Political party strength in North Dakota
The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. state of North Dakota:
- Governor
- Lieutenant Governor
- Secretary of State
- Attorney General
- State Treasurer
- State Auditor
- State Insurance Commissioner
- State Commissioner of Agriculture and Labor/State Agriculture Commissioner/State Labor Commissioner[1]
- State Tax Commissioner
- Superintendent of Public Instruction
The table also indicates the historical party composition in the:
- State Senate
- State House of Representatives
- State Public Service Commission
- State delegation to the United States Senate
- State delegation to the United States House of Representatives
For years in which a United States presidential election was held, the table indicates which party's nominees received the state's electoral votes.
The parties are as follows: Democratic (D), Democratic-Independent (D-I), Democratic Non-Partisan League (D-NPL), People's Party (P), Nonpartisan (NP), Republican (R), Republican/Independent Voters Association (R-IVA), and Republican/Non-Partisan League (R-NPL).
| Year | Executive offices | State Legislature | Pub. Ser. Com. | United States Congress | Electoral College votes | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Governor | Lt. Governor | Sec. of State | Attorney General | Treasurer | Auditor | Ins. Comm. | Ag. Comm. | Labor Comm. | Tax Comm. | Supt. of Pub. Inst. | State Senate | State House | U.S. Senator (Class I) | U.S. Senator (Class III) | U.S. House | |||||
| 1889 | John Miller (R) | Alfred Dickey (R) | John Flittie (R) | George F. Goodwin (R) | Lewis E. Booker (R) | John P. Bray (R) | A.L. Carey (R) | Henry T. Helgesen (R) | [2] | William Mitchell (R) | R majority | R majority | [3] | Lyman R. Casey (R) | Gilbert A. Pierce (R) | Henry C. Hansbrough (R) | ||||
| 1890 | William J. Clapp (R) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1891 | Andrew H. Burke (R) | Roger Allin (R) | Clarence A.M. Spencer (R) | John Ogden (R) | Henry C. Hansbrough (R) | Martin N. Johnson (R) | ||||||||||||||
| 1892 | Archie Currie (R) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1893 | Eli C. D. Shortridge (D-I) | Elmer D. Wallace (D-I) | Christian M. Dahl (R) | William H. Standish (D-I) | Knud J. Nomland (D-I) | Arthur W. Porter (D-I) | James Cudhie (D-I) | Nelson Williams (D-I)[4] | Laura J. Eisenhuth (D-I) | William N. Roach (D) | Grover Cleveland and Adlai E. Stevenson (D)  |
Benjamin Harrison and Whitelaw Reid (R)  |
James B. Weaver and James Gaven Field (P) | |||||||
| 1894 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1895 | Roger Allin (R) | John H. Worst (R) | John F. Cowan (R) | George E. Nichols (R) | Frank A. Briggs (R) | Frederick B. Fancher (R) | Andrew H. Laughlin (R) | Emma F. Bates (R) | ||||||||||||
| 1896 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1897 | Frank A. Briggs (R)[5] | Joseph M. Devine (R) | Fred Falley (R) | Nathan B. Hannum (R) | Henry U. Thomas (R) | John G. Halland (R) | William McKinley and Garret Hobart (R) | |||||||||||||
| 1898 | Joseph M. Devine (R) | vacant | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1899 | Frederick B. Fancher (R) | Joseph M. Devine (R) | Dennis W. Driscoll (R) | Albert N. Carlblom (R) | George W. Harrison (R) | Porter J. McCumber (R) | Burleigh F. Spalding (R) | |||||||||||||
| 1900 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1901 | Frank White (R) | David Bartlett (R) | Edward F. Porter (R) | Oliver D. Comstock (R) | Donald H. McMillan (R) | Ferdinand Leutz (R) | Rollin J. Turner (R) | Joseph M. Devine (R) | Thomas Frank Marshall (R) | William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt (R) | ||||||||||
| 1902 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1903 | Carl N. Frich (R) | Herbert L. Holmes (R) | Walter L. Stockwell (R) | 2R | ||||||||||||||||
| 1904 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1905 | Elmore Y. Sarles (R) | Albert Peterson (R) | Ernest C. Cooper (R) | William C. Gilbreath (R) | Theodore Roosevelt and Charles W. Fairbanks (R) | |||||||||||||||
| 1906 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1907 | John Burke (D) | Robert S. Lewis (R) | Alfred Blaisdell (R) | Thomas F. McCue (R) | ||||||||||||||||
| 1908 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1909 | Andrew Miller (R) | George L. Bickford (R) | David K. Brightbill (R) | Martin N. Johnson (R)[5] | William Howard Taft and James S. Sherman (R) | |||||||||||||||
