Political party strength in North Dakota

The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. state of North Dakota:

• Governor
• Lieutenant Governor
• Secretary of State
• Attorney General
• State Treasurer
• State Auditor
• State Insurance Commissioner
• State Commissioner of Agriculture and Labor/State Agriculture Commissioner/State Labor Commissioner ^[a]
• State Tax Commissioner
• Superintendent of Public Instruction

The table also indicates the historical party composition in the:

• State Senate
• State House of Representatives
• State Public Service Commission
• State delegation to the United States Senate
• State delegation to the United States House of Representatives

For years in which a United States presidential election was held, the table indicates which party's nominees received the state's electoral votes.

1889–1916

Year	Executive offices									State Legislature		RR Com.	United States Congress			Electoral votes
	Governor	Lt. Governor	Sec. of State	Attorney General	Treasurer	Auditor	Ins. Comm.	Ag. & Lab. Comm. [a]	Supt. of Pub. Inst.	Senate	House		Senator (Class I)	Senator (Class III)	House
1889	John Miller (R)	Alfred Dickey (R)	John Flittie (R)	George F. Goodwin (R)	Lewis E. Booker (R)	John P. Bray (R) [b]	A.L. Carey (R)	Henry T. Helgesen (R)	William Mitchell (R) [c]	25R, 6D	58R, 4D	3R	Lyman R. Casey (R)	Gilbert A. Pierce (R)	Henry C. Hansbrough (R)
1890									William J. Clapp (R) [d]
1891	Andrew H. Burke (R)	Roger Allin (R)		Clarence A. M. Spencer (R)					John Ogden (R)	23R, 6D, 2FA	40R, 16D, 6FA			Henry C. Hansbrough (R)	Martin N. Johnson (R)
1892						Archie Currie (R) [d]
1893	Eli C. D. Shortridge (D-I)	Elmer D. Wallace (D-I)	Christian M. Dahl (R)	William H. Standish (D-I)	Knud J. Nomland (D-I)	Arthur W. Porter (D-I)	James Cudhie (D-I)	Nelson Williams (D-I) [e]	Laura J. Eisenhuth (D-I)	19R, 7D, 4Pop, 1Fus	33R, 16D, 13Pop	3D-I	William N. Roach (D)			1 – Weaver/ Field (Pop)N 1 – Cleveland/ Stevenson (D)Y 1 – Harrison/ Reid (R)N
1894
1895	Roger Allin (R)	John H. Worst (R)		John F. Cowan (R)	George E. Nichols (R)	Frank A. Briggs (R)	Frederick B. Fancher (R)	Andrew H. Laughlin (R)	Emma F. Bates (R)	25R, 4Pop, 2D	52R, 6Pop, 2D	3R
1896
1897	Frank A. Briggs (R) [c]	Joseph M. Devine (R)	Fred Falley (R)			Nathan B. Hannum (R)		Henry U. Thomas (R)	John G. Halland (R)	24R, 4Fus, 3D	44R, 18Fus					McKinley/ Hobart (R)Y
1898	Joseph M. Devine (R) [f]	vacant
1899	Frederick B. Fancher (R)	Joseph M. Devine (R)			Dennis W. Driscoll (R)	Albert N. Carlblom (R)	George W. Harrison (R)			22R, 9Fus	55R, 5Fus, 2D		Porter J. McCumber (R)		Burleigh F. Spalding (R)
1900
1901	Frank White (R)	David Bartlett (R)	Edward F. Porter (R)	Oliver D. Comstock (R)	Donald H. McMillan (R)		Ferdinand Leutz (R)	Rollin J. Turner (R)	Joseph M. Devine (R)	24R, 7Fus	56R, 5Fus, 1?				Thomas F. Marshall (R)	McKinley/ Roosevelt (R)Y
1902
1903				Carl N. Frich (R)		Herbert L. Holmes (R)			Walter L. Stockwell (R)	30R, 7D, 3Fus	86R, 11D, 2Fus, 1I				2R
1904
1905	Elmore Y. Sarles (R)				Albert Peterson (R)		Ernest C. Cooper (R)	William C. Gilbreath (R)		33R, 6D, 1I	99R, 1D					Roosevelt/ Fairbanks (R)Y
1906
1907	John Burke (D)	Robert S. Lewis (R)	Alfred Blaisdell (R)	Thomas F. McCue (R)						33R, 7D	87R, 12D, 1I
1908
1909				Andrew Miller (R)	George L. Bickford (R)	David K. Brightbill (R)				38R, 8D, 1I	92R, 8D			Martin N. Johnson (R) [c]		Taft/ Sherman (R)Y
														Fountain L. Thompson (D) [d] [b]
1910														William E. Purcell (D) [d]
1911		Usher L. Burdick (R)	Patrick Norton (R)		Gunder Olson (R)		Walter C. Taylor (R)		Edwin J. Taylor (R)	44R, 4D, 1I	90R, 12D, 1S			Asle Gronna (R)
1912
1913	L. B. Hanna (R)	Anton Kraabel (R)	Thomas Hall (R)			Carl O. Jorgenson (R)				43R, 6D	102R, 8D				3R	Wilson/ Marshall (D)Y
1914
1915		John H. Fraine (R)		Henry Linde (R)	John Steen (R)			Robert F. Flint (R)		44R, 5D	106R, 6D
1916

