S. Senator (Class III) | U.S. House | Electoral College votes | ||
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