| Fountain L. Thompson (D)[6] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1910 | William E. Purcell (D) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1911 | Usher L. Burdick (R) | Patrick D. Norton (R) | Gunder Olson (R) | Walter C. Taylor (R) | Edwin J. Taylor (R) | Asle Gronna (R) | ||||||||||||||
| 1912 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1913 | L. B. Hanna (R) | Anton T. Kraabel (R) | Thomas Hall (R) | Carl O. Jorgenson (R) | 3R | Woodrow Wilson and Thomas R. Marshall (D) | ||||||||||||||
| 1914 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1915 | John H. Fraine (R) | Henry Linde (R) | John Steen (R) | Robert F. Flint (R) | ||||||||||||||||
| 1916 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1917 | Lynn Frazier (R-NPL)[7] | Anton T. Kraabel (R) | William Langer (R-NPL) | Carl R. Kositzky (R) | Sveinung A. Olsness (R) | John N. Hagan (R-NPL) | Neil C. MacDonald (NP) | |||||||||||||
| 1918 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1919 | Howard R. Wood (R) | Obert A. Olson (R) | George E. Wallace (R)[8] | Minnie J. Nelson (NP) | ||||||||||||||||
| 1920 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1921 | Ragnvald A. Nestos (R-IVA) | William Lemke (R-NPL) | John Steen (R) | David C. Poindexter (R) | Joseph A. Kitchen (R) | Edwin F. Ladd (R)[5] | Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge (R) | |||||||||||||
| Sveinbjorn Johnson (R) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1922 | C.C. Converse (R)[8] | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1923 | Frank H. Hyland (R) | George F. Shafer (R) | Lynn Frazier (R-NPL) | |||||||||||||||||
| 1924 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1925 | Arthur G. Sorlie (R-NPL)[5] | Walter Maddock (R-NPL) | Robert Byrne (R) | Chessmur A. Fischer (R) | John Steen (R) | Thorstein H. Thoresen (R)[8] | Gerald Nye (R) | Calvin Coolidge and Charles G. Dawes (R) | ||||||||||||
| 1926 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1927 | Bertha R. Palmer (NP) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1928 | Walter Maddock (R-NPL) | vacant | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1929 | George F. Shafer (R-IVA) | John W. Carr (R) | James Morris (R) | Berta E. Baker (R) | Iver A. Acker (R)[8] | Herbert Hoover and Charles Curtis (R) | ||||||||||||||
| 1930 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1931 | R-IVA or R majority | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1932 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1933 | William Langer (R-NPL) | Ole H. Olson (R-NPL) | Arthur J. Gronna (R) | Alfred S. Dale (R) | John Husby (R) | F.A. Vogel (R)[8] | Arthur E. Thompson (NP) | R-NPL majority | 1R, 1R-NPL | Franklin D. Roosevelt and John Nance Garner (D) | ||||||||||
| Peter O. Sathre (R) | J.J. Weeks (R)[8] | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1934 | Ole H. Olson (R-NPL) | vacant | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1935 | Thomas H. Moodie (D)[9] | Walter Welford (R-NPL) | James D. Gronna (R) | John Gray (R) | Berta E. Baker (R) | Harold Hopton (R) | Theodore Martell (R-NPL) | |||||||||||||
| Walter Welford (R-NPL) | vacant | Lee Nichols (R)[8] | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1936 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1937 | William Langer (R-NPL) | Thorstein H. Thoresen (R) | Alvin C. Strutz (R) | Oscar E. Erickson (R) | John N. Hagan (R-NPL) | John Kenneth Murray (R)[8] | ||||||||||||||
| Owen T. Owen (R)[8] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1938 | Claude P. Stone (R)[8] | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1939 | John Moses (D) | Jack A. Patterson (R) | John R. Omland (R) | Math Dahl (R-NPL) | William T. DePuy (D)[8] | |||||||||||||||
| Lee Nichols (R)[8] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| John Gray (D)[5][10] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1940 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1941 | Oscar W. Hagen (R-NPL) | Herman Thorson (R) | Carl Anderson (R) | John Gray (NP)[10] | R-IVA majority | R-IVA or R majority | 3R | William Langer (R-NPL) | 2R | Wendell Willkie and Charles L. McNary (R) | ||||||||||
| 1942 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1943 | Henry Holt (D) | Thomas Hall (R) | 1R, 1R-NPL | |||||||||||||||||
| 1944 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1945 | Fred George Aandahl (R) | Clarence P. Dahl (R) | Nels G. Johnson (R) | Otto Krueger (R) | Otto Krueger (R) | R majority | R majority | John Moses (D)[5] | Thomas E. Dewey and John W. Bricker (R) | |||||||||||
