Minnesota Report
The only clear result from both Special Election primaries last night is the winner was pathos, or in layman’s terms Pathetic. In St Paul’s House District 64A, with a crowed field of five DFL candidates only 28,085 registered voters, a mere 2,850 bothered to exercise their franchise for a big whopping 16.23%. This means as anticipated with a bare majority of 1,364 votes or 29.91% Meg Luger-Nikolai (DFL) will be the newly elected State Representative come January 27, 2026.
In Woodbury’s House District 47A where the DFL Primary is the election, the results are not any better. With 28,270 registered voters with a three way primary, 931 people cast their vote for a pittance of 3.3% of those registered, Shelley Buck (DFL) receive 815 votes for an 87.54% of the vote, will also be a newly minted State Representative after the January General Election.
We wonder if a candidate were to file as Apathetic, if they would be able to garner the bulk of the votes.
Maybe both Luger-Nikolai and Buck should request positions on the House Elections Finance and Government Operations Committee and work on tools to foster electoral turnout.