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St. Paul, Minnesota sample ballot 2026

St. Paul voters (Ramsey County, Minnesota) see U.S. Senate, Governor, Attorney General, Secretary of State plus 11 Ramsey County races on the November 3, 2026 ballot. Your U.S. House district and any precinct-level races depend on your street address.

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SheriffNonpartisan race · Bob Fletcher

Bob Fletcher Nonpartisan

Bob Fletcher appears on the November 3, 2026 ballot for Ramsey County Sheriff, per the Minnesota Secretary of State's candidate filings. No campaign website was found as of September 6, 2026; the Secretary of State's candidate filing is the only verifiable source for Bob Fletcher.

AttorneyNonpartisan race · John Choi

John Choi Nonpartisan

Top priorities
  • Protecting vulnerable victims and ensuring justice for survivors of sexual abuse
  • Improving the quality of justice and building trust with the community
  • Addressing and preventing violence in the community
About John Choi

John Choi is running for Hawaii Lieutenant Governor. He began his legal career as a Deputy Attorney General and has worked as a trial lawyer for more than two decades, including on the legal team in Hawaii's opioid litigation, per his campaign site. He has lived in Kapahulu, Hawaii for 22 years, per his campaign site.

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Judge, Minnesota 2nd Judicial District Court, Seat 1Nonpartisan race · Leonardo Castro

Leonardo Castro Nonpartisan

Leonardo Castro is a judge of the Minnesota 2nd Judicial District Court. Appointed to the Ramsey County District Court June 18, 2012, by Governor Mark Dayton and elected in 2014 and 2020, per the Minnesota Judicial Branch. Previously chief public defender for the Fourth and Fifth Judicial Districts and a U.S. Air Force veteran, 1981-1989, per the Minnesota Judicial Branch. No campaign website was found as of September 25, 2026.

Judge, Minnesota 2nd Judicial District Court, Seat 8Nonpartisan race · Victoria Gardner

Victoria Gardner Nonpartisan

Victoria Gardner is a judge of the Minnesota 2nd Judicial District Court. Appointed to the Ramsey County District Court on July 21, 2025, by Governor Tim Walz, per the Minnesota Judicial Branch. Previously a family court referee for Ramsey County and a partner at Collins, Buckley, Sauntry & Haugh; served as Ramsey County Bar Association president, 2023-2024, per the Minnesota Judicial Branch. No campaign website was found as of September 25, 2026.

Judge, Minnesota 2nd Judicial District Court, Seat 13Nonpartisan race · Stacy Stennes

Stacy Stennes Nonpartisan

Stacy Stennes is on the November 3, 2026 ballot for Judge, Minnesota 2nd Judicial District Court, Seat 13, per the Minnesota Secretary of State's certified general-election candidate table.

Judge, Minnesota 2nd Judicial District Court, Seat 14Nonpartisan race · Jessica Bierwerth

Jessica Bierwerth Nonpartisan

Jessica Bierwerth is a judge of the Minnesota 2nd Judicial District Court. Appointed to the Ramsey County District Court by Governor Tim Walz on Oct. 22, 2024, per the Minnesota Judicial Branch. Previously an assistant Dakota County attorney handling juvenile, protective services and criminal appeals, per the Minnesota Judicial Branch. No campaign website was found as of September 25, 2026.

Judge, Minnesota 2nd Judicial District Court, Seat 15Nonpartisan race · Sophia Vuelo

Sophia Vuelo Nonpartisan

Sophia Vuelo is on the November 3, 2026 ballot for Judge, Minnesota 2nd Judicial District Court, Seat 15, per the Minnesota Secretary of State's certified general-election candidate table.

Judge, Minnesota 2nd Judicial District Court, Seat 24Nonpartisan race · Veena Iyer

Veena Iyer Nonpartisan

Veena Iyer is a Ramsey County District Court judge appointed by Governor Tim Walz, currently assigned to the criminal division handling felony cases, per her campaign website. She began her legal career as a legal aid attorney in Chicago, later practiced employment law and served as executive director of a legal assistance organization for new Americans, per the same source. She serves on the boards of the Ramsey County Law Library and Augsburg University, per her website.

Judge, Minnesota 2nd Judicial District Court, Seat 26Nonpartisan race · Der Yang

Der Yang Nonpartisan

Der Yang is a judge of the Minnesota 2nd Judicial District Court. Appointed to the Ramsey County District Court on Nov. 12, 2024, by Governor Tim Walz, per the Minnesota Judicial Branch. Previously founder and managing attorney of Village Lawyer and an assistant public defender in the Seventh Judicial District, per the Minnesota Judicial Branch. No campaign website was found as of September 25, 2026.

Judge, Minnesota 2nd Judicial District Court, Seat 27Nonpartisan race · Kelly Olmstead

Kelly Olmstead Nonpartisan

Kelly Olmstead is a judge of the Minnesota 2nd Judicial District Court. Appointed Assistant Chief Judge of the Ramsey County District Court by Governor Mark Dayton on Aug. 6, 2018, and elected in 2020, per the Minnesota Judicial Branch. Previously an assistant Ramsey County attorney and civil trial attorney at Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi, per the Minnesota Judicial Branch. No campaign website was found as of September 25, 2026.

