The 1996 Minnesota United States Senate election was held on November 5, 1996 to select the U.S. Senator from the state of Minnesota. Democratic Senator Paul Wellstone decided to seek re-election. Wellstone defeated former Senator and Republican Rudy Boschwitz and Reform Party candidate and future Senator Dean Barkley in the general election in a rematch of the 1990 Senate election. [1] [edit] Primary elections The primary election was held on September 10, 1996. | 1996 Minnesota U.S. Senate Primary Election (Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party)[2] | | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | | DFL | Paul Wellstone | 194,699 | 86.41% | | | DFL | Richard Franson | 16,465 | 7.31% | | | DFL | Ed Hansen | 9,990 | 4.43% | | | DFL | Oloveuse S. Savior | 4,180 | 1.86% | | | Turnout | 225,334 | | | [edit] Republican
[edit] General election [edit] Candidates [edit] DFL Party [edit] Reform Party [edit] Republican Party [edit] Results | Minnesota United States Senate election, 1996 | | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | | Democratic | Paul Wellstone (inc.) | 1,098,430 | 50.32 | | | Republican | Rudy Boschwitz | 901,194 | 41.28 | | | Reform | Dean Barkley | 152,328 | 6.98 | | | Grassroots | Tim Davis | 14,139 | 0.65 | | | Libertarian | Roy Ezra Carlton | 5,428 | 0.25 | | | Resource Party | Howard Hanson | 4,381 | 0.20 | | | Natural Law | Steve Johnson | 4,321 | 0.20 | | | Socialist Workers | Thomas A. Fiske | 1,554 | 0.07 | | | | Write-In Candidates | 1,130 | 0.05 | | | Majority | 197,236 | 9.04 | | | Turnout | 2,182,905 | | | [edit] References |
