2013 Minnesota House of Representatives district 14A special election
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A special election was held in the U.S. state of Minnesota on February 12, 2013, to elect a new representative for District 14A in the Minnesota House of Representatives, caused by the resignation of Representative Steve Gottwalt on January 7, 2013. A primary election was not held. The election coincided with the District 19A special election. Tama Theis, the Republican Party of Minnesota nominee, won the special election.
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February 12, 2013
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The District 14A seat in the Minnesota House of Representatives | |||||||||||||||||
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Background
On January 3, 2013, Representative Steve Gottwalt announced that he would resign to take a job as the director of state legislative policy for the Center for Diagnostic Imaging.[1] He resigned on January 7, 2013, the day before the beginning of the new session of the Minnesota Legislature.[2]
Candidates
Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party
Nominee
Declined
- Jerry McCarter, former candidate for the Minnesota Senate[4][5]
Republican Party of Minnesota
Nominee
- Tama Theis (party endorsed), small business owner[4][6]
Withdrawn
Independence Party of Minnesota
Nominee
- Todd McKee, small business owner; part-time truck driver[8]
Results
| Election | Political result | Candidate | Party | Votes | % | ∆pp | ||
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| District 14A special election, 2013[9] Resignation of Steve Gottwalt Voters: 4,898 (−74.29%) |
Republican hold Plurality: 579 (11.82 pp) +3.72 |
Tama Theis | Republican | 2,670 | 54.51 | −5.39 | ||
| Joanne Dorsher | DFL | 2,091 | 42.69 | −3.11 | ||||
| Todd McKee | Independence | 130 | 2.65 | N/A | ||||
| Write-in | N/A | 7 | 0.14 | −0.15 | ||||
Previous election results
| Election | Political result | Candidate | Party | Votes | % | ||
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| Minnesota House of Representatives elections, 2012[10] Redrawn district Voters: 19,051 |
Republican win Plurality: 1,543 (8.10 pp) |
Steve Gottwalt | Republican | 10,269 | 53.90 | ||
| Anne Nolan | DFL | 8,726 | 45.80 | ||||
| Write-in | N/A | 56 | 0.29 | ||||