1917–2000

Year	Executive offices											State Legislature		Pub. Ser. Com. [g]	United States Congress			Electoral votes
	Governor	Lt. Governor	Sec. of State	Attorney General	Treasurer	Auditor	Ins. Comm.	Ag. Comm. [a]	Labor Comm. [a]	Tax Comm.	Supt. of Pub. Inst.	Senate	House		Senator (Class I)	Senator (Class III)	House
1917	Lynn Frazier (R-NPL) [h]	Anton Kraabel (R)	Thomas Hall (R-NPL)	Bill Langer (R-NPL)	John Steen (R)	Carl R. Kositzky (R-NPL)	Sveinung A. Olsness (R-NPL)	John N. Hagan (R-NPL) [h]		No such office [i]	Neil C. MacDonald (NP/R-NPL)	43R, 6D	97R, 17D	3R	Porter J. McCumber (R)	Asle Gronna (R)	3R	Wilson/ Marshall (D)Y
1918
1919		Howard R. Wood (R-NPL)			Obert A. Olson (R-NPL)					George E. Wallace (R-NPL) [j]	Minnie J. Nielson (NP/R-IVA)	43R, 6D (35NPL, 14IVA)	99R, 14D (81NPL, 32IVA)
1920
1921				William Lemke (R-NPL) [h]	John Steen (R)	David C. Poindexter (R-NPL)						49R (25NPL, 24IVA)	113R (59IVA, 54NPL)			Edwin F. Ladd (R-NPL) [c]		Harding/ Coolidge (R)Y
	Ragnvald Nestos (R-IVA)			Sveinbjorn Johnson (R-IVA)				Joseph A. Kitchen (R-IVA)
1922										C. C. Converse (R) [j]
1923		Frank H. Hyland (R)		George F. Shafer (R-IVA)								49R (26IVA, 23NPL)	113R (57IVA, 56NPL)		Lynn Frazier (R-NPL)
1924
1925	Arthur Sorlie (R-NPL) [c]	Walter Maddock (R-NPL)	Robert Byrne (R)		Chessmur A. Fischer (R)	John Steen (R)				Thorstein H. H. Thoresen (R-NPL) [j]		46R, 3D (25IVA, 24NPL)	106R, 7D (63NPL, 50IVA)			Gerald Nye (NPL) [k]		Coolidge/ Dawes (R)Y
1926
1927											Bertha R. Palmer (NP)	49R (25IVA, 24NPL)	113R (60IVA, 53NPL)			Gerald Nye (R-NPL)
1928	Walter Maddock (R-NPL) [f]	vacant
1929	George F. Shafer (R-IVA)	John W. Carr (R)		James Morris (R)	Berta E. Baker (R)					Iver A. Acker (R) [j]		48R, 1D (26NPL, 23IVA)	112R, 1D (65IVA, 48NPL)					Hoover/ Curtis (R)Y
1930
1931												47R, 2D (27IVA, 22NPL)	112R, 1D (58IVA, 55NPL)
1932
1933	Bill Langer (R-NPL) [l]	Ole H. Olson (R-NPL)		Arthur J. Gronna (R-NPL) [d]	Alfred S. Dale (R-NPL)			John Husby (R)		Frank A. Vogel (R-NPL) [j]	Arthur E. Thompson (NP) [d]	44R, 5D (R-NPL maj.)	103R, 10D (R-NPL maj.)				1R, 1R-NPL	Roosevelt/ Garner (D)Y
				Peter O. Sathre (R-NPL) [k] [m]						J. J. Weeks (R-NPL) [j]
1934	Ole H. Olson (R-NPL) [n]	vacant
1935	Thomas Moodie (D) [o]	Walter Welford (R-NPL)	James D. Gronna (R-NPL)		John Gray (R)	Berta E. Baker (R-NPL)	Harold Hopton (R-NPL)	Theodore Martell (R-NPL)				42R, 7D (R-NPL maj.)	83R, 30D (R-NPL maj.)
