What a night! The world looks very different than it did 24 hours ago! Nationwide and statewide, the political earthquake is incredible.

There has been less notice of the amazing job done by our own candidates. Despite not ending up in the winning column, each of them has done amazingly well in this tough district. We are finally getting across the 40% barrier and improving on previous races. Here are some key statistics.

State Senate Candidate:

GADISA BERKESSA

Overall total: 38.8%
Improved over last senate race by 2.6% and more than 3,000 votes
31A total: 43.7%
Only the second time SD31 has gone over 40%!

State House Candidate in 31A:

BRIAN WALKER

Overall total: 44.8%
Improved over last race by 6.1%
Best outcome of all SD31 candidates this year
Did better even than Doug Chapin in his district!

State House Candidate in 31B:  

JEN BLOOMQUIST

Overall total: 34.1%—
The best we have done in this race in the last 4 elections!
Improved over the last race in a challenging district by 4.7%!

MN CD6 Candidate:

DOUG CHAPIN

CD6 total: 44.2%
SD31 overall: 40.4%
31A total: 44.9% ***
31B total: 35.9%
Doug’s result is almost 20% better than in 2020 (and the reverse for Emmer)!

***AND–drum roll please–in 31A Doug actually did better than the CD6 overall %!

MN CD3 Candidate KELLY MORRISON
SD31 total: 57.1%
Our DFL candidate actually won in this one part of our district (just one precinct).

AMY KLOBUCHAR results:
31A 44.3%
31B 34.8%

PEGGY FLANAGAN results:
31A: 42.0%
31B: 32.8%

This is a first look at our local races. There are of course lots more details to look at. We will be working on precinct-by-precinct data.  

But in short, our candidates have all done themselves, and us, proud— thanks to the efforts of so many of you.  

SO— AGAIN, THANKS TO OUR CANDIDATES, AND ALSO TO ALL OF YOU VOLUNTEERS WHO MADE THESE RESULTS POSSIBLE!  

Let’s congratulate our candidates and all of our volunteers—take a well-earned rest—and then start the work that is ahead of us!