2019 Minnesota House of Representatives District 11B special election

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2019 District 11B special election
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  2018 March 19, 2019 (2019-03-19) 2020  

Minnesota House of Representatives
District 11B
 
Nominee Nathan Nelson Tim Burkhardt
Party Republican Democratic (DFL)
Popular vote3,5721,647
Percentage68.43%31.55%

Representative before election

Jason Rarick
Republican

Elected Representative

Nathan Nelson
Republican

A special election was held in the U.S. state of Minnesota on March 19, 2019, to elect a new member for District 11B in the Minnesota House of Representatives, caused by the resignation of Republican Jason Rarick effective on February 12, 2019, after winning a special election to the Minnesota Senate. A primary election was held on March 5, 2019, to nominate a Republican candidate. Nathan Nelson, the Republican nominee, won the special election.

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Background

District 11B includes most of Pine County and the eastern half of Kanabec County in east-central Minnesota. Rarick began representing the district after winning election in 2014, defeating Democratic–Farmer–Labor (DFL) incumbent Tim Faust. In the last election in 2018, Rarick won with 60 percent of the vote.

Candidates

The candidate filing period was from February 15 to February 19, 2019. [1]

Republican Party of Minnesota

District 11B Republican delegates held a convention to endorse a candidate in Mora on February 19, 2019, where Clover Township board supervisor Nathan Nelson won the endorsement. [2] [3] Afterwards, with the exception of Ayrlahn Johnson, all other candidates withdrew from seeking the Republican nomination. [3]

Declared

Withdrawn

Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party

District 11B DFL delegates held a convention to endorse a candidate in Hinckley on February 18, 2019. Hinckley city council member Tim Burkhardt won the endorsement over Oliver Dykstra, who agreed to abide by the endorsement and withdrew his candidacy. [2]

Declared

Withdrawn

  • Oliver Dykstra [2]

Primary election

Results

PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Party of Minnesota Nathan Nelson 2,37188.40
Ayrlahn Johnson31111.60
Subtotal2,682100.00
Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party Tim Burkhardt399100.00
Total3,081100.00
Invalid/blank votes331.06
Turnout (out of 21,515 registered voters) [12] 3,11414.47
Source: Minnesota Secretary of State [13]

Results

PartyCandidateVotes%+/−
Republican Party of Minnesota Nathan Nelson 3,57268.43+8.75
Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party Tim Burkhardt1,64731.55–8.68
Write-ins 10.02–0.07
Total5,220100.00±0.00
Invalid/blank votes60.11–1.55
Turnout (out of 21,505 registered voters) [14] 5,22624.30–44.44
Source: Minnesota Secretary of State [15]

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