	Walter Welford (R-NPL) [n]	vacant								Lee Nichols (R) [j]
1936
1937	Bill Langer (R-NPL)	Thorstein H. H. Thoresen (R-NPL)		Alvin C. Strutz (R-NPL) [k]			Oscar E. Erickson (R-NPL) [d]	John N. Hagan (R-NPL)		J. K. Murray (R-NPL) [j]		34R, 14D, 1I (R-NPL maj.)	87R, 26D (R-NPL maj.)
										O. T. Owen (R-NPL) [j]
1938										C. P. Stone (R-NPL) [j]
1939	John Moses (D)	Jack Patterson (R-NPL)			John Omland (R-NPL)			Math Dahl (R-NPL)		W. T. DePuy (D) [j]		39R, 10D (R-NPL maj.)	106R, 7D (R-NPL maj.)
										Lee Nichols (R) [j]
										John Gray (D) [p]
1940
1941		Oscar W. Hagen (R-NPL)	Herman Thorson (R)		Carl Anderson (R)					John Gray (NP) [p] [d]		44R, 5D (R-IVA maj.)	103R, 10D (R-IVA maj.)		Bill Langer (R-NPL) [d]		2R	Willkie/ McNary (R)N
1942
1943		Henry Holt (D)	Thomas Hall (R)									45R, 4D (R-IVA maj.)	106R, 7D (R-IVA maj.)				1R, 1R-NPL
1944
1945	Fred G. Aandahl (R)	Clarence P. Dahl (R)		Nels Johnson (R) [d]	Otto Krueger (R) [q]							46R, 3D (R-ROC maj.)	109R, 4D (R-ROC maj.)			John Moses (D) [c]		Dewey/ Bricker (R)N
					Hjalmer W. Swenson (R) [k]		Otto Krueger (R) [k]									Milton Young (R) [k]
1946											Garfield B. Nordrum (NP) [k] [d]
1947													111R, 2D (R-ROC maj.)
1948				Peter O. Sathre (R) [d]
1949					Albert Jacobson (R)							47R, 2D (R-ROC maj.)						Dewey/ Warren (R)N
1950
1951	Norman Brunsdale (R)	Ray Schnell (R)		Elmo T. Christianson (R) [r]			Alfred J. Jensen (R)				Marvell F. Peterson (NP) [k]		112R, 1D (R-ROC maj.)				2R
1952										Burtis B. Conyne (NP) [d]
1953		Clarence P. Dahl (R)			Ray Thompson (R)					J. Arthur Engen (NP) [d]		47R, 2D (R-NPL maj.)						Eisenhower/ Nixon (R)Y
1954				Paul Benson (R) [d]
1955			Ben Meier (R)	Leslie R. Burgum (R)	Albert Jacobson (R) [d]							46R, 3D (R-NPL maj.)	111R, 2D (R-ROC maj.)
1956
1957	John E. Davis (R)	Francis Clyde Duffy (R)				Curtis G. Olson (R)		Math Dahl (R)				40R, 9D-NPL	94R, 19D-NPL
1958					Mike J. Baumgartner (R) [d]
1959		Clarence P. Dahl (R)			John R. Erickson (R)							34R, 15D-NPL	65R, 48D-NPL		Norman Brunsdale (R) [d]		1R, 1D-NPL
1960															Quentin Burdick (D-NPL) [d]
1961	William L. Guy (D-NPL)	Orville W. Hagen (R)										28R, 21D-NPL	70R, 41D-NPL	2R, 1D-NPL			2R	Nixon/ Lodge (R)N
1962
1963		Frank A. Wenstrom (R)		Helgi Johanneson (R)	Phil Hoghaug (R)		Frank Albers (R)			Lloyd Omdahl (NP/D-NPL) [k]		37R, 12D-NPL	70R, 43D-NPL
