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State | Office | Name | Party | Rating |
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Frank Moe | 33% | |||
Mee Moua | 0% | |||
Joe Mullery | 11% | |||
Mary Murphy | 71% | |||
Steve Murphy | 0% | |||
Peter Nelson | 89% | |||
Thomas Neuville | 89% | |||
Scott Newman | 100% | |||
Sean Nienow | 100% | |||
Bud Nornes | 89% | |||
Gen Olson | 100% | |||
Mark Olson | 88% | |||
Julianne Ortman | 71% | |||
Mary Otremba | 100% | |||
Dennis Ozment | 89% | |||
Patricia Pariseau | 89% | |||
Erik Paulsen | 89% | |||
Michael Paymar | 25% | |||
Maxine Penas | 89% | |||
Joyce Peppin | 100% | |||
Aaron Peterson | 75% | |||
Neil Peterson | 67% | |||
Sandra Peterson | 0% | |||
Lawrence Pogemiller | 0% | |||
Jeanne Poppe | 0% | |||
Duke Powell | 89% | |||
Prettner Solon | 11% | |||
Jane Ranum | 0% | |||
Madelyn Reiter | 89% | |||
Claire Robling | 89% | |||
Julie Rosen | 89% | |||
MN | Commissioner - 4 | Tom Rukavina | 0% | |
Connie Ruth | 89% | |||
Carrie Ruud | 88% | |||
Maria Ruud | 0% | |||
Brita Sailer | 0% | |||
Dallas Sams | 14% | |||
Char Samuelson | 78% | |||
Tom Saxhaug | 0% | |||
Bev Scalze | 33% | |||
Linda Scheid | 0% | |||
Marty Seifert | 100% | |||
David Senjem | 56% | |||
Anthony Sertich | 25% | |||
Daniel Severson | 89% | |||
Dean Simpson | 88% | |||
Rod Skoe | 0% | |||
Wesley Skoglund | 11% | |||
Nora Slawik | 22% | |||
Steve Smith | 89% | |||
Judy Soderstrom | 89% | |||
Loren Solberg | 25% | |||
Dan Sparks | 0% | |||
LeRoy Stumpf | 0% | |||
Steven Sviggum | 89% | |||
Barbara Sykora | 89% | |||
Cy Thao | 11% | |||
Kathy Tingelstad | 71% | |||
Dave Tomassoni | 0% | |||
Ray Vandeveer | 100% | |||
James Vickerman | 14% | |||
Jean Wagenius | 22% | |||
Neva Walker | 13% | |||
Lynn Wardlow | 89% | |||
Andy Welti | 0% | |||
Betsy Wergin | 89% | |||
Andrew Westerberg | 89% | |||
Charles Wiger | 11% | |||
Tim Wilkin | 89% | |||
Kurt Zellers | 89% | |||
MN | Commissioner - 4 | Joseph Atkins | Democratic/Farmer/Labor | 22% |
MN | State Senate - 61 | Scott Dibble | Democratic/Farmer/Labor | 11% |
MN | Attorney General | Keith Ellison | Democratic/Farmer/Labor | 22% |
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 Senate - 46 | Ron Latz | 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 Senate - 40 | John Marty | Democratic/Farmer/Labor | 11% |
MN | State House - 38A | Michael Nelson | Democratic/Farmer/Labor | 22% |
MN | State Senate - 65 | Sandra Pappas | Democratic/Farmer/Labor | 0% |
MN | State House - 26A | Gene Pelowski, Jr. | Democratic/Farmer/Labor | 78% |
MN | State Senate - 43 | Ann Rest | Democratic/Farmer/Labor | 0% |
MN | Public Utilities Commissioner | Katie Sieben | Democratic/Farmer/Labor | 22% |
MN | Secretary of State | Steve Simon | Democratic/Farmer/Labor | 0% |
MN | Justice of the Supreme Court - Seat 4 | Paul Thissen | Non-partisan | 13% |
MN | State Senate - 35 | Jim Abeler II | Republican | 78% |
MN | State Senate - 29 | Bruce Anderson | Republican | 100% |
MN | State House - 26B | Greg Davids | 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% |
MN | State House - 58B | Patrick Garofalo | Republican | 67% |
MN | State Senate - 37 | Warren Limmer | Republican | 100% |
MN | State House - 16A | Dean Urdahl | Republican | 89% |
MN | State Senate - 12 | Torrey Westrom | Republican | 89% |