Craig Wins Re-Election As Jewish Candidates Win Races

Congresswoman Angie Craig is projected to keep her seat in the House of Representatives and the Democrats are projected to keep control of the Minnesota Senate.

TC Jewfolk is covering Minnesota races with Jewish candidates in the 2024 election, and will update this page as the vote is counted. We’re also covering the State Senate District 45 race because, while neither of the candidates are Jewish, it will decide whether or not the Democratic Farmer-Labor party keeps control of its narrowly-held state government trifecta.

You can see state election results here. Over 1.1 million Minnesotans have already voted early this election.

For the presidential election, Minnesota was called for the Harris-Walz ticket, with the Democrats winning 51% to 47%. However, multiple news outlets nationwide have called the race for the Republican ticket of former President Donald Trump and his running mate, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance.

 

House District 24B – Incumbent Rep. Tina Liebling (D) v. Dan Sepeda (R)

Rep. Tina Liebling won her 11th term in the legislature with a 58% to 42% win over Dan Sepeda, a first-time candidate, representing this southern Minnesota district covering much of Rochester. When the 2025 legislative session begins in January, Liebling will have the joint second-most time served in the Minnesota House of Representatives, along with Melissa Hortman, Leon Lillie, and Rick Hansen.

 

House District 39B – Incumbent Rep. Sandra Feist (D) v. Kt Jacobs (R)

Rep. Sandra Feist won a third term in the House district that covers parts of Columbia Heights, St. Anthony and New Brighton, 71% to 29%. An immigration attorney by day, Feist was challenged by Kt Jacobs, who has been on the Columbia Heights City Council for the past four years.

In the 2023 legislative session, Feist said she may have set the record for the number of bills written and introduced in the session, while on her campaign website, Jacobs said the legislature has not had good governance, and the level of government growth is unsustainable.

 

House District 63B – Incumbent Rep. Emma Greenman (D) v. Diane Napper (R)

Attorney Emma Greenman won her third term in the Minnesota House with an 85% to 15% victory over Diane Napper in this South Minneapolis district. Greenman won with 73% of the vote in 2020 and ran unopposed in 2022. Napper is a graphic designer who ran for the State Senate in 2020 against Sen. Patricia Torres Ray, getting 15% of the vote.

 

Hennepin County District 6 Commissioner – Commissioner Heather Edelson v. Marissa Simonetti

In a rematch of May’s special election Commissioner Heather Edelson defeated challenger Marissa Simonetti 68% to 32%. Edelson won with 54 percent in May’s special election to finish the remainder of the term held by Chris LaTondresse, who stepped down to take a position at an affordable housing non-profit.

The Hennepin County Commissioner positions are non-partisan; Edelson served in the Minnesota House of Representatives as a Democrat from 2019 until the end of the 2024 session, while Simonetti has videos of an interview with Royce White, the GOP senate candidate who lost to Sen. Amy Klobuchar on Election Day, and quotes from Right Wing influencer Jordan Peterson.

District 6 includes areas of Edina, Excelsior, Hopkins, Minnetonka and Wayzata, among others.

 

Minnesota 2nd Congressional District – Incumbent Rep. Angie Craig (D) v. Joe Teirab (R)

The Associated Press has projected Congresswoman Angie Craig to win her race for a fourth term in Congress. She leads former Marine Joe Teirab 56% to 42%. Craig lost in 2016 when she first ran, but then won the rematch against Jason Lewis in 2018, becoming the first DFLer to win the seat since it was reconfigured in 2002.

Teirab won a Republican primary to advance to the general election when he defeated Tayler Rahm; Rahm had dropped out of the race in mid-July to be an adviser to the Donald Trump campaign — prior to the primary election but too late to take his name off the ballot. The South metro district extends to near Mankato.

 

Senate District 45 – Ann Johnson Stewart (D) vs. Kathleen Fowke (R)

In the only State Senate race – and the race that determines which party controls the Minnesota Senate – Ann Jonhson Stewart (DFL) defeated Kathleen Fowke 52% to 47%. The seat became open when Kelly Morrison, who won this seat created by the 2022 redistricting, resigned to run for the Third Congressional District seat vacated by retiring Rep. Dean Phillips.

Fowke had lost to Morrison in the general election in 2022. Johnson Stewart had been in the Minnesota Senate previously, winning a two-year term in 2020 in the old Senate District 44. Her district and Morrison’s district had gotten merged in redistricting prior to the 2022 elections, leading to Johnson Stewart not challenging for the seat.