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2020 North Dakota Senate election

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2020 North Dakota Senate election
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23 of the 47 seats in the North Dakota Senate
24 seats needed for a majority
Turnout62.69%[1]
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Rich Wardner Joan Heckaman
Party Republican Democratic–NPL
Leader's seat 37th district 23rd district
Seats before 37 10
Seats won 40 7
Seat change Increase 3 Decrease 3
Popular vote 122,164 43,836
Percentage 73.10% 26.23%
Results of the elections:
     Republican gain
     Democratic hold      Republican hold
     No election

The 2020 North Dakota Senate election was held on November 3, 2020, to elect members from all even-numbered seats of the North Dakota Senate. Primary elections were held on June 9, 2020.[2]

Republicans

  1. District 22: Gary Lee retired.
  2. District 34: Dwight Cook retired.

Incumbents defeated

In the general election

Democrats

  1. District 12: John Grabinger lost re-election to Cole Conley.
  2. District 24: Larry Robinson lost re-election to Michael Wobbema.
  3. District 26: Jim Dotzenrod lost re-election to Jason Heitkamp.

Predictions

Source Ranking As of
The Cook Political Report[3] Safe R October 21, 2020

Close races

Districts where the margin of victory was under 10%:

  1. District 24, 1.95% (gain)
  2. District 16, 4.46%
  3. District 26, 5.76% (gain)
  4. District 42, 6.9%
  5. District 18, 7.69%
  6. District 46, 8.2%
  7. District 44, 8.52%

Election results

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