August 13 is Primary Election Day for candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. For primary elections, you must vote a straight party ticket. Winners from each party will be listed on the November ballot.
St. Anthony Village will hold a special election that day for the seat vacated by Wendy Webster when she became mayor. Andrea Stephens has been filling in for Webster since January; she declined to run.
We list candidates in alphabetical order; incumbents are indicated by an asterisk*.
Columbia Heights Mayor
Montrell Bond
Amáda Márquez-Simula*
Columbia Heights City Council
Connie Buesgens*
Laurel Deneen
Ali Farah
Hilltop
Hilltop will not hold a primary election. However, candidates for city council will be on the November ballot.
St. Anthony City Council Special Election
Nadia Elnagdy
Randy Stille
Elnagdy and Stille will participate in a League of Women Voters candidate forum Thursday, July 25, 7 p.m. at St. Anthony City Hall, 3301 Silver Lake Rd.
Minnesota House District 39B
(representing Columbia Heights,
Hilltop and St. Anthony)
Sandra Feist, DFL*
KT Jacobs, Republican
Minnesota House District 60A
(representing Northeast Minneapolis)
Mary Holmberg, Republican
Sydney Jordan, DFL*
U.S. House District 5
Dalia Al-Aqidi, Republican
Abena McKenzie, DFL
Ilhan Omar, DFL*
Don Samuels, DFL
Nate Schluter, DFL
U.S. Senate
John Berman, Republican
Loner Blue, Republican
Steve Carlson, DFL
Joe Fraser, Republican
Alycia R. Gruenhagen, Republican
Ahmad R. Hassan, DFL
George H. Kalberer, DFL
Amy Klobuchar, DFL*
Joyce Lynne Lacey, Independence-Alliance
Patrick D. Munro, Republican
Raymond D. Petersen, Republican
Ole Savior, DFL
Christopher Seymore Sr., Republican
Royce White, Republican
Rebecca Whiting, Libertarian