In September 2006, Ventura endorsed and campaigned with independent Texas gubernatorial candidate Kinky Friedman, and Independence Party of Minnesota's gubernatorial candidate Peter Hutchinson and Team Minnesota.

A founder and chair of the Minnesota Reform Party ( the predecessor of the Independence Party of Minnesota ), he chaired Jesse Ventura's successful 1998 gubernatorial campaign ; Ventura subsequently appointed him director of the state's Office of Strategic and Long Range Planning.

* List of Minnesota gubernatorial elections

The 2006 gubernatorial race included Minnesota Attorney General Mike Hatch, of the DFL ; Peter Hutchinson of the Independence Party ; and Ken Pentel of the Green Party.

By 1998 he was again encouraged to run for higher office, and entered the DFL gubernatorial primary, winning handily in a crowded field ( which included another scion of an eminent Minnesota political family, Ted Mondale ).

He was elected governor in his own right in November 1944, receiving the largest majority ever won by a gubernatorial candidate in Minnesota.

* Biographical information and his gubernatorial records are available for research use at the Minnesota Historical Society.

A Republican, Anderson first ran for lieutenant governor of Minnesota in 1938 with gubernatorial candidate Harold Stassen.

* Biographical information, gubernatorial records, and Ramsey's personal papers are available for research use at the Minnesota Historical Society.

* Biographical information and his gubernatorial records are available for research use at the Minnesota Historical Society.

* Biographical information and his gubernatorial records are available for research use at the Minnesota Historical Society.

* Biographical information and his gubernatorial records are available for research use at the Minnesota Historical Society.

* Biographical information and his gubernatorial records are available for research use at the Minnesota Historical Society.

* Biographical information and his gubernatorial records are available for research use at the Minnesota Historical Society.

* Biographical information and his gubernatorial records are available for research use at the Minnesota Historical Society.

* Biographical information and his gubernatorial records are available for research use at the Minnesota Historical Society.

* Biographical information and his gubernatorial records are available for research use at the Minnesota Historical Society.

* Biographical information and his gubernatorial records are available for research use at the Minnesota Historical Society.

* Biographical information and his gubernatorial records are available for research use at the Minnesota Historical Society.

* Biographical information and his gubernatorial records are available for research use at the Minnesota Historical Society.

* Biographical information and his gubernatorial records are available for research use at the Minnesota Historical Society.

* Biographical information, his gubernatorial records, and personal papers are available for research use at the Minnesota Historical Society.

In the election, Mondale was defeated in a landslide by President Reagan, gaining electoral votes from only his home state of Minnesota and the District of Columbia.

Perot did not give an endorsement during Jesse Ventura's run for governor of Minnesota in the 1998 election, and this became suspicious to detractors when he made fun of Ventura at a conference after Ventura had a falling out with the press.

The local voters, unlike the rest of Minnesota, voted overwhelmingly against Mondale in the 1984 election.

In 2000, North Red River Township was disorganized after the Minnesota legislature voted to allow Kittson County to dissolve the township without an election.

" Upon earning his Ph. D., Wellstone accepted a job as a Professor of Political Science at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, where he taught until his election to the Senate in 1990.

Boschwitz was also hurt by a letter his supporters wrote, on campaign stationery, to members of the Minnesota Jewish community days before the election, accusing Wellstone of being a " bad Jew " for marrying a Gentile and not raising his children in the Jewish faith.

In the 1988 election, his name appeared on the ballot as the Presidential candidate of a handful of left-wing state parties, such as the Consumer Party in Pennsylvania and the Minnesota Progressive Party in Minnesota.

The minimum required age of a candidate for the Governor of Minnesota is 25 years ( having been a Minnesota resident for one year before the election ).

Carlson was elected the 37th Governor of Minnesota in the November 1990 general election, and served from January 7, 1991 – January 4, 1999.

After winning a narrow Republican primary in 2002, Pawlenty won a three-way election for Governor of Minnesota, and was re-elected in 2006 by a margin of less than one percent.

His term ended on January 3, 2009, and after a six-month legal battle in which he lost each decision in the process, the Minnesota Supreme Court unanimously declared Franken the election winner by 312 votes ( out of over 3 million cast ) on June 30, 2009, prompting Coleman to concede.

On December 24, 2008, after losing a unanimous decision at the hands of the Minnesota Supreme Court, Coleman's lawyers stated that it was now a " virtual certainty " that Coleman would contest the results of the election.

On August 10, 2010, Dayton defeated the DFL endorsed Margaret Anderson Kelliher in a close primary election, winning 41. 33 % compared to Kelliher's 39. 75 %;) Dayton was later endorsed by the Minnesota DFL to earn his party's nomination for governor.

Minnesota Independence Party candidate Tom Horner received 11. 9 % of the vote, and it has been suggested that Horner cost Emmer the election, by splitting the vote.

Owing, once again, to his being elected by the state legislature, Nelson's campaign for reelection in 1902 actually started with the election for the Minnesota state legislature in 1900.

Following the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, women were eligible for election to the Minnesota legislature.

In early 2005, press releases from the Reform Party indicated that the party was in the process of rebuilding, with appeals for donations, attempts to reconstitute state party affiliates that were lost during the breakaways of such groups as the Independence Party of Minnesota and the America First Party, and the election of new party officials.

Despite a strong showing in the 1996 U. S. presidential election, today the Reform Party is not generally perceived as a major player in national politics, though it has impacted state elections, notably with Jesse Ventura becoming Governor of Minnesota.

Senator Paul Wellstone of Minnesota was killed in a plane crash in 2002, 11 days before a U. S. Senate election.

* Minnesota Public Radio: Coleman, Mondale debate on eve of election

Minnesota narrowly supported native Walter Mondale in 1984 in an election where Ronald Reagan won every other state.

In the general election of 2010, the party captured both chambers of the Minnesota Legislature for the first time since the 1970s, and defeated 18-term Minnesota Congressman Jim Oberstar by electing Chip Cravaack, despite having lost every statewide race.