1976 Minnesota Senate election
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The 1976 Minnesota Senate election was held in the U.S. state of Minnesota on November 2, 1976, to elect members to the Senate of the 70th and 71st Minnesota Legislatures. A primary election was held on September 14, 1976. This was the first partisan election of the Senate since the 1910 election.
The Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL) won a majority of seats, followed by the Independent-Republicans of Minnesota. The new Legislature convened on January 4, 1977.
Results
Party | Candidates | Votes | Seats | ||
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No. | % | ||||
style="background-color:Template:Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party/meta/color" | | Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party | 65 | 1,027,602 | 49 | 73.13 |
style="background-color:Template:Republican Party of Minnesota/meta/color" | | Independent-Republicans of Minnesota | 61 | 721,637 | 18 | 26.87 |
style="background-color:Template:American Party (1969)/meta/color" | | American Party of Minnesota | 2 | 5,963 | 0 | 0.00 |
style="background-color:Template:Socialist Workers Party (United States)/meta/color" | | Socialist Workers Party of Minnesota | 3 | 1,680 | 0 | 0.00 |
Free For All | 1 | 1,221 | 0 | 0.00 | |
Freedom Party | 1 | 1,085 | 0 | 0.00 | |
style="background-color:Template:Libertarian Party of Minnesota/meta/color" | | Libertarian Party of Minnesota | 2 | 922 | 0 | 0.00 |
Conservative | 1 | 584 | 0 | 0.00 | |
style="background-color:Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" | | Independent | 5 | 31,856 | 0 | 0.00 |
Total | 67 | 100.00 | |||
Turnout (out of 2,710,000 eligible voters)[1] | 1,978,590 | 73.01% | 2.70 pp | ||
Source: Minnesota Secretary of State[2] |
See also
References
- ^ "Minnesota election statistics 1950-2014" (PDF). Minnesota Secretary of State. Retrieved October 29, 2015.
- ^ "Minnesota General Election - November 2, 1976" (PDF). Minnesota Secretary of State. pp. 9–173. Retrieved October 29, 2015.