Judge, Minnesota 2nd Judicial District Court, Seat 28Nonpartisan race · Jennifer L. Verdeja

Jennifer L. Verdeja Nonpartisan

Jennifer L. Verdeja is a judge of the Minnesota 2nd Judicial District Court. Appointed to the Ramsey County District Court on Sept. 23, 2024, by Governor Tim Walz, per the Minnesota Judicial Branch. Previously an assistant Anoka County attorney and assistant director of Ramsey County's Trial and Pretrial Justice Division, per the Minnesota Judicial Branch. No campaign website was found as of September 25, 2026.

Full candidate profiles, priorities and campaign sites are on the Ramsey County page.

Statewide races

U.S. SenatePeggy Flanagan (DFL) · Michele Tafoya (R) · Marisa Simonetti (Independence-Alliance) · Rebecca Whiting (Libertarian)

Peggy Flanagan DFL

Top priorities
  • Ending corruption, which her campaign lists first among its priorities
  • Health care, which it lists second
  • Affording your life, which it lists third
About Peggy Flanagan
Peggy Flanagan

Flanagan serves as Minnesota's lieutenant governor, a position held since 2019, per the campaign site. Flanagan is a member of the White Earth Nation and holds a degree from the University of Minnesota, per the campaign site. The campaign site says Flanagan's background includes work as a nonprofit executive director, an organizational trainer, and a state legislator, and that Flanagan was elected to the Minneapolis School Board at age 25, per the campaign site.

Michele Tafoya Republican

Top priorities
  • Stop the fraud, which her campaign lists first among its four issues
  • Law and order, which it lists second
  • Cut costs and taxes for the middle class, which it lists third
About Michele Tafoya
Michele Tafoya

Michele Tafoya is a former network sports broadcaster and NFL sideline reporter, and the Republican nominee for Minnesota's open U.S. Senate seat.

Marisa Simonetti Independence-Alliance

Marisa Simonetti is the Independence-Alliance Party candidate on the November 3, 2026 ballot for Minnesota's U.S. Senate seat, per the Minnesota Secretary of State's certified general-election candidate table.

Rebecca Whiting Libertarian

Rebecca Whiting is the Libertarian Party candidate on the November 3, 2026 ballot for Minnesota's U.S. Senate seat, per the Minnesota Secretary of State's certified general-election candidate table.

GovernorAmy Klobuchar (D) · Lisa Demuth (R)

Amy Klobuchar Democrat

Top priorities
  • Lower costs for Minnesotans
  • Make government accountable and root out fraud
  • Prepare Minnesota's workforce for the future

Per the campaign site.

About Amy Klobuchar

Klobuchar is a sitting U.S. Senator seeking the Minnesota governorship; she previously served as a county prosecutor and is the granddaughter of an iron-ore miner and the daughter of a newspaperman and a second-grade teacher, per the campaign site.

Lisa Demuth Republican

Top priorities
  • Taxes and affordability, which her campaign names as her top priority
  • Eliminating fraud in state programs
  • Public safety

Per the campaign site.

About Lisa Demuth
Lisa Demuth

Lisa Demuth is speaker of the Minnesota House, a fourth-term state representative from Cold Spring, a former small-business owner and an eleven-year ROCORI school board member, and the Republican nominee for governor. She is the first Black major-party nominee for Minnesota governor.

Attorney GeneralKeith Ellison (DFL) · Ron Schutz (R)

Keith Ellison DFL Incumbent

Top 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
About Keith Ellison
Keith Ellison

Ellison is the incumbent Minnesota Attorney General running for re-election, per the campaign site. His office has worked on insulin cost reductions, consumer robocall protections and opioid settlement funds for the state, per the campaign site.

Ron Schutz Republican

Top priorities
  • Fighting fraud
  • Consumer protection
  • Tackling crime and supporting law enforcement

Per the campaign site.

About Ron Schutz
Ron Schutz

Ron Schutz is a trial lawyer who was a partner in a national litigation firm and served as its chairman from 2019 to 2024, per his campaign site, and the Republican nominee for Minnesota attorney general.

Secretary of StateSteve Simon (DFL) · Tad Jude (R) · George "Chip" Tangen (Libertarian) · Seth Kuhl-Stennes (Green)

Steve Simon DFL Incumbent

Top priorities
  • Defend democracy and strengthen the freedom to vote
  • Push back against election disinformation
  • Support small businesses and enhance protections for the most vulnerable

Per the campaign site.

About Steve Simon

Steve Simon is Minnesota's incumbent secretary of state, in office since 2015, and the DFL nominee for another term, unopposed in the August 11 primary. His office oversees elections, business filings, public records, voter information, and civic participation across Minnesota.

Tad Jude Republican

Top priorities
  • Require photo identification to vote
  • Clean up the voter rolls and verify citizenship
  • Prevent fraud in public programs

Per the campaign site.

