Minnesota Senate, District 37

The Minnesota Senate, District 37, encompasses portions of Anoka County in the northern Twin Cities metropolitan area.[1] It has formerly included Brown, Lac Qui Parle, Lyon, Redwood, Yellow Medicine, Chippewa, Swift, Carver, Ramsey, Hennepin, Dakota, Washington, Goodhue, and Scott counties; and served Ramsey County for the longest. The district is currently served by Democratic-Farmer-Labor Senator Jerry Newton.

Minnesota's 37th State Senate district
Population (2016)  • Voting age  • Citizen voting age	83,278 62,858 59,882
Demographics	83.1% White 4.8% Black 3.9% Latino 6.9% Asian 0.6% Native American 0.1% Hawaiian/Pacific Islander 1.2% other 3.4% remainder of multiracial

District Profile

The district stretches along the southern edge of Anoka County from the Ramsey County and Hennepin County borders, excluding the cities of Fridely, Hilltop, and Columbia Heights.[2]

Due to redistricting, the 37th district has been moved around various counties in the southern part of the state. The current iteration resulted from the 2010 redistricting by the Minnesota State Legislature, which became effective in 2012.[3]

2010

Part of Anoka County Blaine Coon Rapids Spring Lake Park

As of 2016, the population of the 37th district was split 49.1% male and 50.9% female, with 48.2% of men and 51.8% of women being eligible to vote.[4] 93.9% of residents were at least a high school graduate (or equivalent), and 30.5% had earned a bachelor's degree or higher. 31.8% of the population is of German ancestry, the largest ethic group in the district, followed by Norwegian descent at 13.5%.[5] The unemployment rate was at 4.8%.[6]

Race	Population (2016 est.)	Share of total population
Total	83,278	100%
One race	80,469	96.6%
White	69,174	83.1%
Black or African American	3,962	4.8%
American Indian and Alaska Native	493	0.6%
Asian	5,769	6.9%
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander	44	0.1%
Other races	1,027	1.2%
Two or more races	2,809	3.4%
White and Black or African American	994	1.2%
White and American Indian and Alaska Native	499	0.6%
White and Asian	804	1%
Black or African American and American Indian and Alaska Native	9	0.0%

Ancestry	Population (2016 est.)	Share of total population
Total	83,278	100%
German	26,513	31.8%
Norwegian	11,205	13.5%
Irish	8,799	10.6%
Swedish	7,139	8.6%
Polish	5,606	6.7%
English	4,080	4.9%
French (except Basque)	3,169	3.8%
American	3,066	3.7%
Italian	2,162	2.6%
Subsaharan African	1,947	2.3%
Czech	1,582	1.9%
Scottish	1,186	1.4%
French Canadian	1,132	1.4%
Arab	1,005	1.2%
Danish	885	1.1%
Russian	790	0.9%
Ukrainian	486	0.6%
Swiss	419	0.5%
Scotch-Irish	340	0.4%
Welsh	262	0.3%
Greek	212	0.3%
Hungarian	203	0.2%
Slovak	154	0.2%
Lithuanian	74	0.1%
Portuguese	56	0.1%
West Indian (excluding Hispanic origin groups)	29	0.0%

List of Senators

Session	Senator	Party	Term Start	Term End	Home	Counties Represented
14th	William Pfaender Sr.[7]	Republican	January 2, 1872	January 6, 1873	New Ulm	Brown Lac Qui Parle Lyon Redwood Yellow Medicine
15th	J.S.G. Honner[8]		January 7, 1873	January 4, 1875	Redwood Falls
16th
17th	John Winslow Blake[9]		January 5, 1875	January 1, 1877	Marshall
18th
19th	Shadrach Azariah Hall[10]		January 2, 1877	January 6, 1879	Yellow Medicine City
20th					Minnesota Falls
21st	Knud H. Helling[11]		January 7, 1879	January 3, 1881	Madelia
22nd	Samuel D. Peterson[12]		January 4, 1881	January 1, 1883	New Ulm
23rd	Ziba B. Clarke[13]		January 2, 1883	January 3, 1887	Benson	Chippewa Lac Qui Parle Swift
24th
25th	Hiram Eugene Hoard[14]	Republican	January 4, 1887	January 5, 1891	Montevideo
26th
27th	Joseph W. Craven[15]	Democratic	January 6, 1891	January 7, 1895	Norwood	Carver
28th
29th	Frederic "Fred" Iltis[16]	Republican	January 8, 1895	January 2, 1899	Chaska
30th
31st	Andrew Ryan McGill[17]		January 3, 1899	October 31, 1905	Saint Paul	Ramsey
32nd
33rd
34th
35th	Joseph Malcome Hackney[18]		January 8, 1907	January 4, 1915
36th
37th
38th
39th	Joseph Ansgar Jackson[19]	Nonpartisan Election	January 5, 1915	January 3, 1927
40th
41st
42nd
43rd
44th
45th	Lloyd E. Lilygren[20]		January 4, 1927	January 5, 1931
46th
47th	Beldin H. Loftsgaarden[21]	Republican	January 6, 1932	January 4, 1943
48th
49th
50th
51st
52nd
53rd	Emery A. Johnson[22]	Nonpartisan Election	January 5, 1943	January 6, 1947
54th
55th	Everett L. Peterson[23]		January 7, 1947	January 1, 1951
56th
57th	Harold W. Schultz Sr.[24]	Nonpartisan Election-Liberal Caucus	January 1, 1951	January 7, 1963
58th
59th
60th
61st
62nd
63rd	Harmon T. Ogdahl Sr.[25]	Nonpartisan Election-Conservative Caucus	January 8, 1963	January 1, 1973	Minneapolis	Hennepin
64th
65th
66th
67th
68th	William G. Kirchner[26]		January 2, 1973	January 1, 1981	Richfield
69th		Nonpartisan Election-Independent Republican Caucus
70th		Independent Republican
71st
72nd	Steven O. Lindgren[27]		January 6, 1981	January 3, 1983
73rd	Darril Wegscheid[28]	Democratic-Farmer-Labor	January 4, 1983	January 1, 1989	Apple Valley	Dakota Washington
74th
75th
76th	Patricia Pariseau[29]	Independent Republican	January 3, 1989	January 6, 2003	Farmington
77th
78th						Dakota Goodhue Scott
79th
80th		Republican
81st
82nd
83rd	David L. Knutson[30]		January 7, 2003	June 29, 2004	Burnsville	Dakota
	Chris Gerlach[31]		July 21, 2004	January 7, 2013	Apple Valley
84th
85th
86th
87th
88th	Alice M. Johnson[32]	Democratic-Farmer-Labor	January 8, 2013	January 2, 2017	Spring Lake Park	Anoka
89th
90th	Jerry Newton[33]		January 3, 2017	January 4, 2021	Coon Rapids
91st

Recent Elections

2016

The candidate filing deadline was May 31, 2016. Incumbent Alice Johnson did not seek re-election. The primary election took place on August 9, 2016; both Jerry Newton and Brad Sanford ran unopposed.[34] The general election was held on November 8, 2016, resulting in Newton's victory.[35]

Minnesota State Senate election, 2008

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic (DFL)	Jerry Newton	22,129	51.50
	Republican	Brad Sanford	20,838	48.50
Total votes			42,967	100.0
	Democratic (DFL) 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. Alice Johnson defeated incumbent Pam Wolf in the general election, neither of whom faced opposition in their primaries.[36]

Minnesota State Senate election, 2008

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic (DFL)	Alice Johnson	22,814	53.3
	Republican	Pam Wolf	19,962	46.7
Total votes			42,776	100.0
	Democratic (DFL) hold

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