This is a list of minority leaders of the Minnesota Senate

NameTook officeLeft officeParty/Caucus
Bolesaw G. Novak19511955Liberal
Harold W. Schultz19551963Liberal
Paul A. Thuet19631967Liberal
Karl F. Grittner19671971Liberal
Nick Coleman19711973Liberal
Harold G. Krieger19731975Republican
Robert O. Ashbach19751983Republican/Independent-Republican
James E. Ulland19831985Independent-Republican
Glen Taylor19851987Independent-Republican
Duane Benson19871993Independent-Republican
Dean Johnson19931995Independent-Republican/Republican
Dick Day19952007Republican
David Senjem20072011Republican
Tom Bakk20112013Democratic-Farmer-Labor
David Hann20132017Republican
Tom Bakk20172020Democratic-Farmer-Labor
Susan Kent20202021Democratic-Farmer-Labor
Melisa Franzen20212023Democratic-Farmer-Labor
Mark Johnson2023IncumbentRepublican

Notes on Minnesota political party names

In 1913, Minnesota legislators began to be elected on nonpartisan ballots. Nonpartisanship also was an historical accident that occurred in the 1913 session when a bill to provide for no party elections of judges and city and county officers was amended to include the Legislature in the belief that it would kill the bill. Legislators ran and caucused as "Liberals" or "Conservatives" roughly equivalent in most years to Democratic-Farmer-Labor and Republican, respectively. The law was changed in 1973, in 1976, Senate members again ran with party designation.

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