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Alexandra Deufel
Alexandra Deufel (Democratic Party) ran for election to the North Dakota House of Representatives to represent District 40. She lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Deufel completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Alexandra Deufel was born in Saarbrücken, Germany. She earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Calgary in 1996 and a Ph.D. from Lehigh University in 2002. Her career experience includes working as a professor.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: North Dakota House of Representatives elections, 2024
General election
General election for North Dakota House of Representatives District 40 (2 seats)
Incumbent Matthew Ruby and Macy Bolinske defeated Alexandra Deufel in the general election for North Dakota House of Representatives District 40 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Matthew Ruby (R)  | 42.2 | 3,211 |
| ✔ |  | Macy Bolinske (R) | 38.4 | 2,918 |
 | Alexandra Deufel (D) | 18.9 | 1,441 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.5 | 35 | ||
| Total votes: 7,605 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for North Dakota House of Representatives District 40 (2 seats)
Alexandra Deufel advanced from the Democratic primary for North Dakota House of Representatives District 40 on June 11, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Alexandra Deufel | 97.0 | 230 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 3.0 | 7 | ||
| Total votes: 237 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for North Dakota House of Representatives District 40 (2 seats)
Incumbent Matthew Ruby and Macy Bolinske advanced from the Republican primary for North Dakota House of Representatives District 40 on June 11, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Matthew Ruby | 52.1 | 847 |
| ✔ | | Macy Bolinske | 47.1 | 767 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.8 | 13 | ||
| Total votes: 1,627 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Ronald Westberry (R)
- Aaron West (R)
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Deufel in this election.
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Alexandra Deufel completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Deufel's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I have lived in ND for over 20 years and have witnessed a change from a live-and-let-live attitude to a very socially restrictive climate. I want to offer the people in my district a clear alternative. I grew up in a small city in Germany. My dad was and engineer and my mom was a homemaker. I left Germany to attend university in Calgary, Alberta and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. I became a citizen and moved to Minot to find the rural life and colder climate with four seasons.
My husband and I have a teen son and live on a hobby farm with horses, cats, dogs, and a hay business. We sold at the Minot Farmers Market for ten years and own a business renting apartments.- The ND GOP is no longer the party of freedom and small government, but inserts politicians into our most personal medical and life decisions, from draconian abortion bans to book bans. As a social libertarian, I will push against further culture war bills that will certainly keep coming. I fully expect bills banning certain contraception, the 'morning-after pill' and new attempts at other regressive social programming.
- As a scientist, I know that human-caused climate change is real and I want to ensure we push an all-of-the-above energy policy in this state. While the oil industry has been extremely profitable to the state and will not go anywhere for a long time, we need to make sure we support alternative energy just as much. Aside from alternative energy, we can also support our ranching community in moving to soil-preserving, CO2 removing rotational grazing practices by providing grants and educational support. There are many ways to address climate change that work with our rural communities, not against them.
- Lastly, we need to become welcoming in this state and not push away a young, diverse population with our extremist social climate and policies that do not support working people. We need to do more to make childbirth and childcare affordable. We need to support rural hospitals and the doctors that work there. We have lost access to maternity care in many rural areas. We need to make school lunches free for all children and we need to support our K-12 schools so they don't have to rely so much on property taxes.
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Campaign finance summary
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See also
2024 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on September 11, 2024
