The 2024 United States Senate election in Minnesota was held on November 5, 2024, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the state of Minnesota. Democratic incumbent Amy Klobuchar won a fourth term in office, defeating Republican former basketball player Royce White by a 15.7% margin. Primary elections took place on August 13, 2024. Despite KlobucharâÂÂs comfortable margin of victory, the race marked the weakest performance of her Senate career.
Background
Minnesota is considered to be a slightly to moderately blue state at the federal level. In the 2020 presidential election, Joe Biden carried Minnesota by about seven percentage points. Democrats control both U.S. Senate seats, all statewide executive offices, and both state legislative chambers.
Klobuchar was first elected in 2006, defeating former U.S. Representative Mark Kennedy. She won re-election in 2012 and 2018 by large margins.
This race was considered to be clearly favoring Klobuchar, as she had won all three of her previous Senate elections by more than 20 points and typically over-performs other down-ballot candidates.
DemocraticâÂÂFarmerâÂÂLabor primary
Candidates
Nominee
Eliminated in primary
- Steve Carlson, business consultant and perennial candidate
- Ahmad Hassan, businessman and perennial candidate
- George Kalberer, financial management executive and candidate for in 2022
- Ole Savior, artist and perennial candidate
Endorsements
Fundraising
Results
Klobuchar swept the primary, earning more than 90% of the vote in every county of the state. She recorded her best performance in Pope County, while her worst performance was in Anoka County. There, she came the closest to slipping below 90%, having won 90.00471% of the vote.
Republican primary
Candidates
Nominee
Eliminated in primary
- John Berman, engineer and perennial candidate
- Loner Blue, retiree and convicted felon
- Joe Fraser, banker
- Alycia Gruenhagen, food co-op manager and Democratic candidate for in 2020 and 2022
- Patrick Munro, landscaping company owner and perennial candidate
- Raymond Petersen, truck driver
- Christopher Seymore, teacher and perennial candidate
Declined
- Michelle Benson, former state senator (2011âÂÂ2023) and candidate for governor in 2022
- Paul Gazelka, former Majority Leader of the Minnesota Senate (2017âÂÂ2021) from the 9th district (2011âÂÂ2023) and candidate for governor in 2022
- Walter Hudson, state representative (2023âÂÂpresent)
- Scott Jensen, former state senator (2017âÂÂ2021) and nominee for governor in 2022
- Erik Paulsen, former U.S. representative from (2009âÂÂ2019)
- Kendall Qualls, healthcare technology executive, nominee for in 2020, and candidate for governor in 2022
- Jim Schultz, lawyer and nominee for attorney general in 2022
- Ryan Wilson, medical device research company CEO and nominee for state auditor in 2022
Endorsements
Fundraising
Results
Third-party and independent candidates
Candidates
Declared
General election
Predictions
Polling
Aggregate polls<br />
Amy Klobuchar vs. Joe Fraser<br />
Results
By county
Source
Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican
By congressional district
Klobuchar won five of eight congressional districts, including one that elected a Republican.
Notes
Partisan clients<br />
References
External links
Official campaign websites