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Who is on the ballot in 55708?

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U.S. House, Minnesota District 8
2 candidates
Federal ▾
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Pete Stauber
REP INCUMBENT
Biography
Stauber is a sitting member of the U.S. House and a former professional hockey player and retired police officer with 23 years of service, including as an Area Commander with the Duluth Police Department and President of the Law Enforcement Labor Services Union, Local 363, per the campaign site.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Affordability and tax relief, including a lower cost of living for Minnesota families
  • Border security, including support for Border Patrol agents and more security measures along the border
  • American energy and critical mineral dominance
Key voting record
Voted yes on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the 2025 tax-and-spending package, which passed the House 218-214 in July 2025. Supported
Voted yes on the Laken Riley Act, expanding federal detention of certain immigrants charged with theft or violent crimes, which passed the House 263-156 in January 2025. Supported
Voted yes on the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2026, which passed the House 231-196 in September 2025. Supported
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Trina Swanson
DEM
Biography
Attorney and founding partner of JET Global Solutions from Hermantown who spent almost 20 years at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, per her KAXE guide responses.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Care Close to Home
  • Mining That Works for Minnesota
  • Real Affordability
About this race
Candidate list from the Minnesota Secretary of State, as certified for the August 11, 2026 primary. Each party's primary winner advanced to the November 3 general ballot; candidates who filed by petition appear only on the November ballot. Both August 11 primaries are decided: incumbent Pete Stauber won the Republican contest with 86.45 percent over Anthony Hamilton (13.55), and Trina Swanson won the DFL contest with 77.24 percent over Luke Gulbranson (16.87) and John Munter (5.88). Vote shares are unofficial until the state canvass.
U.S. Senate
4 candidates
Federal ▾
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Peggy Flanagan
Biography
Flanagan serves as Minnesota's lieutenant governor, a position held since 2019, per the campaign site. Flanagan is a member of the White Earth Nation and holds a degree from the University of Minnesota, per the campaign site. The campaign site says Flanagan's background includes work as a nonprofit executive director, an organizational trainer, and a state legislator, and that Flanagan was elected to the Minneapolis School Board at age 25, per the campaign site.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Ending corruption
  • Healthcare
  • Affording your life
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Michele Tafoya
REP
Biography
Michele Tafoya is a four-time Emmy Award-winning broadcaster and a former NFL sideline reporter whose career spanned nearly three decades, per the campaign site. The campaign site says she retired after covering Super Bowl LVI in February 2022 and is now a political and cultural commentator.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Stop the fraud
  • Law and order
  • Cut costs and taxes for the middle class
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Marisa Simonetti
Biography
Marisa Simonetti is the independent candidate on the November 3, 2026 ballot for Minnesota's U.S. Senate seat, listed as Independent (no party) on the Minnesota Secretary of State's certified general-election candidate table. The campaign site calls the campaign Marisa for Minnesota, with the message We the People vs. The System, per the campaign site.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Agriculture
  • Education
  • Energy
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Rebecca Whiting
Biography
Rebecca Whiting is the Libertarian Party candidate on the November 3, 2026 ballot for Minnesota's U.S. Senate seat, per the Minnesota Secretary of State's certified general-election candidate table. The campaign site, whiting4senate.us, invites visitors to join the movement to #EndTheWars and #DefundTheGovernment, per the campaign site.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • No more wars
  • No more entangling alliances
  • Bring the troops home
Governor
2 candidates
Statewide ▾
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Amy Klobuchar
DEM
Biography
Klobuchar is a sitting U.S. Senator seeking the Minnesota governorship; she previously served as a county prosecutor and is the granddaughter of an iron-ore miner and the daughter of a newspaperman and a second-grade teacher, per the campaign site.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Lower costs for Minnesotans
  • Make government accountable and root out fraud
  • Prepare Minnesota's workforce for the future
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Lisa Demuth
REP
Biography
Lisa Demuth is speaker of the Minnesota House, a fourth-term state representative from Cold Spring, a former small-business owner and an eleven-year ROCORI school board member, and the Republican nominee for governor. She is the first Black major-party nominee for Minnesota governor.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Taxes and affordability, which her campaign names as her top priority
  • Eliminating fraud in state programs
  • Public safety
Attorney General
2 candidates
Statewide ▾
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Keith Ellison