1964
1965		Charles Tighe (D-NPL)			Walter Christensen (D-NPL)		Karsten O. Nygaard (R)	Arne Dahl (R)				29R, 20D	65D-NPL, 44R				1R, 1D-NPL	Johnson/ Humphrey (D)Y
1966										Edwin O. Sjaasstad (NP) [k] [d]
1967								Arne Dahl (R) [c]	Orville W. Hagen (NP/R)			44R, 5D-NPL	83R, 15D-NPL				2R
1968
1969		Richard F. Larsen (R)			Bernice Asbridge (R)		Jorris O. Wigen (R)			Byron Dorgan (NP/D-NPL) [k]		43R, 6D-NPL	80R, 18D-NPL					Nixon/ Agnew (R)Y
1970
1971												37R, 12D-NPL	58R, 40D-NPL				1R, 1D-NPL
1972
1973	Arthur A. Link (D-NPL)	Wayne Sanstead (D-NPL)		Allen I. Olson (R)	Walter Christensen (D-NPL) [d]	Robert W. Peterson (R)						40R, 11D-NPL	76R, 26D-NPL				Mark Andrews (R)
1974								Myron Just (D-NPL) [k]
1975												34R, 17D-NPL	62R, 40D-NPL
1976
1977							Byron Knutson (D-NPL)				Howard Snortland (NP)	32R, 18D-NPL	50R, 50D-NPL [s]					Ford/ Dole (R)N
1978
1979					Robert E. Hanson (D-NPL) [d]							35R, 15D-NPL	71R, 29D-NPL
1980
1981	Allen I. Olson (R)	Ernest Sands (R)		Robert Wefald (R)	John S. Lesmeister (R)		Jorris O. Wigen (R)	H. Kent Jones (R)		Kent Conrad (NP/D-NPL) [t]	Joseph Crawford (NP)	40R, 10D-NPL	73R, 27D-NPL			Mark Andrews (R)	Byron Dorgan (D-NPL)	Reagan/ Bush (R)Y
1982
1983												32R, 21D-NPL	55D-NPL, 51R
1984
1985	George A. Sinner (D-NPL)	Ruth Meiers (D-NPL) [d]		Nicholas Spaeth (D-NPL)	Robert E. Hanson (D-NPL)		Earl Pomeroy (D-NPL)				Wayne Sanstead (NP/D-NPL)	29R, 24D-NPL	65R, 41D-NPL
1986										Heidi Heitkamp (D-NPL) [k]
1987		Lloyd Omdahl (D-NPL) [d]							Byron Knutson (NP/D-NPL)			27D-NPL, 26R	61R, 45D-NPL			Kent Conrad (D-NPL) [u]
1988
1989			Jim Kusler (D-NPL)					Sarah Vogel (D-NPL)				32D-NPL, 21R						Bush/ Quayle (R)Y
1990
1991									Craig Hagen (NP) [d]			27D-NPL, 26R	58R, 48D-NPL
1992															Jocelyn Burdick (D-NPL) [d]
															Kent Conrad (D-NPL)	Byron Dorgan (D-NPL) [v]
1993	Ed Schafer (R)	Rosemarie Myrdal (R)	Alvin Jaeger (R)	Heidi Heitkamp (D-NPL)	Kathi Gilmore (D-NPL)		Glenn Pomeroy (D-NPL)			Robert E. Hanson (D-NPL)		25D-NPL, 24R	65R, 33D-NPL				Earl Pomeroy (D-NPL)	Bush/ Quayle (R)N
1994
1995												29R, 20D-NPL	75R, 23D-NPL
1996
1997						Bob Peterson (R)		Roger Johnson (D-NPL)		Rick Clayburgh (R)		30R, 19D-NPL	72R, 26D-NPL					Dole/ Kemp (R)N
1998
1999									appointed			31R, 18D-NPL	64R, 34D-NPL
2000

