The Nonpartisan League (NPL) was a left-wing political party founded in 1915 in North Dakota by Arthur C. Townley,a former organizer for the Socialist Party of America. On behalf of small farmers and merchants,the Nonpartisan League advocated state control of mills,grain elevators,banks and other farm-related industries in order to reduce the power of corporate and political interests from Minneapolis and Chicago.
John Henry Hoeven III is an American banker and politician serving as the senior U.S. senator from North Dakota,a seat he has held since 2011. A member of the Republican Party,Hoeven served as the 31st governor of North Dakota from 2000 to 2010.
The North Dakota Democratic–Nonpartisan League Party is the North Dakota affiliate of the national Democratic Party. It was formed as the outcome of a merger of two parties;the state previously had a three-party political system. It is one of only two state Democratic Party affiliates to have a different name from the central party,the other being the neighboring Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party. The party controls no North Dakota federal or statewide elected offices as of 2023.
William "Wild Bill" Langer was a prominent American lawyer and politician from North Dakota,where he was an infamous character,bouncing back from a scandal that forced him out of the governor's office and into multiple trials. He was the 17th and 21st governor of North Dakota from 1932 to 1934 and from 1937 to 1939.
Quentin Northrup Burdick was an American lawyer and politician. A member of the North Dakota Democratic-NPL Party,he represented North Dakota in the U.S. House of Representatives (1959–1960) and the U.S. Senate (1960–1992). At the time of his death,he was the third longest-serving senator among current members of the Senate.
David Paul Maskinbak O'Connell is a North Dakota Democratic-NPL Party politician who represented the 6th district in the North Dakota Legislative Assembly from 1983 to 2016. He served as North Dakota Senate Minority Leader from 1989 to 2011,eventually stepping down from party leadership to spend more time with his wife,who was having health problems at the time. Before serving in the Senate,he was a member of the North Dakota House of Representatives from 1983 through 1988.
The politics of North Dakota were shaped historically by early settlement by people from the Northern Tier,who carried their politics west ultimately from New England,upstate New York,and the Upper Midwest. The area and state also received numerous European immigrants and migrants,particularly during the era of opening up of former Native American lands for sale and settlement.
Tom Fiebiger is a North Dakota Democratic-NPL Party politician who served as a member of the North Dakota Senate from District 45 from 2006 to 2010.
Joan Heckaman is a former North Dakota Democratic-NPL Party member of the North Dakota Senate,representing the 23rd district. She served as Senate Minority Leader between 2016-2022.
John M. Warner is a North Dakota Democratic-NPL Party member of the North Dakota Senate,representing the 4th district since 2004. He was previously a member of the North Dakota House of Representatives from 1997 through 2003.
Richard Marcellais is a former North Dakota Democratic-NPL Party member of the North Dakota Senate,representing the 9th district.
James Pomeroy was an American pastor in the United Methodist Church who served as a North Dakota Democratic-NPL Party member of the North Dakota Senate,representing the 27th district.
Carolyn Nelson is a North Dakota Democratic-NPL Party member of the North Dakota Senate,representing the 21st district since 1994. She currently serves as Assistant Minority Leader. She was previously a member of the North Dakota House of Representatives,representing the 45th District from 1986 through 1988,and the 21st District from 1992 through 1994.
Ryan M. Taylor is an American politician. A member of the Democratic-NPL Party,he served as the North Dakota State Senator from the 7th district from 2003 to 2013. Taylor spent his final two years as minority leader. He left the North Dakota Senate to run for the governorship,but was defeated by incumbent Republican Jack Dalrymple in the general election.
Steve Zaiser is a North Dakota Democratic-NPL Party member of the North Dakota House of Representatives,representing the 21st district since 2003.
The 2010 United States Senate election in North Dakota took place on November 2,2010,alongside other elections to the United States Senate in other states as well as elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. Incumbent Democratic-NPL U.S. senator Byron Dorgan announced in January 2010 that he would not seek reelection,leading to the first open seat election since 1992. Republican governor John Hoeven won the seat in a landslide,taking 76.1% of the vote,sweeping every county in the state,and becoming North Dakota's first Republican senator since 1987. Hoeven's 54 point margin of victory was a dramatic and historic shift from the previous election for this seat,when Dorgan won reelection in a 36 point landslide and himself swept every county in the state.
McLain Joseph Schneider is an American attorney and politician who has served as the United States attorney for the District of North Dakota since December 2022. He previously represented the 42nd district in the North Dakota Senate from 2009 until his reelection defeat in 2016. A member of the North Dakota Democratic-NPL Party,he served as the Senate Minority Leader from 2013 until the end of his Senate tenure. He was the Democratic-NPL endorsed candidate for the 2018 United States House of Representatives election in North Dakota.
George Brevard Sinner is an American politician and member of the North Dakota Democratic-Nonpartisan League Party who served as a member of the North Dakota Senate,representing the 46th district from 2013 to 2017. Sinner is the son of former Governor George A. Sinner and was the D-NPL nominee for North Dakota's at-large congressional district in the 2014 election.
Kylie Oversen is an American politician in the Democratic-NPL. She served as a member of the North Dakota House of Representatives,representing the 42nd district from January 2013 to December 2016. The 42nd district is located in the northern portion of Grand Forks and includes the University of North Dakota.
The 2022 United States Senate election in North Dakota was held on November 8,2022,to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the state of North Dakota. Incumbent Republican John Hoeven was first elected in 2010 with 76% of the vote to succeed retiring Democratic–NPL incumbent Byron Dorgan,and won re-election in 2016 with 78.5% of the vote. He ran for a re-election to a third term in office against Democratic-NPL nominee Katrina Christiansen.
