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State | Office | Name | Party | Rating |
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MN | U.S. House - 1 | Brad Finstad | Republican | 12% |
MN | U.S. House - 6 | Tom Emmer | Republican | 0% |
MN | State House - 16A | Dean Urdahl | Republican | 24% |
MN | State House - 24B | Tina Liebling | Democratic/Farmer/Labor | 94% |
MN | State House - 26A | Gene Pelowski, Jr. | Democratic/Farmer/Labor | 82% |
MN | State House - 34B | Melissa Hortman | Democratic/Farmer/Labor | 94% |
MN | State House - 38A | Michael Nelson | Democratic/Farmer/Labor | 94% |
MN | State House - 44B | Leon Lillie | Democratic/Farmer/Labor | 100% |
MN | State House - 53B | Rick Hansen | Democratic/Farmer/Labor | 100% |
MN | State House - 58B | Patrick Garofalo | Republican | 18% |
MN | State House - 61A | Frank Hornstein | Democratic/Farmer/Labor | 100% |
MN | State Senate - 12 | Torrey Westrom | Republican | 19% |
MN | State Senate - 20 | Steve Drazkowski | Republican | 0% |
MN | State Senate - 29 | Bruce Anderson | Republican | 0% |
MN | State Senate - 35 | Jim Abeler II | Republican | 67% |
MN | State Senate - 64 | Erin Murphy | Democratic/Farmer/Labor | 100% |
MN | Secretary of State | Steve Simon | Democratic/Farmer/Labor | 100% |
MN | Justice of the Supreme Court - Seat 4 | Paul Thissen | Non-partisan | 100% |
MN | Mayor - At-Large | Kim Norton | Democratic/Farmer/Labor | 94% |
MN | Commissioner - 1 | Ron Shimanski | 6% | |
MN | Commissioner - 3 | Michael Beard | 8% | |
MN | Commissioner - 4 | Joseph Atkins | Democratic/Farmer/Labor | 94% |
MN | Commissioner - 4 | Tom Rukavina | 65% | |
MN | Commissioner - 6 | Mary Holberg | 0% | |
Sarah Anderson | 35% | |||
Tom Anzelc | 76% | |||
John Benson | 100% | |||
John Berns | 47% | |||
Karla Bigham | 100% | |||
David Bly | 94% | |||
Laura Brod | 18% | |||
Robin Brown | 100% | |||
Kathy Brynaert | 100% | |||
Mark Buesgens | 0% | |||
Julie Bunn | 100% | |||
Lyndon Carlson, Sr. | 100% | |||
Karen Clark | 100% | |||
Tony Cornish | 53% | |||
Jim Davnie | 100% | |||
Chris DeLaForest | 0% | |||
Matt Dean | 18% | |||
Randy Demmer | 24% | |||
Bob Dettmer | 19% | |||
David Dill | 53% | |||
Denise Dittrich | 94% | |||
Willie Dominguez | 100% | |||
Al Doty | 71% | |||
Robert Eastlund | 6% | |||
Kent Eken | 76% | |||
Ron Erhardt | 80% | |||
Sondra Erickson | 6% | |||
Tim Faust | 82% | |||
Patti Fritz | 100% | |||
Paul Gardner | 94% | |||
Steve Gottwalt | 12% | |||
Mindy Greiling | 94% | |||
Bob Gunther | 35% | |||
Tom Hackbarth | 6% | |||
Rod Hamilton | 29% | |||
Alice Hausman | 100% | |||
Larry Haws | 100% | |||
Bud Heidgerken | 29% | |||
Debra Hilstrom | 100% | |||
Bill Hilty | 94% | |||
Joe Hoppe | 12% | |||
Larry Hosch | 67% | |||
Larry Howes | 33% | |||
Thomas Huntley | 82% | |||
Mike Jaros | 94% | |||
Sheldon Johnson | 100% | |||
Al Juhnke | 71% | |||
Phyllis Kahn | 100% | |||
Jeremy Kalin | 100% | |||
Margaret Kelliher | 100% | |||
Katherine Knuth | 100% | |||
Lyle Koenen | 59% | |||
Paul Kohls | 0% | |||
Scott Kranz | 80% | |||
Carolyn Laine | 100% | |||
Morrie Lanning | 35% | |||
Ann Lenczewski | 94% | |||
John Lesch | 100% | |||
Bernard Lieder | 94% | |||
Diane Loeffler | 100% | |||
Shelley Madore | 100% | |||
Doug Magnus | 29% | |||
Tim Mahoney | 81% | |||
Carlos Mariani | 100% | |||
Paul Marquart | 76% | |||
Sandra Masin | 100% | |||
Carol McFarlane | 53% | |||
Denny McNamara | 59% | |||
Frank Moe | 100% | |||
William Morgan | 94% | |||
Terence Morrow | 100% | |||
Joe Mullery | 100% | |||
Mary Murphy | 94% | |||
Bud Nornes | 24% | |||
David Olin | 53% | |||
Mark Olson | 6% |