Minnesota Senate, District 67

Minnesota Senate, District 67, encompasses portions of Ramsey County.^[1] It has formerly included Kittson, Marshall, Roseau, Pennington, and Dakota counties. The district is currently served by Democratic-Farmer-Labor Senator Foung Hawj.^[2]

Minnesota's 67th State Senate district
Senator	Foung Hawj DFL–Saint Paul since January 8, 2013
Demographics	44.4% White 22.1% Black 11.1% Hispanic 33.7% Asian 2.1% Native American 0.1% Hawaiian/Pacific Islander 4.6% Other
Population (2020)  • Voting age	88,060 52,435

List of senators

Session	Senator	Party	Term start	Term end	Home	Counties represented
39th	Nels S. Hegnes[3]	Nonpartisan Election	January 5, 1915	January 1, 1923	Argyle	Kittson Marshall Roseau
40th
41st
42nd
43rd	A.M. Landby[4]	Nonpartisan Election-Liberal Caucus	January 2, 1923	January 5, 1931	Swift
44th
45th
46th
47th	William L. Petersen[5]	Nonpartisan Election	January 6, 1931	January 7, 1935	Lancaster
48th
49th	Richard Rice[6]		January 8, 1935	January 2, 1939	Alvarado
50th
51st	Eric Friberg[7]		January 3, 1939	January 6, 1947	Roseau
52nd
53rd
54th
55th	Donald Sinclair[8]	Nonpartisan Election - Conservative Caucus	January 7, 1947	January 1, 1973	Stephen
56th
57th
58th
59th
60th
61st
62nd
63rd
64th
65th						Kittson Marshall Pennington Roseau
66th
67th
68th	William McCutcheon[9]		January 2, 1973	May 1, 1980	Saint Paul	Dakota Ramsey
69th		Nonpartisan Election - Democratic-Farmer-Labor Caucus
70th		Democratic-Farmer-Labor
71st
72nd	Marilyn Lantry[10]		January 6, 1981	January 7, 1991
73rd
74th
75th
76th
77th	Randy Cameron Kelly[11]		January 8, 1991	January 2, 2002		Ramsey
78th
79th
80th
81st
82nd
83rd	Mee Moua[12]		February 4, 2002	January 3, 2011
84th
85th
86th
87th	John M. Harrington[13]		January 4, 2011	September 3, 2012
88th	Foung Hawj[14]		January 8, 2013	Current
89th
90th
91st
92nd
93rd

Recent elections

2016

The candidate filing deadline was May 31, 2016. The primary election took place on August 9, 2016; both incumbent Foung Hawj and Krysia Weidell ran unopposed.^[15][16] The general election was held on November 8, 2016, resulting in Hwaj's victory.^[17][18]

Minnesota State Senate election, 2008

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic (DFL)	Foung Hawj	21,696	75.37
	Republican	Krysia Weidell	7,091	24.63
Total votes			28,787	100.0
	hold

2012

Elections for the Minnesota State Senate occurred after state-wide redistricting from 2010. The signature-filing deadline for candidates wishing to run in this election was June 5, 2012. Foung Hawj defeated Tom Dimon and Robert Humphrey in the Democratic primary, and defeated Mike Capistrant in the general election.^[19][20]

Minnesota State Senate election, 2008

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic (DFL)	Foung Hawj	21,630	72.8
	Republican	Mike Capistrant	8,094	27.2
Total votes			29,724	100.0
	hold