INCUMBENT
Biography
Ellison is the incumbent Minnesota Attorney General running for re-election, per the campaign site. His office has worked on insulin cost reductions, consumer robocall protections and opioid settlement funds for the state, per the campaign site.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Protect consumers, workers, and civil rights
  • Use the attorney general's office for public-safety and accountability cases
  • Defend reproductive rights and state legal authority
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Ron Schutz
REP
Biography
Ron Schutz is a trial lawyer who was a partner in a national litigation firm and served as its chairman from 2019 to 2024, per his campaign site, and the Republican nominee for Minnesota attorney general.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Fighting fraud
  • Consumer protection
  • Tackling crime and supporting law enforcement
Secretary of State
4 candidates
Statewide ▾
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Steve Simon
INCUMBENT
Biography
Steve Simon is Minnesota's incumbent secretary of state, in office since 2015, and the DFL nominee for another term, unopposed in the August 11 primary. His office oversees elections, business filings, public records, voter information, and civic participation across Minnesota.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Defend democracy and strengthen the freedom to vote
  • Push back against election disinformation
  • Support small businesses and enhance protections for the most vulnerable
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Tad Jude
REP
Biography
Tad Jude is a former district court judge in the 10th Judicial District and a former member of the Minnesota House, Minnesota Senate and Hennepin County Board, and the Republican nominee for secretary of state.
Top Priorities
From other published sources
  • Require photo identification to vote, per his campaign plan
  • Clean up the voter rolls and verify citizenship, per his campaign plan
  • Prevent fraud in public programs, per his campaign plan
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George "Chip" Tangen
Biography
George "Chip" Tangen is a Libertarian candidate for Minnesota secretary of state who qualified for the November 3, 2026 general-election ballot by nominating petition. An attorney raised in Eden Prairie, he previously served as legislative counsel to U.S. Rep. Jim Ramstad in Washington.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Nonpartisan administration of Minnesota elections
  • Ballot access for independent and minor-party candidates
  • Maximizing both voter participation and election security
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Seth Kuhl-Stennes
Biography
Kuhl-Stennes is a Baudette, Minnesota native who has spent 20 years working across cooperatives, for-profit businesses and nonprofits, including seven years in union roles with UFCW Local 663 and OPEIU Local 12, per the campaign site. He holds a political science degree from the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University, per the campaign site.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Expand voting access and ballot access
  • Increase election transparency
  • Support civic participation and community accountability
State Auditor
3 candidates
Statewide ▾
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Zack Filipovich
Biography
Zack Filipovich is a certified management accountant and nonprofit finance manager and a former Duluth city councilor and council president, and the DFL nominee for state auditor, unopposed in the August 11 primary. The seat is open because Julie Blaha announced in September 2025 that she would not seek re-election. His campaign emphasizes local-government oversight, financial accountability, transparency, and support for communities managing public dollars.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Transparency and accountability
  • Strengthening our communities
  • Communicating and building trust
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Scott Jensen
REP
Biography
Jensen is a candidate for Minnesota State Auditor and a family medicine physician with 40 years of practice in Carver County; he previously served in the Minnesota Senate and has served on a bank's board of directors as Audit Committee Chair and on his local school district board, per the campaign site.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Stop fraud
  • Accountability and internal controls
  • Compliance and ongoing audits
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Jay Reeves
Biography
Jay Reeves is a Forward Independence Party candidate for Minnesota state auditor and an Army veteran. His campaign emphasizes independent oversight, public accountability, and non-major-party representation in statewide fiscal review.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Offer independent oversight of public finances
  • Strengthen accountability and transparency
  • Bring military service experience to statewide office

Countywide races in St. Louis County

ZIP 55708 sits in St. Louis County, per the Census crosswalk. These seats are voted countywide; district seats, city races and school boards need a street address. All St. Louis County races (27).

St. Louis County Auditor/Treasurer
1 candidate
County ▾
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Nancy Nilsen
Biography
Nancy Nilsen is the current St. Louis County Auditor/Treasurer and the first woman to hold the office, per the Duluth News Tribune. She holds a bachelor's degree in business administration and an MBA from the University of Minnesota-Duluth, per the same source. No campaign website was found as of September 6, 2026.
