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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. [5] [6] The party was formed by a merger between the Minnesota Democratic Party and the Minnesota Farmer–Labor Party in 1944. [7]
Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party political banner atop a car, circa 1925. The Minnesota Farmer–Labor Party emerged from the Non-Partisan League (NPL), which had expanded from North Dakota into Minnesota in 1918, [12] and the Union Labor Party (ULP) of Duluth, Minnesota, which was founded in February 1918. [12]
The Minnesota Farmer–Labor Party was a populist political party that managed to elect some of its candidates to the United States Congress, a rare feat among American third political parties, and eventually merged with the Minnesota Democratic Party in 1944 to create the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party. The success of the ...
Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party Chairman Ken Martin has been elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Martin secured 246.5 votes of the total 428 members who voted in person ...
Ken Martin, the chair of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party, speaks at the Minnesota DFL Party election watch party at the InterContinental Hotel in Saint Paul, Minnesota, on Nov. 5 ...
On Saturday, Feb. 1, the Democratic Nation Committee chose a new party chairperson, Minnesota’s Ken Martin. Martin, the longtime head of the state’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, promised to ...
The Farmer–Labor Party continued to exist as a successful state party in Minnesota until 1944, when it merged with the Democratic Party of that state to form the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL). Minnesota elected Farmer-Labor candidates to the United States House of Representatives in all but one election between 1918 and 1942:
Ken Martin, chair of the Minnesota Democratic-Farm-Labor Party (DFL) and a candidate for the Democratic National Committee (DNC) chair, argued the party must be willing to “recenter” its ...