Minnesota Democratic Party




This article is about the historical Minnesota Democratic Party. For the modern party, see Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party.




























Minnesota Democratic Party
Founded
1849 (1849)
Dissolved
1944 (1944)
Merged into
Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party
Ideology
Liberalism
National affiliation
Democratic Party
Colors
     Blue


  • Politics of Minnesota

  • Political parties

  • Elections



The Minnesota Democratic Party was a political party in Minnesota that existed from the formation of Minnesota Territory in 1849 until 1944, when the party merged with the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party to form the modern Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party.


In the first two years after Minnesota's admission into the Union in 1858, the Minnesota Democratic Party was briefly the dominant party in the state; however, the 1860 presidential election and the Civil War dealt a devastating blow to the party from which it never really recovered. Between 1860 and 1918, the Minnesota Democratic Party was a distant second party to the dominant Republican Party. During that period, Democrats held the office of Governor of Minnesota for a grand total of seven years, never controlled either chamber of the Minnesota Legislature, and Minnesota never cast a single electoral vote in favor of a Democratic presidential nominee.


Following the establishment of the Farmer-Labor Party in 1918, the Minnesota Democratic Party was relegated to third party status, as the Farmer-Laborites became the primary opposition to the Republicans. During the 1930s, a political alliance between Minnesota Governor Floyd B. Olson and President Franklin D. Roosevelt bred closer cooperation between the Farmer-Laborites and the Democrats. With a large backing from Farmer-Laborites, Roosevelt became the first Democrat ever to win Minnesota's electoral votes in 1932, and went on to win the state in each of his re-election bids. In the 1936 gubernatorial election the Democratic Party opted not to run its own candidate for Governor, endorsing Farmer-Labor candidate Elmer Austin Benson instead.


After the Farmer-Laborites' spectacular fall from power in the 1938 general election, there was increasing pressure from the national Democratic Party for a merger between the Minnesota Democratic Party and the Farmer-Labor Party. In spite of substantial minorities in both parties continuing to oppose merging, the majority in the Farmer-Labor Party led by former-Governor Benson and the slim majority of the Minnesota Democratic Party led by future-Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey ultimately concluded such a merger in 1944, creating the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party.



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Year Nominee Votes Percent Elected Governor

1857
Henry Hastings Sibley
17,790
50.34
Henry Hastings Sibley (D)

1859
George Loomis Becker
 17,582
 45.18
Alexander Ramsey (R)

1861
Edward O. Hamblin
 10,448
 39.1

1863
Henry T. Welles
 12,739
 39.36
Stephen Miller (R)

1865
Henry Mower Rice
 13,842
 44.42
William Rainey Marshall (R)

1867
Charles Eugene Flandrau
 29,502
 45.83

1869
George L. Otis
 25,401
 46.6
Horace Austin (R)

1871
Winthrop Young
 30,376
 38.86

1873
Asa Barton
 35,245
 47.56
Cushman Kellogg Davis (R)

1875
David L. Buell
 35,275
 42.03
John S. Pillsbury (R)

1877
William L. Banning
 39,147
 39.13

1879
Edmund Rice
 41,524
 39.11

1881
Richard W. Johnson
 37,168
 35.21
Lucius Frederick Hubbard (R)

1883
Adolph Biermann
 58,251
 42.95

1886
A. A. Ames
 104,464
 47.36
Andrew Ryan McGill (R)

1888
Eugene McLanahan Wilson
 110,251
 42.14
William Rush Merriam (R)

1890
Thomas Wilson
 85,844
 35.63

1892
Daniel W. Lawler
 94,600
 36.96
Knute Nelson (R)

1894
George Loomis Becker
 53,584
 18.09

1896
John Lind[a]
 162,254
 48.11
David Marston Clough (R)

1898
131,980
52.26
John Lind (P/DSR)

1900
 150,651
 47.95
Samuel Rinnah Van Sant (R)

1902
Leonard A. Rosing
 99,362
 36.68

1904
John Albert Johnson
147,992
48.71
John Albert Johnson (D)

1906
168,480
60.93

1908
175,136
51.93

1910
James Gray
 103,779
 35.23
Adolph Olson Eberhart (R)

1912
Peter M. Ringdahl
 99,659
 31.3

1914
Winfield S. Hammond
156,304
45.54
Winfield S. Hammond (D)

1916
Thomas P. Dwyer
 93,112
 23.84
J. A. A. Burnquist (R)

1918
Fred Wheaton
 76,793
 19.71

1920
Laurence C. Hodgson
 81,293
 10.37
J. A. O. Preus (R)

1922
Edward Indrehus
 79,903
 11.66

1924
Carlos Avery
 49,353
 5.91
Theodore Christianson (R)

1926
Alfred Jacques
 38,008
 5.42

1928
Andrew Nelson
 213,734
 21.38

1930
Edward Indrehus
 29,109
 3.65
Floyd B. Olson (F-L)

1932
John E. Regan
 169,859
 16.44

1934
 176,928
 16.84

1936
No candidate[b]
Elmer Austin Benson (F-L)

1938
Thomas F. Gallagher
 65,875
 5.81
Harold Stassen (R)

1940
Edward Murphy
 140,021
 11.21

1942
John D. Sullivan
 75,151
 9.46




  1. ^ In each of his three appearances on the general election ballot for Governor, John Lind ran at the head of a coalition consisting of the Democratic Party, the Silver Republican Party, and the majority faction of the People's Party, and his party affiliation is listed as "P/DSR" (Populist/Democratic Silver Republican) in the list of Minnesota Governors compiled by the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library.


  2. ^ In 1936, the Democratic Party did not field a gubernatorial nominee, instead opting to support Farmer-Labor nominee Elmer Austin Benson.




See also



  • Democratic Party (United States)

  • Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party

  • Politics of Minnesota

  • Political party strength in Minnesota



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