2001–present

Year	Executive offices										State Legislature		Pub. Ser. Com.	United States Congress			Electoral votes
	Governor	Lt. Governor	Sec. of State	Attorney General	Treasurer	Auditor	Ins. Comm.	Ag. Comm.	Tax Comm.	Supt. of Pub. Inst.	Senate	House		Senator (Class I)	Senator (Class III)	House
2001	John Hoeven (R) [t]	Jack Dalrymple (R)	Alvin Jaeger (R) [w]	Wayne Stenehjem (R) [c]	Kathi Gilmore (D-NPL)	Bob Peterson (R)	Jim Poolman (R) [b]	Roger Johnson (D-NPL) [b]	Rick Clayburgh (R) [b]	Wayne Sanstead (NP/D-NPL)	32R, 17D-NPL	69R, 29D-NPL	3R	Kent Conrad (D-NPL)	Byron Dorgan (D-NPL)	Earl Pomeroy (D-NPL)	Bush/ Cheney (R)Y
2002
2003											31R, 16D-NPL	66R, 28D-NPL
2004
2005					Kelly Schmidt (R)						32R, 15D-NPL	67R, 27D-NPL
									Cory Fong (R) [k]
2006
2007											26R, 21D-NPL	61R, 33D-NPL
							Adam Hamm (R) [k]
2008																	McCain/ Palin (R)N
2009								Doug Goehring (R) [k]				58R, 36D-NPL
2010
2011	Jack Dalrymple (R) [x]	Drew Wrigley (R) [d]									35R, 12D-NPL	69R, 25D-NPL			John Hoeven (R)	Rick Berg (R)
2012																	Romney/ Ryan (R)N
2013										Kirsten Baesler (NP/R)	33R, 14D-NPL	71R, 23D-NPL		Heidi Heitkamp (D-NPL)		Kevin Cramer (R)
2014									Ryan Rauschen­berger (R) [b]
2015											32R, 15D-NPL
2016																	Trump/ Pence (R)Y
2017	Doug Burgum (R)	Brent Sanford (R) [b]				Josh Gallion (R)	Jon Godfread (R)				38R, 9D-NPL	81R, 13D-NPL
2018
2019											37R, 10D-NPL	79R, 15D-NPL		Kevin Cramer (R)		Kelly Armstrong (R)
2020																	Trump/ Pence (R)N
2021					Thomas Beadle (R)						40R, 7D-NPL	80R, 14D-NPL
2022				Drew Wrigley (R) [d]					Brian Kroshus (R) [d]
2023		Tammy Miller (R)	Michael Howe (R)								43R, 4D-NPL	82R, 12D-NPL
2024	Trump/ Vance (R)Y
2025		Kelly Armstrong (R)	Michelle Strinden (R)	42R, 5D-NPL	83R, 11D-NPL	Julie Fedorchak (R)