Why only one name?
Only one name is on the ballot for this office: no other candidate qualified. An unopposed candidate is elected unless a write-in outpolls them where write-ins are allowed, so this line still counts as a vote.
About this race
Nancy Nilsen is the only candidate on the November 3, 2026 ballot for St. Louis County Auditor/Treasurer, per the Minnesota Secretary of State's candidate filings (Minnesota prints unopposed county races).
St. Louis County Sheriff
1 candidate
County ▾
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Gordon Scott Ramsay
INCUMBENT
Biography
Gordon Ramsay, previously Duluth's police chief, was elected St. Louis County Sheriff in 2022, per the Star Tribune, and filed in May 2026 for a second term citing progress in drug enforcement and employee wellness, per Northern News Now. No campaign website was found as of September 6, 2026.
Why only one name?
Only one name is on the ballot for this office: no other candidate qualified. An unopposed candidate is elected unless a write-in outpolls them where write-ins are allowed, so this line still counts as a vote.
About this race
Gordon Scott Ramsay is the only candidate on the November 3, 2026 ballot for St. Louis County Sheriff, per the Minnesota Secretary of State's candidate filings (Minnesota prints unopposed county races).
St. Louis County Attorney
1 candidate
County ▾
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Kimberly J. Maki
Biography
Kimberly Maki is the St. Louis County Attorney, sworn in September 30, 2021, and seeking a second term in 2026, per Northern News Now. She headed the county's civil division starting in 2012 after joining the County Attorney's Office in 2011, and during her first term revamped the office's juvenile diversion program and expanded community outreach. No campaign website was found as of September 6, 2026.
Top Priorities
From other published sources
  • Prosecuting violent crime and strengthening partnerships with law enforcement, per Northern News Now
  • Reinforcing a victim-centered approach in the office, per Northern News Now
Why only one name?
Only one name is on the ballot for this office: no other candidate qualified. An unopposed candidate is elected unless a write-in outpolls them where write-ins are allowed, so this line still counts as a vote.
About this race
Kimberly J. Maki is the only candidate on the November 3, 2026 ballot for St. Louis County Attorney, per the Minnesota Secretary of State's candidate filings (Minnesota prints unopposed county races).
Judge, Minnesota 6th Judicial District Court, Seat 1
1 candidate
County ▾
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Rachel C. Sullivan
Biography
Rachel C. Sullivan is a judge of the Minnesota 6th Judicial District Court. Appointed Chief Judge of the Sixth Judicial District July 27, 2018, by Governor Mark Dayton and elected in 2020, per the Minnesota Judicial Branch. Previously an attorney at Prebich & Sullivan, P.C. and a law clerk to the Minnesota Court of Appeals; became Chief Judge of the Sixth Judicial District effective July 1, 2026, per the Minnesota Judicial Branch. No campaign website was found as of September 25, 2026.
Why only one name?
Only one name is on the ballot for this office: no other candidate qualified. An unopposed candidate is elected unless a write-in outpolls them where write-ins are allowed, so this line still counts as a vote.
About this race
Rachel C. Sullivan is the only name on the ballot for this seat; Minnesota prints unopposed candidates rather than deeming them elected, so the race is on the November 3, 2026 ballot but is not contested. Minnesota's 6th Judicial District covers Carlton, Cook, Lake and St. Louis counties; judges are elected at large across the whole district, so every voter there, not just voters in one county, votes on this seat. Minnesota judicial elections are nonpartisan and decided by plurality, with no runoff. Listed from the Secretary of State's certified general-election candidate table.
Judge, Minnesota 6th Judicial District Court, Seat 2
1 candidate
County ▾
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Robert C. Friday
Biography
Robert C. Friday is a judge of the Minnesota 6th Judicial District Court. Appointed March 9, 2018, by Governor Mark Dayton and elected in 2020, per the Minnesota Judicial Branch. Previously director of advocacy for Legal Aid Service of Northeastern Minnesota, per the Minnesota Judicial Branch. No campaign website was found as of September 25, 2026.
Why only one name?
