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State | Office | Name | Party | Rating |
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MN | Attorney General | Keith Ellison | Democratic/Farmer/Labor | 22% |
MN | Commissioner - 4 | Joseph Atkins | Democratic/Farmer/Labor | 22% |
MN | Commissioner - 3 | Michael Beard | 89% | |
MN | Commissioner - 6 | Mary Holberg | 89% | |
MN | Commissioner - 4 | Tom Rukavina | 0% | |
MN | Justice of the Supreme Court - Seat 4 | Paul Thissen | Non-partisan | 13% |
MN | Public Utilities Commissioner | Katie Sieben | Democratic/Farmer/Labor | 22% |
MN | Secretary of State | Steve Simon | Democratic/Farmer/Labor | 0% |
MN | State House - 26B | Greg Davids | Republican | 89% |
MN | State House - 58B | Patrick Garofalo | Republican | 67% |
MN | State House - 53B | Rick Hansen | Democratic/Farmer/Labor | 0% |
MN | State House - 61A | Frank Hornstein | Democratic/Farmer/Labor | 11% |
MN | State House - 34B | Melissa Hortman | Democratic/Farmer/Labor | 0% |
MN | State House - 24B | Tina Liebling | Democratic/Farmer/Labor | 0% |
MN | State House - 44B | Leon Lillie | Democratic/Farmer/Labor | 0% |
MN | State House - 38A | Michael Nelson | Democratic/Farmer/Labor | 22% |
MN | State House - 26A | Gene Pelowski, Jr. | Democratic/Farmer/Labor | 78% |
MN | State House - 16A | Dean Urdahl | Republican | 89% |
MN | State Senate - 35 | Jim Abeler II | Republican | 78% |
MN | State Senate - 29 | Bruce Anderson | Republican | 100% |
MN | State Senate - 61 | Scott Dibble | Democratic/Farmer/Labor | 11% |
MN | State Senate - 46 | Ron Latz | Democratic/Farmer/Labor | 0% |
MN | State Senate - 37 | Warren Limmer | Republican | 100% |
MN | State Senate - 40 | John Marty | Democratic/Farmer/Labor | 11% |
MN | State Senate - 65 | Sandra Pappas | Democratic/Farmer/Labor | 0% |
MN | State Senate - 43 | Ann Rest | Democratic/Farmer/Labor | 0% |
MN | State Senate - 12 | Torrey Westrom | Republican | 89% |
MN | U.S. House - 6 | Tom Emmer | Republican | 100% |
MN | U.S. House - 1 | Brad Finstad | Republican | 89% |
MN | U.S. House - 7 | Michelle Fischbach | Republican | 89% |
Ron Abrams | 38% | |||
Ellen Anderson | 0% | |||
Irv Anderson | 50% | |||
Michele Bachmann | 89% | |||
Thomas Bakk | 11% | |||
William Belanger, Jr. | 63% | |||
Linda Berglin | 13% | |||
Connie Bernardy | 22% | |||
Donald Betzold | 11% | |||
Greg Blaine | 89% | |||
Francis Bradley | 89% | |||
Laura Brod | 89% | |||
Mark Buesgens | 89% | |||
Lyndon Carlson, Sr. | 22% | |||
Mike Charron | 100% | |||
Satveer Chaudhary | 0% | |||
Karen Clark | 11% | |||
Richard Cohen | 11% | |||
Tony Cornish | 89% | |||
Ray Cox | 44% | |||
Lloyd Cybart | 100% | |||
Jim Davnie | 22% | |||
Richard Day | 88% | |||
Chris DeLaForest | 88% | |||
Matt Dean | 100% | |||
Randy Demmer | 89% | |||
Jerry Dempsey | 100% | |||
David Dill | 67% | |||
Stephen Dille | 71% | |||
Denise Dittrich | 33% | |||
Dan Dorman | 56% | |||
John Dorn | 38% | |||
Robert Eastlund | 89% | |||
Kent Eken | 100% | |||
Matt Entenza | 22% | |||
Ron Erhardt | 33% | |||
Sondra Erickson | 89% | |||
Leo Foley | 0% | |||
Dennis Frederickson | 100% | |||
Patti Fritz | 67% | |||
Paul Gazelka | 100% | |||
Chris Gerlach | 100% | |||
Barbara Goodwin | 0% | |||
Mindy Greiling | 22% | |||
Bob Gunther | 89% | |||
Tom Hackbarth | 89% | |||
Rod Hamilton | 100% | |||
David Hann | 100% | |||
Alice Hausman | 11% | |||
Bud Heidgerken | 89% | |||
Linda Higgins | 0% | |||
Debra Hilstrom | 25% | |||
Bill Hilty | 25% | |||
Joe Hoppe | 89% | |||
Larry Hosch | 67% | |||
John Hottinger | 0% | |||
Larry Howes | 89% | |||
Thomas Huntley | 11% | |||
Mike Jaros | 13% | |||
Dean Elton Johnson | 0% | |||
Debbie Johnson | 86% | |||
Jeff Johnson | 100% | |||
Ruth Johnson | 0% | |||
Sheldon Johnson | 11% | |||
Al Juhnke | 78% | |||
Michael Jungbauer | 100% | |||
Phyllis Kahn | 11% | |||
Steve Kelley | 0% | |||
Margaret Kelliher | 13% | |||
Bob Kierlin | 44% |