Minnesota

Minnesota Voter Guide 2026

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State Snapshot

Primary ElectionAug. 11, 2026

General ElectionNov. 3, 2026

StateMinnesota

Places Listed23

Profiles105

2026 Statewide Races

Candidates The Ballot Brief is tracking for Minnesota's statewide contests. Tap a name for their bio and campaign link, or enter your address for the full ballot with finance data.

Governor

14 candidates

Amy Klobuchar (D)
Amy Klobuchar is a Democratic candidate for Minnesota governor and a U.S. senator. After Tim Walz ended his re-election bid, Klobuchar entered the governor race with a message focused on Minnesota pragmatism, affordability, public safety, infrastructure, and getting practical results.
Priorities: Lower costs and support working families · Improve public safety and practical government services · Invest in infrastructure, jobs, and Minnesota communities
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Lisa Demuth (R)
Lisa Demuth is a Republican candidate for Minnesota governor and speaker of the Minnesota House. Her campaign emphasizes affordability, public safety, education, government accountability, and a change from DFL control.
Priorities: Lower costs for Minnesota families · Strengthen public safety and accountability · Improve schools and state government performance
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Kendall Qualls (R)
Kendall Qualls is a Republican candidate for Minnesota governor, an Army veteran and former technology and health-care executive who won the state GOP convention endorsement in May 2026. Founder of the nonprofit TakeCharge and the party's 2020 nominee in the 3rd Congressional District, he is running with Brian Nicholson and emphasizes pocketbook issues, education, and public safety.
Priorities: Focus on the economy and pocketbook issues · Improve schools and education outcomes · Bring business and Army leadership experience to state government
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Mike Lindell (R)
Mike Lindell is a Republican candidate for Minnesota governor and the founder and CEO of MyPillow. A prominent ally of President Trump known for disputing the results of the 2020 election, he entered the race in December 2025 and is running with Phil Parrish. His platform emphasizes stopping fraud, fixing school systems, property taxes, and immigration enforcement.
Priorities: Stop fraud in state government and elections · Fix failing school systems · Address rising property taxes and illegal immigration
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Thomas Evenstad (D)
Thomas Evenstad is a DFL candidate for Minnesota governor, a criminal-justice reform activist running with Jason Haarsager on the August 11 ballot.
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Bill Gates Jr. (D)
Bill Gates Jr. is a DFL candidate for Minnesota governor, a pastor who ran for governor of Arkansas in 2022. He is running with Leah Harris on the August 11 ballot.
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Kobey Layne (D)
Kobey Layne is a DFL candidate for Minnesota governor, a former legislative aide and progressive activist running with Paul Ference. He sought the party endorsement at the May 2026 DFL convention.
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Ole Savior (D)
Ole Savior is a DFL candidate for Minnesota governor, a Minneapolis artist who has sought state and federal office many times. He is running with Ashley Johnson on the August 11 ballot.
Po Vang (D)
Po Vang is a DFL candidate for Minnesota governor, a community volunteer running with Mark Frascone, a retired information-security analyst and veteran.
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Mohammad Wazwaz (D)
Mohammad Wazwaz is a DFL candidate for Minnesota governor, running with Murad Alshool on the August 11 ballot.
Loner Blue (R)
Loner Blue is a Republican candidate for Minnesota governor, a retiree who sought the governorship in 2022 and a U.S. Senate seat in 2024. He is running with Andrew Maass on the August 11 ballot.
Raul Estrada (R)
Raul Estrada is a Republican candidate for Minnesota governor, a conservative activist who sought the secretary of state office in 2018. He is running with Joe Kincaid on the August 11 ballot.
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John Krhin (R)
John Krhin is a Republican candidate for Minnesota governor and a minister, running with Dennis Conti. He describes himself as the first Native American Republican to seek the office in Minnesota.
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Ross Nova (R)
Ross Nova is a Republican candidate for Minnesota governor, a truck driver and Army veteran running with Kerry Busby on the August 11 ballot.
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U.S. Senate