Key to party colors and abbreviations for members of the U.S. Congress and other politicians or officials

Alaskan Independence (AKIP) Know Nothing (KN) American Labor (AL) Anti-Jacksonian (Anti-J) National Republican (NR) Anti-Administration (AA) Anti-Masonic (Anti-M) Conservative (Con) Covenant (Cov)

Democratic (D) Democratic–Farmer–Labor (DFL) Democratic–NPL (D-NPL) Dixiecrat (Dix), States' Rights (SR) Democratic-Republican (DR) Farmer–Labor (FL) Federalist (F) Pro-Administration (PA)

Free Soil (FS) Fusion (Fus) Greenback (GB) Independence (IPM) Independent Democrat (ID) Independent Republican (IR) Jacksonian (J) Liberal (Lib)

Libertarian (L) National Union (NU) Nonpartisan League (NPL) Nullifier (N) Opposition Northern (O) Opposition Southern (O) Populist (Pop) Progressive (Prog)

Prohibition (Proh) Readjuster (Rea) Republican (R) Silver (Sv) Silver Republican (SvR) Socialist (Soc) Union (U) Unconditional Union (UU)

Vermont Progressive (VP) Whig (W) Independent (I) Nonpartisan (NP)

1. The Commissioner of Agriculture and Labor was an elected official who headed the state Department of Agriculture and Labor. The office was established by the state constitution in 1889 but was split into two separate offices—the Commissioner of Labor and the Commissioner of Agriculture—in 1966, when the two departments also split due to a constitutional change approved by the electorate in 1964.
2. Resigned.
3. Died in office.
4. Appointed by governor to fill a vacancy.
5. George E. Adams won the 1892 election but did not qualify for the office; Williams was appointed to the position instead.
6. Succeeded to office following death or resignation of previous officeholder.
7. Named North Dakota Railroad Commission until 1940.
8. Recalled.
9. Office established in 1919.
10. The office was an appointed position from 1919 until 1940. Partisan affiliation given is that of corresponding Governor.
11. Appointed by governor to fill vacancy. Later elected to office in their own right.
12. Removed from office by the North Dakota Supreme Court following a felony conviction to defraud the federal government.
13. Resigned following appointment to North Dakota Supreme Court.
14. Declared governor by North Dakota Supreme Court.
15. After Moodie's inauguration on January 7, 1935, it was revealed that he had voted in a 1932 municipal election in Minnesota. In order to be eligible to serve as governor of North Dakota, an individual has to have lived in the state for five consecutive years before the election. The North Dakota Supreme Court determined that Moodie was ineligible to serve, and he was removed from office on February 16, 1935.
16. Was a first appointed by a Democratic governor, although beginning in 1940 he ran on a nonpartisan ballot.
17. Resigned to become North Dakota Insurance Commissioner.
18. Removed from office following conviction on federal gambling conspiracy charges.
19. With the 50-50 chamber, the Democrats and Republicans negotiated a power-sharing agreement. The Democrats got the position of Speaker under Oscar Solberg, and the Republicans got control of the Appropriations Committee, and the rest of the committees were 50-50 in membership and control. ^{[1] [2]}
20. Resigned to take an elected seat as U.S. Senator.
21. Resigned following election to Class I U.S. Senate seat.
22. Appointed by governor to fill vacancy, having already been elected to next term.
23. Elected as an independent in the 2018 Secretary of State election, but continued to identify as a Republican.
24. Succeeded to office following death or resignation of previous officeholder. Later elected to office in their own right.

References

1. p.358
2. Loepp, Daniel (c. 1999). Sharing the balance of power: an examination of shared power in the Michigan House of Representatives, 1993-94. Ann Arbor. hdl:2027/mdp.39015050183881.

See also

• Elections in North Dakota
• Politics of North Dakota
• List of political parties in North Dakota