Minnesota Democratic 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

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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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