6 candidates

Angie Craig (DFL)
Angie Craig is a U.S. representative from Minnesota's 2nd District and a Democratic-Farmer-Labor candidate for Minnesota's open U.S. Senate seat. Her campaign emphasizes farm and rural issues, health care costs, public safety, abortion rights, and a pragmatic record in a competitive district.
Priorities: Lower health-care and household costs · Support farmers, rural communities, and working families · Protect reproductive rights and public safety
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Peggy Flanagan (DFL)
Peggy Flanagan is Minnesota's lieutenant governor, a former state representative, and a Democratic-Farmer-Labor candidate for U.S. Senate. Her public work emphasizes children and families, tribal relations, housing, health care, reproductive rights, and progressive state policy.
Priorities: Support children, families, housing, and health care · Protect reproductive rights and civil rights · Bring statewide executive and tribal-relations experience to the Senate
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Michele Tafoya (R)
Michele Tafoya is a Republican candidate for Minnesota's open U.S. Senate seat and a former national sports broadcaster. Her campaign emphasizes public safety, border policy, parental rights, affordability, and conservative representation against the DFL field.
Priorities: Strengthen public safety and border policy · Support parental rights and school accountability · Lower costs and challenge DFL control of the Senate seat
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Adam Schwarze (R)
Adam Schwarze is a Republican candidate for Minnesota's open U.S. Senate seat and a former Navy SEAL. His campaign emphasizes military service, national security, border security, public safety, and conservative accountability in Washington.
Priorities: Bring military and national-security experience · Strengthen border security and public safety · Promote conservative accountability in Washington
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Royce White (R)
Royce White is a Republican candidate for Minnesota's open U.S. Senate seat and the party's 2024 nominee for U.S. Senate. His campaign emphasizes populist conservative politics, criticism of federal institutions, border policy, and economic nationalism.
Priorities: Advance populist conservative policy · Challenge federal institutions and establishment politics · Focus on border security and economic nationalism
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Tom Weiler (R)
Tom Weiler is a Republican candidate for Minnesota's open U.S. Senate seat, retired U.S. Navy officer, and the 2022 Republican nominee in Minnesota's 3rd Congressional District. His campaign emphasizes national security, veterans, border policy, and fiscal restraint.
Priorities: Use Navy and national-security experience · Support veterans and military families · Advance border security and fiscal restraint
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Attorney General

3 candidates

David J.S. Madgett (DFL)
David J.S. Madgett is a Democratic-Farmer-Labor contender on Minnesota's certified candidate list for attorney general in the August 11, 2026 state primary. A University of Virginia law graduate, he served as a U.S. Air Force JAG Corps captain and base Chief of Justice, and founded a Minneapolis consumer-protection firm handling identity theft, predatory lending, and fraud cases.
Priorities: Aggressive fraud enforcement and a dedicated fraud division · Consumer protection for Minnesota families · Government accountability and public safety
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Keith Ellison (DFL)Incumbent
Keith Ellison is Minnesota's incumbent attorney general and a Democratic-Farmer-Labor candidate for re-election. His office has emphasized consumer protection, wage theft enforcement, civil rights, antitrust and corporate accountability, reproductive rights, and public-safety litigation.
Priorities: Protect consumers, workers, and civil rights · Use the attorney general's office for public-safety and accountability cases · Defend reproductive rights and state legal authority
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Ron Schutz (R)
Ron Schutz is a Republican candidate for Minnesota attorney general, former chair of the Robins Kaplan law firm, and former chair of Tim Pawlenty's 2012 presidential campaign. His campaign emphasizes crime, fraud, government accountability, litigation experience, and a Republican alternative for the state's chief legal office.
Priorities: Strengthen prosecution and public-safety enforcement · Target fraud and government accountability · Bring private-sector litigation experience to the attorney general's office
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Secretary Of State

5 candidates

George "Chip" Tangen (Libertarian)
George "Chip" Tangen is a Libertarian candidate for Minnesota secretary of state who qualified for the November 3, 2026 general-election ballot by nominating petition. An attorney raised in Eden Prairie, he previously served as legislative counsel to U.S. Rep. Jim Ramstad in Washington.
Priorities: Nonpartisan administration of Minnesota elections · Ballot access for independent and minor-party candidates · Maximizing both voter participation and election security
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Steve Simon (DFL)Incumbent
Steve Simon is Minnesota's incumbent secretary of state and a Democratic-Farmer-Labor candidate for a fourth term. His office oversees elections, business filings, public records, voter information, and civic participation across Minnesota.
Priorities: Administer secure and accessible elections · Maintain business filings and public records · Build voter information and civic participation
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Tad Jude (R)
Tad Jude is a Republican candidate for Minnesota secretary of state, former state legislator, and former district court judge. His campaign emphasizes election confidence, voter-roll administration, business services, and conservative oversight of the office.
Priorities: Strengthen election confidence and voter-roll administration · Improve business and public-record services · Bring judicial and legislative experience to the office
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Wendy Phillips (R)
Wendy Phillips is a Republican candidate for Minnesota secretary of state and a business owner. Her campaign emphasizes election transparency, customer service, voter confidence, and administrative accountability.
Priorities: Improve election transparency and voter confidence · Strengthen customer service for state filings · Bring business experience to administrative accountability
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Seth Kuhl-Stennes (Green)
Seth Kuhl-Stennes is a Green Party candidate for Minnesota secretary of state, nonprofit worker, and community activist. His campaign emphasizes voting access, election transparency, ballot access, and democratic participation.
Priorities: Expand voting access and ballot access · Increase election transparency · Support civic participation and community accountability
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Auditor

