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1972 general · February 1, 1972

1972 Minnesota State Senate election results, district by district

Every Minnesota State Senate district in the 1972 general election: winners, margins, unopposed seats and seats that changed party.

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Seats after the election

Control · 67 seats

After the electionD 0 · R 0
Races67
Changed party0
Unopposed3%2 races
Incumbents defeated6

Every district

Other 67

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
SD-1Richard Fitzsimons (OTH)6.3
SD-2Roger Moe (OTH)33.5
SD-3Norbert Arnold (OTH)51.1
SD-4Gerald Willet (OTH)29.0
SD-5George Perpich (OTH)16.3
SD-6A. J. Perpich (OTH)23.8
SD-7Sam Solon (OTH)Unopposed
SD-8Ralph R. Doty (OTH)16.9
SD-9D. H. Sillers (OTH)40.2
SD-10Roger Hanson (OTH)23.1
SD-11Wayne Olhoft (OTH)16.8Incumbent lost
SD-12Myrton Wegener (OTH)9.3
SD-13Winston W. Borden (OTH)35.8
SD-14Florian Chmielewski (OTH)27.3
SD-15Charles Berg (OTH)3.1
SD-16Ed Schrom (OTH)13.2
SD-17Jack Kleinbaum (OTH)25.1
SD-18Robert Dunn (OTH)42.1
SD-19Jerald C. Anderson (OTH)10.4
SD-20J. A. Josefson (OTH)14.2Incumbent lost
SD-21Alec Olson (OTH)14.5
SD-22John Bernhagen (OTH)3.6Incumbent lost
SD-23Earl Renneke (OTH)46.0
SD-24Clarence Purfeerst (OTH)15.9
SD-25George Conzemius (OTH)24.8
SD-26John Olson (OTH)8.7
SD-27Howard D. Olson (OTH)5.2
SD-28Carl Jensen (OTH)17.5
SD-29Arnulf Ueland Jr. (OTH)1.0
SD-30John Patton (OTH)31.5
SD-31C. R. Hansen (OTH)6.8Incumbent lost
SD-32Mel Frederick (OTH)45.6
SD-33Harold G. Krieger (OTH)63.6
SD-34Roger Laufenburger (OTH)11.0
SD-35Lew W. Larson (OTH)28.7
SD-36Jim Lord (OTH)0.2
SD-37W. G. Kirchner (OTH)20.3
SD-38Jerome V. Blatz (OTH)36.6
SD-39Otto Bang (OTH)22.1
SD-40John Keefe (OTH)2.5
SD-41B. Robert Lewis (OTH)1.4
SD-42George Pillsbury (OTH)15.1
SD-43Rolf Nelson (OTH)40.8
SD-44Hubert H. Humphrey III (OTH)9.5
SD-45Al Kowalczyk (OTH)22.9
SD-46David D. Schaaf (OTH)24.0
SD-47Stanley N. Thorup (OTH)18.7
SD-48Robert O. Ashbach (OTH)43.5
SD-49John Milton (OTH)18.7
SD-50Jerome Hughes (OTH)1.4Incumbent lost
SD-51Robert J. Brown (OTH)46.6
SD-52Bob Stassen (OTH)14.2
SD-53Howard Knutson (OTH)48.1
SD-54Edward Gearty (OTH)65.8
SD-55Eugene Stokowaski (OTH)19.2
SD-56Robert J. Tennesseen (OTH)25.5
SD-57Allan Spear (OTH)4.5
SD-58Harmon T. Ogdahl (OTH)36.4
SD-59Stephen Keefe (OTH)23.7
SD-60Jack Davies (OTH)16.9
SD-61Mel Hansen (OTH)0.1
SD-62Robert North (OTH)4.8Incumbent lost
SD-63Joseph T. Oneill (OTH)8.3
SD-64Edward G. Novak (OTH)Unopposed
SD-65Nicholas D. Coleman (OTH)49.5
SD-66John Chenoweth (OTH)34.8
SD-67Bill McCutcheon (OTH)6.9

Minnesota State Senate

Results are each source's final count; margins are the winner's lead over the runner-up in points of the vote. Source: Harvard Dataverse / Carl Klarner