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The Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL) is a political party in the U.S. state of Minnesota affiliated with the national Democratic Party. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The party was formed by a merger between the Minnesota Democratic Party and the Minnesota Farmer–Labor Party in 1944. [ 3 ]
When Martin was elected DFL Party Chair in 2011, he inherited a state party deeply in debt [8] following significant election losses including losing the majority in the State Senate for the first time in 40 years, the majority in the House of Representatives, and one of the longest held Democratic seats in Congress in MN-08 with the defeat of ...
2008 Minnesota Democratic Presidential Caucus Results Party Candidate Votes Percentage Delegates Democratic (DFL) Barack Obama: 142,109: 66.39%: 48: Democratic (DFL) Hillary Clinton: 68,994 32.23% 24 Democratic (DFL) Uncommitted 1,312 0.61% 0 Democratic (DFL) John Edwards: 985 0.46% 0 Democratic (DFL) Dennis Kucinich: 361 0.17% 0 Democratic ...
The Minnesota DFL has filed a petition with the state Supreme Court seeking to strip the Legal Marijuana Now Party of its major party status after a new state law raised the bar for major parties ...
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The Democrats will again keep control of the Minnesota Senate for the next two years. DFL retains control of Minnesota Senate; House currently split 67-67 Skip to main content
Congressman Martin Sabo, DFL, retired after 26 years in the House. Keith Ellison, also a DFLer, replaced him. Although Ellison was endorsed by the DFL convention, four non-endorsed candidates ran strong campaigns against him in the DFL primary: Gail Dorfman, Mike Erlandson, Ember Reichgott Junge, and Jack Nelson Pallmeyer. Ellison won the ...
In 1913, Minnesota legislators began to be elected on nonpartisan ballots. Nonpartisanship also was an historical accident that occurred in the 1913 session when a bill to provide for no party elections of judges and city and county officers was amended to include the Legislature in the belief that it would kill the bill.