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Katrina Christiansen
Katrina Christiansen (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. Senate to represent North Dakota. She lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Biography
Katrina Christiansen was born in Pender, Nebraska. Christiansen earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln in 2005, a graduate degree from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln in 2006, and a doctorate from Iowa State University in 2011. Her career experience includes working as an engineering professor, a plant engineer, a pilot project lead and innovation manager, and a director of malting research and innovation. Christiansen has been affiliated with Washington PTO and the Stutsman County Human Rights Coalition.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: United States Senate election in North Dakota, 2024
General election
General election for U.S. Senate North Dakota
Incumbent Kevin Cramer defeated Katrina Christiansen in the general election for U.S. Senate North Dakota on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Kevin Cramer (R) | 66.3 | 241,569 |
 | Katrina Christiansen (D) | 33.4 | 121,602 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.3 | 1,156 | ||
| Total votes: 364,327 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Kristin Hedger (Independent)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. Senate North Dakota
Katrina Christiansen advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate North Dakota on June 11, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Katrina Christiansen | 99.8 | 19,690 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.2 | 47 | ||
| Total votes: 19,737 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. Senate North Dakota
Incumbent Kevin Cramer advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. Senate North Dakota on June 11, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Kevin Cramer | 97.7 | 82,692 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 2.3 | 1,913 | ||
| Total votes: 84,605 | |||
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Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Christiansen in this election.
2022
See also: United States Senate election in North Dakota, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. Senate North Dakota
Incumbent John Hoeven defeated Katrina Christiansen and Rick Becker in the general election for U.S. Senate North Dakota on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | John Hoeven (R) | 56.4 | 135,474 |
| Katrina Christiansen (D) | 25.0 | 59,995 | |
 | Rick Becker (Independent) | 18.5 | 44,406 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 265 | ||
| Total votes: 240,140 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. Senate North Dakota
Katrina Christiansen defeated Michael Steele in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate North Dakota on June 14, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Katrina Christiansen | 76.8 | 17,187 |
 | Michael Steele | 23.1 | 5,174 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 24 | ||
| Total votes: 22,385 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. Senate North Dakota
Incumbent John Hoeven defeated Riley Kuntz in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate North Dakota on June 14, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | John Hoeven | 77.8 | 59,529 |
 | Riley Kuntz | 21.4 | 16,400 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.7 | 557 | ||
| Total votes: 76,486 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Rick Becker (R)
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Katrina Christiansen did not complete Ballotpedia's 2024 Candidate Connection survey.
2022
Katrina Christiansen completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Christiansen's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- Education: Elementary and Secondary education federal programs like Title 1 need to be retooled to close learning gaps, provide mental, social, and other therapy services at student ratios to improve learning outcomes.
- Health Care-A responsive, compotent, accessible, and affordable health care structure needs to be created for rural and urban communities that allows for basic, advanced health care, mental health care and addiction services.
- Economic Opportunity-There needs to be investment in innovation that keeps the processing of agricultural products in the state to keep the earnings in the state. Growing the processing industry with low utility designs creates jobs, low cost of goods, and keeps revenue and earnings in the state.
We need representation that will work to connect people to opportunity.
We need representation that will deliver investment to our public schools.
We need representation that will deliver resources to the state, not transfer wealth out of state.
We need a senator who can separate the boondoggles from the real opportunities.
We need a senator who will work to solve problems we care and worry about, not prop up special interests.
We need to cap prescription drug prices. Full stop. No one should worry about getting off medication cutting pills in half or skipping doses because it is too much for the monthly budget.
We need to provide resources to stop learning loss in the classroom and improve teacher retention. We need to provide resources to improve mental, social and behavioral health outcomes in our schools and communities.
We need to expand the success of the state mill by increasing value added processing capacity in the state. Not give tax credits to the largest processors.
Energy and Natural Resources
The lawyer says, “I will set up a trust to pay for their kids to go to college.”
The doctor says, “Let me ask my ophthalmologist colleagues if anything can be done for them.”
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Campaign website
Christiansen's campaign website stated the following:
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Education. We need representation that will work to connect people to opportunity. We need representation that will deliver investment to our public schools. We need to provide resources to stop learning loss in the classroom and improve teacher retention. We need to provide resources to improve mental, social and behavioral health outcomes in our schools. We need to let teachers teach.
North Dakota is the leading producer in the USA for spring wheat, durum wheat, oats, canola, flaxseed, and more. We need to do more to support growth in those markets and leverage the state's unique growing environment for cooler weather crops. We need to give our growers alternatives so they can prosper. We need to develop innovative , low utility processing for producers in the state that keep earnings in the state.
North Dakota is one of the largest energy producers in the country but shockingly, for more than a decade into the oil boom, very little has been established to establish industries that flourish here in the face of technology disruption. We need a senator who can separate the boondoggles from the real opportunities. Katrina can do this, as a trained engineer.
Medicare needs to meet the needs of seniors by covering the things that keep our seniors healthy and apart of our lives and communities. Medicare needs to cover prescription drugs. We need to cap prescription drug prices. Full stop. No one needs to worry about getting off medication because it is too much for the monthly budget. Let's close the prescription drug gap for seniors. Medicare also needs to cover, 100%, hearing aids and prescription lenses for our seniors. These seniors need these items to have fulfilling lives.[2] |
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| —Katrina Christiansen's campaign website (2022)[3] | ||
Campaign finance summary
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on April 17, 2022
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Katrina For Senate, “Issues,” accessed June 19, 2022