5 candidates

Will Finn (Republican)
Will Finn is a Republican on Minnesota's certified candidate list for state auditor in the August 11, 2026 state primary, per the Secretary of State's filings.
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Zack Filipovich (DFL)
Zack Filipovich is a Democratic-Farmer-Labor candidate for Minnesota state auditor and a former Duluth city councilor. His campaign emphasizes local-government oversight, financial accountability, transparency, and support for communities managing public dollars.
Priorities: Improve local-government financial oversight · Strengthen transparency and accountability · Support communities managing public funds
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Nate George (R)
Nate George is a Republican candidate for Minnesota state auditor and mayor of Braham. His campaign emphasizes local-government experience, fiscal oversight, transparency, and practical accountability for city and county finances.
Priorities: Bring mayoral experience to state audits · Strengthen fiscal transparency · Improve accountability for local public dollars
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Scott Jensen (R)
Scott Jensen is a Republican candidate for Minnesota state auditor, physician, former state senator, and the 2022 Republican nominee for governor. His campaign emphasizes fraud prevention, state spending oversight, health-system scrutiny, and conservative accountability.
Priorities: Scrutinize fraud and state spending · Use medical and legislative experience for oversight · Promote conservative accountability in state government
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Jay Reeves (Forward-Independence)
Jay Reeves is a Forward-Independence Party candidate for Minnesota state auditor and an Army veteran. His campaign emphasizes independent oversight, public accountability, and non-major-party representation in statewide fiscal review.
Priorities: Offer independent oversight of public finances · Strengthen accountability and transparency · Bring military service experience to statewide office
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Statewide Ballot Measures

1 statewide measure is on Minnesota's 2026 ballot. Tap a measure for the plain-language summary.

Alter Management and Investment Policies for Permanent School Fund Amendment
Change the administrative policies for investing and distributing the Minnesota Permanent School Fund. This constitutional amendment appears on the November 3, 2026 general-election ballot — it is NOT on the August 11 primary ballot..
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Places We’re Tracking

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Washington County

6 candidates

6 tracked candidate profiles
2 races covered

Rice County

29 candidates

29 tracked candidate profiles
25 office types represented

Anoka County

15 candidates

15 tracked candidate profiles
12 office types represented

Hennepin County

7 candidates

7 tracked candidate profiles
3 office types represented

Duluth city

6 candidates

6 tracked candidate profiles
3 office types represented

St. Louis County

5 candidates

5 tracked candidate profiles
3 office types represented

Clay County

4 candidates

4 tracked candidate profiles
3 office types represented

Crow Wing County

4 candidates

4 tracked candidate profiles
3 office types represented

Wright County

4 candidates

4 tracked candidate profiles
3 office types represented

Carver County

3 candidates

3 tracked candidate profiles
3 office types represented

Blaine city (pt.)

2 candidates

2 tracked candidate profiles
1 office type represented

Blue Earth County

2 candidates

2 tracked candidate profiles
2 office types represented

Coon Rapids city

2 candidates

2 tracked candidate profiles
2 office types represented

Dakota County

2 candidates

2 tracked candidate profiles
2 office types represented

Olmsted County

2 candidates

2 tracked candidate profiles
2 office types represented

Ramsey County

2 candidates

2 tracked candidate profiles
1 office type represented

Rochester city

2 candidates

2 tracked candidate profiles
1 office type represented

Sherburne County

2 candidates

2 tracked candidate profiles
2 office types represented

St. Paul city

2 candidates

2 tracked candidate profiles
2 office types represented

Bloomington city

1 candidates

1 tracked candidate profile
1 office type represented

Eagan city

1 candidates

1 tracked candidate profile
1 office type represented

Lakeville city

1 candidates

1 tracked candidate profile
1 office type represented

Maple Grove city

1 candidates

1 tracked candidate profile
1 office type represented

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Election Calendar

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Note: State hubs summarize tracked places; exact ballot results depend on address and district boundaries.Profiles: Candidate data updates as official filings and campaign materials publish.