About Tad Jude
Tad Jude

Tad Jude is a former district court judge in the 10th Judicial District and a former member of the Minnesota House, Minnesota Senate and Hennepin County Board, and the Republican nominee for secretary of state.

George "Chip" Tangen Libertarian

Top priorities
  • Nonpartisan administration of Minnesota elections
  • Ballot access for independent and minor-party candidates
  • Maximizing both voter participation and election security
About George "Chip" Tangen

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.

Seth Kuhl-Stennes Green

Top priorities
  • Expand voting access and ballot access
  • Increase election transparency
  • Support civic participation and community accountability
About Seth Kuhl-Stennes
Seth Kuhl-Stennes

Kuhl-Stennes is a Baudette, Minnesota native who has spent 20 years working across cooperatives, for-profit businesses and nonprofits, including seven years in union roles with UFCW Local 663 and OPEIU Local 12, per the campaign site. He holds a political science degree from the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University, per the campaign site.

AuditorZack Filipovich (DFL) · Scott Jensen (R) · Jay Reeves (Forward-Independence)

Zack Filipovich DFL

Top priorities
  • Transparency and accountability
  • Strengthening our communities
  • Communicating and building trust

Per the campaign site.

About Zack Filipovich
Zack Filipovich

Zack Filipovich is a certified management accountant and nonprofit finance manager and a former Duluth city councilor and council president, and the DFL nominee for state auditor, unopposed in the August 11 primary. The seat is open because Julie Blaha announced in September 2025 that she would not seek re-election. His campaign emphasizes local-government oversight, financial accountability, transparency, and support for communities managing public dollars.

Scott Jensen Republican

Top priorities
  • Stop fraud
  • Accountability and internal controls
  • Compliance and ongoing audits

Per the campaign site.

About Scott Jensen

Jensen is a candidate for Minnesota State Auditor and a family medicine physician with 40 years of practice in Carver County; he previously served in the Minnesota Senate and has served on a bank's board of directors as Audit Committee Chair and on his local school district board, per the campaign site.

Jay Reeves Forward-Independence

Top priorities
  • Offer independent oversight of public finances
  • Strengthen accountability and transparency
  • Bring military service experience to statewide office
About Jay Reeves
Jay Reeves

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.

Associate Justice, Supreme Court Seat 1Nonpartisan race · Sarah Hennesy

Sarah Hennesy Nonpartisan Incumbent

Sarah Hennesy serves as an associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, per the Minnesota Judicial Branch's roster of justices. Hennesy is the only name certified for this seat on the November 3, 2026 ballot, per the Minnesota Secretary of State's candidate table.

Associate Justice, Supreme Court Seat 4Nonpartisan race · Paul Thissen

Paul Thissen Nonpartisan Incumbent

Paul Thissen serves as an associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, per the Minnesota Judicial Branch's roster of justices. Thissen is the only name certified for this seat on the November 3, 2026 ballot, per the Minnesota Secretary of State's candidate table.

Judge, Court of Appeals Seat 1Nonpartisan race · Elizabeth Bentley

Elizabeth Bentley Nonpartisan Incumbent

Elizabeth Bentley serves as a judge of the Minnesota Court of Appeals, per the Minnesota Judicial Branch's roster of Court of Appeals judges. Bentley is the only name certified for this seat on the November 3, 2026 ballot, per the Minnesota Secretary of State's candidate table.

Judge, Court of Appeals Seat 7Nonpartisan race · Rachel Bond

Rachel Bond Nonpartisan Incumbent

Rachel Bond serves as a judge of the Minnesota Court of Appeals, per the Minnesota Judicial Branch's roster of Court of Appeals judges. Bond is the only name certified for this seat on the November 3, 2026 ballot, per the Minnesota Secretary of State's candidate table.

Judge, Court of Appeals Seat 13Nonpartisan race · Jeanne Cochran

Jeanne Cochran Nonpartisan Incumbent

Jeanne Cochran serves as a judge of the Minnesota Court of Appeals, per the Minnesota Judicial Branch's roster of Court of Appeals judges. Cochran is the only name certified for this seat on the November 3, 2026 ballot, per the Minnesota Secretary of State's candidate table.

Judge, Court of Appeals Seat 15Nonpartisan race · Kevin G. Ross

Kevin G. Ross Nonpartisan Incumbent

Kevin G. Ross serves as a judge of the Minnesota Court of Appeals, per the Minnesota Judicial Branch's roster of Court of Appeals judges. Ross is the only name certified for this seat on the November 3, 2026 ballot, per the Minnesota Secretary of State's candidate table.

Judge, Court of Appeals Seat 18Nonpartisan race · JaPaul J. Harris

JaPaul J. Harris Nonpartisan Incumbent

JaPaul J. Harris serves as a judge of the Minnesota Court of Appeals, per the Minnesota Judicial Branch's roster of Court of Appeals judges. Harris is the only name certified for this seat on the November 3, 2026 ballot, per the Minnesota Secretary of State's candidate table.

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