1976Flipped from independentFinal results
1976 election for Minnesota Senate District 17
Minnesota State Senate · Minnesota
Jack Kleinbaum (D) won with 71.3% of the vote, defeating Paul Eberhart (R) by 42.6 points, a seat another party won last time.
Jack KleinbaumDemocrat · winner · incumbent
71.3%17,972
Paul EberhartRepublican
28.7%7,237
25,209 votes
Source: Harvard Dataverse / Carl KlarnerUpdated Sep 30, 2026, 7:29 AM ET
The seat over time
D − R margin in this seat's races around 1976
Races before and after
Source: Harvard Dataverse / Carl KlarnerUpdated Sep 30, 2026, 7:29 AM ET