| Hjalmer W. Swenson (R) | Milton Young (R) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1946 | Garfield B. Nordrum (NP) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1947 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1948 | Peter O. Sathre (R) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1949 | Albert Jacobson (R) | Thomas E. Dewey and Earl Warren (R) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1950 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1951 | Clarence Norman Brunsdale (R) | Ray Schnell (R) | Elmo T. Christianson (R) | Alfred J. Jensen (R) | Marvell F. Peterson (NP) | 2R | ||||||||||||||
| 1952 | Burtis B. Conyne (NP) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1953 | Clarence P. Dahl (R) | Ray Thompson (R) | J. Arthur Engen (NP) | R-NPL majority | Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon (R) | |||||||||||||||
| 1954 | Paul Benson (R) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1955 | Ben Meier (R) | Leslie R. Burgum (R) | Albert Jacobson (R) | |||||||||||||||||
| 1956 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1957 | John E. Davis (R) | Francis Clyde Duffy (R) | Curtis G. Olson (R) | R majority | ||||||||||||||||
| 1958 | Mike J. Baumgartner (R) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1959 | Clarence P. Dahl (R) | John R. Erickson (R) | Clarence Norman Brunsdale (R) | 1R, 1D-NPL | ||||||||||||||||
| 1960 | Quentin N. Burdick (D-NPL) | Don L. Short (R) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1961 | William L. Guy (D-NPL) | Orville W. Hagen (R) | 2R, 1D-NPL | 2R | Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (R) | |||||||||||||||
| 1962 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1963 | Frank A. Wenstrom (R) | Helgi Johanneson (R) | Phil Hoghaug (R) | Frank Albers (R) | Lloyd Omdahl (NP/D-NPL) | |||||||||||||||
| 1964 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1965 | Charles Tighe (D-NPL) | Walter Christensen (D-NPL) | Karsten O. Nygaard (R) | Arne Dahl (R) | D-NPL majority | 1R, 1D-NPL | Lyndon B. Johnson and Hubert Humphrey (D) | |||||||||||||
| 1966 | Edwin O. Sjaasstad (NP) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1967 | Arne Dahl (R)[5] | Orville W. Hagen (NP/R) | R majority | 2R | ||||||||||||||||
| 1968 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1969 | Richard F. Larsen (R) | Bernice Asbridge (R) | Jorris O. Wigen (R) | Byron Dorgan (NP/D-NPL) | Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew (R) | |||||||||||||||
| 1970 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1971 | 1R, 1D-NPL | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1972 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1973 | Arthur A. Link (D-NPL) | Wayne Sanstead (D-NPL) | Allen I. Olson (R) | Walter Christensen (D-NPL) | Robert W. Peterson (R) | Mark Andrews (R) | ||||||||||||||
| 1974 | Myron Just (D-NPL) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1975 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1976 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1977 | Byron Knutson (D-NPL) | Howard Snortland (NP) | Gerald Ford and Bob Dole (R) | |||||||||||||||||
| 1978 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1979 | Robert E. Hanson (D-NPL) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1980 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1981 | Allen I. Olson (R) | Ernest Sands (R) | Robert Wefald (R) | John S. Lesmeister (R) | Jorris O. Wigen (R) | H. Kent Jones (R) | Kent Conrad (NP/D-NPL) | Joseph Crawford (NP) | Mark Andrews (R) | Byron Dorgan (D-NPL) | Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush (R) | |||||||||
| 1982 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1983 | D-NPL majority | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1984 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1985 | George A. Sinner (D-NPL) | Ruth Meiers (D-NPL) | Nicholas Spaeth (D-NPL) | Robert E. Hanson (D-NPL) | Earl Pomeroy (D-NPL) | Wayne Sanstead (NP/D-NPL) | R majority | |||||||||||||
| 1986 | Heidi Heitkamp (D-NPL) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1987 | Lloyd Omdahl (D-NPL) | Byron Knutson (NP/D-NPL) | D-NPL majority | Kent Conrad (D-NPL)[6] | ||||||||||||||||
| 1988 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1989 | Jim Kusler (D-NPL) | Sarah Vogel (D-NPL) | George H. W. Bush and Dan Quayle (R) | |||||||||||||||||
