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The party was fined $170,000 for violating federal campaign finance regulations from 2003 to 2008. [4] The Chairman of the Minnesota Republican Party Tony Sutton (R) was found guilty of circumventing Finance Laws in the Gubernatorial Election Recount of 2010 and fined $33,000. (2010) [5] [6] The last Republican Governor of Minnesota was Tim ...
Minnesota has had a history of favoring the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL) candidates in presidential elections since the 1960s. However, Minnesota has also had an active Republican Party that has been viewed as gaining more support since the late 1990s and early 2000s due to population migration to the suburbs along with the party's focus on socially conservative positions ...
The Constitution Party, named the U.S. Taxpayers' Party until 1999, is an ultra-conservative political party in the United States that promotes a religiously conservative interpretation of the principles and intents of the United States Constitution.
An election in Minnesota Territory to select Republican and Democratic delegates to a state constitutional convention was held on June 1, 1857, following passage of an enabling act by the U.S. Congress on February 26 of that year ("The Enabling Act for a State of Minnesota"). The Republican version, as drafted by William Winthrop, a Yale Law ...
Treemap of the popular vote by county, 2016 presidential election.. Historically, the state was a Republican stronghold, never voting Democratic from statehood until 1932, however, since then it has voted Democratic all but thrice- 1952, 1956, and 1972. 1952 is also the last time the state voted for a non-incumbent Republican, and only once (2016) has the state voted to the right of the nation ...
May 16-18: The Republican Party of Minnesota hosts its state convention in St. Paul. Republicans will debate the party's platform and endorse a candidate to run in the U.S. Senate race against ...
The party has always been affiliated with the national Republican Party. 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 ...
The Supreme Court turned away a failed Minnesota state Senate candidate’s challenge to rulings that he falsely implied to have the Republican Party’s support during his 2022 write-in campaign.