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1976 general · November 2, 1976

1976 Minnesota State Senate election results, district by district

Every Minnesota State Senate district in the 1976 general election: winners, margins, unopposed seats and seats that changed party.

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Seats after the election

Democrats controlled the chamber · 67 seats

After the electionD 49 · R 18
Races67
Changed party65
Unopposed9%6 races
Incumbents defeated7

Every district

D 49 · R 18

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
SD-1Marv Hanson (D)14.0Flipped
SD-2Roger Moe (D)27.3Flipped
SD-3Bob Lessard (D)UnopposedFlipped
SD-4Gerald Willet (D)12.4Flipped
SD-5George Perpich (D)UnopposedFlipped
SD-6Douglas Johnson (D)UnopposedFlipped
SD-7Sam Solon (D)60.4Flipped
SD-8James Ulland (R)34.5Flipped
SD-9D. H. Sillers (R)6.4Flipped
SD-10Collin C. Peterson (D)9.1Flipped
SD-11Wayne Olhoft (D)15.5Flipped
SD-12Myrton Wegener (D)10.1Flipped
SD-13Winston W. Borden (D)23.2Flipped
SD-14Florian Chmielewski (D)UnopposedFlipped
SD-15Roger Strand (D)2.2FlippedIncumbent lost
SD-16Ed Schrom (D)26.3Flipped
SD-17Jack Kleinbaum (D)42.6Flipped
SD-18Robert Dunn (R)9.7Flipped
SD-19Jerald C. Anderson (D)UnopposedFlipped
SD-20Jim Nichols (D)5.7FlippedIncumbent lost
SD-21Alec Olson (D)11.5Flipped
SD-22John Bernhagen (R)8.2Flipped
SD-23Earl Renneke (R)UnopposedFlipped
SD-24Clarence Purfeerst (D)37.5Flipped
SD-25Steve Engler (R)12.3Flipped
SD-26Marion Menning (D)15.0Flipped
SD-27Howard D. Olson (D)4.7Flipped
SD-28Carl Jensen (R)16.3Flipped
SD-29Arnulf Ueland Jr. (R)14.7Flipped
SD-30Timothy Penny (D)3.9FlippedIncumbent lost
SD-31Tom Nelson (D)11.2Flipped
SD-32Mel Frederick (R)36.9Flipped
SD-33Nancy Brataas (R)36.2Flipped
SD-34Roger Laufenburger (D)1.0Flipped
SD-35Jerome Gunderson (D)0.5Flipped
SD-36Robert Schmitz (D)44.1Flipped
SD-37W. G. Kirchner (R)10.7Flipped
SD-38Robert M. Benedict (D)33.8Flipped
SD-39Otto Bang (R)29.8Flipped
SD-40John Keefe (R)34.9Flipped
SD-41B. Robert Lewis (D)8.1Flipped
SD-42George Pillsbury (R)1.9Flipped
SD-43Emily Staples (D)1.6FlippedIncumbent lost
SD-44Hubert H. Humphrey III (D)37.2Flipped
SD-45William Luther (D)44.8FlippedIncumbent lost
SD-46David D. Schaaf (D)24.6Flipped
SD-47Gene Merriam (D)45.7
SD-48Robert O. Ashbach (R)14.4Flipped
SD-49John Milton (D)30.5Flipped
SD-50Jerome Hughes (D)40.9Flipped
SD-51Gerry Sikorski (D)14.6Flipped
SD-52Conrad M. Vega (D)4.7FlippedIncumbent lost
SD-53Howard Knutson (R)13.7Flipped
SD-54Edward Gearty (D)55.5Flipped
SD-55Eugene Stokowaski (D)50.2Flipped
SD-56Robert J. Tennesseen (D)51.1Flipped
SD-57Allan Spear (D)40.0Flipped
SD-58Harmon T. Ogdahl (R)10.5Flipped
SD-59Stephen Keefe (D)55.8Flipped
SD-60Jack Davies (D)35.5Flipped
SD-61Frank Knoll (D)13.2FlippedIncumbent lost
SD-62Neil Dieterich (D)23.8Flipped
SD-63Ron Sieloff (R)3.5Flipped
SD-64Peter Stumpf (D)53.2
SD-65Nicholas D. Coleman (D)54.8Flipped
SD-66John Chenoweth (D)45.5Flipped
SD-67Bill McCutcheon (D)32.6Flipped

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