Only one name is on the ballot for this office: no other candidate qualified. An unopposed candidate is elected unless a write-in outpolls them where write-ins are allowed, so this line still counts as a vote.
About this race
Robert C. Friday is the only name on the ballot for this seat; Minnesota prints unopposed candidates rather than deeming them elected, so the race is on the November 3, 2026 ballot but is not contested. Minnesota's 6th Judicial District covers Carlton, Cook, Lake and St. Louis counties; judges are elected at large across the whole district, so every voter there, not just voters in one county, votes on this seat. Minnesota judicial elections are nonpartisan and decided by plurality, with no runoff. Listed from the Secretary of State's certified general-election candidate table.
Judge, Minnesota 6th Judicial District Court, Seat 4
1 candidate
County ▾
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Jessica J. Fralich
Biography
Jessica J. Fralich is a judge of the Minnesota 6th Judicial District Court. Appointed Nov. 4, 2024, by Governor Tim Walz, per the Minnesota Judicial Branch. Previously Duluth city attorney, a Sixth Judicial District referee and an assistant St. Louis County attorney, per the Minnesota Judicial Branch. No campaign website was found as of September 25, 2026.
Why only one name?
Only one name is on the ballot for this office: no other candidate qualified. An unopposed candidate is elected unless a write-in outpolls them where write-ins are allowed, so this line still counts as a vote.
About this race
Jessica J. Fralich is the only name on the ballot for this seat; Minnesota prints unopposed candidates rather than deeming them elected, so the race is on the November 3, 2026 ballot but is not contested. Minnesota's 6th Judicial District covers Carlton, Cook, Lake and St. Louis counties; judges are elected at large across the whole district, so every voter there, not just voters in one county, votes on this seat. Minnesota judicial elections are nonpartisan and decided by plurality, with no runoff. Listed from the Secretary of State's certified general-election candidate table.
Judge, Minnesota 6th Judicial District Court, Seat 11
1 candidate
County ▾
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Steven Bradley Hanke
Biography
Steven Bradley Hanke is a judge of the Minnesota 6th Judicial District Court. Appointed to the Lake County District Court December 4, 2023, by Governor Tim Walz, per the Minnesota Judicial Branch. Previously interim and deputy city attorney for the City of Duluth, per the Minnesota Judicial Branch. No campaign website was found as of September 25, 2026.
Why only one name?
Only one name is on the ballot for this office: no other candidate qualified. An unopposed candidate is elected unless a write-in outpolls them where write-ins are allowed, so this line still counts as a vote.
About this race
Steven Bradley Hanke is the only name on the ballot for this seat; Minnesota prints unopposed candidates rather than deeming them elected, so the race is on the November 3, 2026 ballot but is not contested. Minnesota's 6th Judicial District covers Carlton, Cook, Lake and St. Louis counties; judges are elected at large across the whole district, so every voter there, not just voters in one county, votes on this seat. Minnesota judicial elections are nonpartisan and decided by plurality, with no runoff. Listed from the Secretary of State's certified general-election candidate table.
Judge, Minnesota 6th Judicial District Court, Seat 14
1 candidate
County ▾
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Rebekka Lynn Stumme
Biography
Rebekka Lynn Stumme is a judge of the Minnesota 6th Judicial District Court. Appointed to the Carlton County District Court May 31, 2019, by Governor Tim Walz and elected in 2020, per the Minnesota Judicial Branch. Previously an assistant St. Louis County attorney and assistant public defender for the Sixth Judicial District, per the Minnesota Judicial Branch. No campaign website was found as of September 25, 2026.
Why only one name?
Only one name is on the ballot for this office: no other candidate qualified. An unopposed candidate is elected unless a write-in outpolls them where write-ins are allowed, so this line still counts as a vote.
About this race
Rebekka Lynn Stumme is the only name on the ballot for this seat; Minnesota prints unopposed candidates rather than deeming them elected, so the race is on the November 3, 2026 ballot but is not contested. Minnesota's 6th Judicial District covers Carlton, Cook, Lake and St. Louis counties; judges are elected at large across the whole district, so every voter there, not just voters in one county, votes on this seat. Minnesota judicial elections are nonpartisan and decided by plurality, with no runoff. Listed from the Secretary of State's certified general-election candidate table.

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