| 1990 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1991 | Craig Hagen (NP) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1992 | Jocelyn Burdick (D-NPL) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Kent Conrad (D-NPL) | Byron Dorgan (D-NPL) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1993 | Ed Schafer (R) | Rosemarie Myrdal (R) | Alvin Jaeger (R) | Heidi Heitkamp (D-NPL) | Kathi Gilmore (D-NPL) | Glenn Pomeroy (D-NPL) | Robert E. Hanson (D-NPL) | Earl Pomeroy (D-NPL) | George H. W. Bush and Dan Quayle (R) | |||||||||||
| 1994 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1995 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1996 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1997 | Bob Peterson (R) | Roger Johnson (D-NPL)[6] | Rick Clayburgh (R)[6] | R majority | Bob Dole and Jack Kemp (R) | |||||||||||||||
| 1998 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1999 | Tony Clark (NP/R) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2000 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2001 | John Hoeven (R) | Jack Dalrymple (R) | Wayne Stenehjem (R) | Jim Poolman (R)[6] | Mark D. Bachmeier (NP) | 32R, 17D | 69R, 29D | 3R | George W. Bush and Dick Cheney (R) | |||||||||||
| 2002 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2003 | 31R, 16D | 66R, 28D | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2004 | LeAnn K. Bertsch (NP) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2005 | Kelly Schmidt (R) | 32R, 15D | 67R, 27D | |||||||||||||||||
| Lisa K. Fair McEvers (NP/R) | Cory Fong (R) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2007 | 26R, 21D | 61R, 33D | ||||||||||||||||||
| Adam Hamm (R) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2009 | Doug Goehring (R)[11] | 58R, 36D | John McCain and Sarah Palin (R) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2010 | Tony Weiler (NP)[6] | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2011 | Jack Dalrymple (R) | Drew Wrigley (R) | 35R, 12D | 69R, 25D | John Hoeven (R) | Rick Berg (R) | ||||||||||||||
| 2012 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2013 | Bonnie Storbakken (NP)[11] | Kirsten Baesler (NP/R) | 33R, 14D | 71R, 23D | Heidi Heitkamp (D) | Kevin Cramer (R) | Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan (R) | |||||||||||||
| 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2015 | Ryan Rauschenberger (R) | 32R, 15D | ||||||||||||||||||
| Year | Governor | Lt. Governor | Sec. of State | Attorney General | Treasurer | Auditor | Ins. Comm. | Ag. Comm. | Labor Comm. | Tax Comm. | Supt. of Pub. Inst. | State Senate | State House | Pub. Ser. Com. | U.S. Senator (Class I) | U.S. Senator (Class III) | U.S. House | Electoral College votes | ||
| Executive offices | State Legislature | United States Congress | ||||||||||||||||||
Notes
- ↑ The Commissioner of Agriculture and Labor was an elected official who headed the state Department of Agriculture and Labor. The office was established by the state constitution in 1889 but was split into two separate offices—the Commissioner of Labor and the Commissioner of Agriculture—in 1966, when the two departments also split due to a constitutional change approved by the electorate in 1964.
- ↑ Office established in 1919.
- ↑ Named North Dakota Railroad Commission until 1940; Railroad Commissioners might have been elected on a non-partisan ballot.
- ↑ George E. Adams won the 1892 election but did not qualify for the office; Williams was appointed to the position instead.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 Died in office.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 Resigned.
- ↑ Recalled.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 8.7 8.8 8.9 8.10 8.11 The office was an appointed position from 1919 until 1940. Partisan affiliation given is that of corresponding Governor.
- ↑ After Moodie's inauguration on January 7, 1935, it was revealed that he had voted in a 1932 municipal election in Minnesota. In order to be eligible to serve as governor of North Dakota, an individual has to have lived in the state for five consecutive years before the election. The state Supreme Court determined that Moodie was ineligible to serve, and he was removed from office on February 16, 1935.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Was a first appointed by a Democratic governor, although beginning in 1940 he ran on a nonpartisan ballot.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Appointed by Governor to fill vacancy.