North Dakota state legislative election results, 2024
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The sections below contain analysis of election results in the state legislative elections for North Dakota in 2024.
General election results
Senate
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North Dakota State Senate District 9 (Special election) |  | Democratic | Won General |
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North Dakota State Senate District 15 (Special election) |  | Republican | Won General |
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House
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North Dakota House of Representatives District 23 (Special election) |  | Republican | Won General |
North Dakota House of Representatives District 23 (Special election) | Democratic | Lost General | |
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 Jeremy Olson Incumbent | Republican | Won General | |
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 Matthew Ruby Incumbent | Republican | Won General | |
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= candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey.
Retiring incumbents
Senate
House
Nine incumbents did not file for re-election in 2024.[1] The average number of retirements in even-year elections from 2010 to 2022 was 10.1. Those incumbents were:
Primary election competitiveness
This section contains data on state legislative primary election competitiveness in North Dakota. These totals include data from all regularly-scheduled House and Senate elections. For more information about Ballotpedia's competitiveness analysis of state legislative elections, please click here.
Post-filing deadline analysis
The following analysis covers all state legislative districts up for election in North Dakota in 2024. Information below was calculated on May 6, 2024, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time. There are 69 state legislative seats up for election this year in North Dakota. Across those, eight incumbents (one Democrat and seven Republicans) did not file to run for re-election. All eight of those retirements came from state senators, while all House incumbents are running for reelection.
Since Ballotpedia began tracking this data in 2010, the average number of retirements per cycle across both chambers of the state legislature was 14.0, with the highest number coming in 2022 (23) and the lowest in 2020 (6). 2024 had the second fewest number of retiring incumbents (8) after 2020 (6).
The total number of contested primaries (with more than one candidate) was 17 - the second most since 2010. In 2024, all 17 contested primaries are Republican primaries while none are Democratic primaries. This means that out of a possible 94 primaries, 18.1% are contested. That is the highest percentage of contested primaries since 2010. The next highest year was 2022 when 17.9% of primaries had more than one candidate, though there were more overall contested primaries that year (21).
North Dakota has a Republican trifecta and a Republican triplex. This means the Republican Party controls the offices of governor, secretary of states, attorney general, and both chambers of the state legislature.
As of May 6, 2024, there are 23 Republican trifectas, 17 Democratic trifectas, and 10 divided governments where neither party holds trifecta control.
North Dakota’s state legislative primaries are scheduled for June 11.
To learn more about North Dakota's state Senate elections in 2024, click here. To learn more about North Dakota's state House elections, click here.
Senate
The table below shows the number and percentage of open seats in the North Dakota State Senate from 2010 to 2024.[2]
| Open Seats in North Dakota State Senate elections: 2010 - 2024 | |||
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| Year | Total seats | Open seats | Seats with incumbents running for re-election |
| 2024 | 23 | 8 (35 percent) | 15 (65 percent) |
| 2022 | 32 | 8 (25 percent) | 24 ( 75 percent) |
| 2020 | 23 | 2 (9 percent) | 21 (91 percent) |
| 2018 | 24 | 5 (21 percent) | 19 (79 percent) |
| 2016 | 23 | 3 (13 percent) | 20 (87 percent) |
| 2014 | 24 | 3 (13 percent) | 21 (87 percent) |
| 2012 | 25 | 4 (16 percent) | 21 (84 percent) |
| 2010 | 24 | 4 (17 percent) | 20 (83 percent) |
House
The table below shows the number and percentage of open seats in the North Dakota House of Representatives from 2010 to 2024.[3]
| Open Seats in North Dakota House of Representatives elections: 2010 - 2024 | |||
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| Year | Total seats | Open seats | Seats with incumbents running for re-election |
| 2024 | 48 | 9 (19 percent) | 39 (81 percent) |
| 2022 | 66 | 19 (29 percent) | 47 (71 percent) |
| 2020 | 46 | 4 (9 percent) | 42 (91 percent) |
| 2018 | 48 | 7 (15 percent) | 41 (85 percent) |
| 2016 | 47 | 12 (26 percent) | 35 (74 percent) |
| 2014 | 48 | 10 (21 percent) | 38 (79 percent) |
| 2012 | 50 | 10 (20 percent) | 40 (80 percent) |
| 2010 | 48 | 12 (25 percent) | 36 (75 percent) |
See also
- Elections
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- Elections by state and year
- State Poll Opening and Closing Times
- State legislative elections, 2024
Footnotes
- ↑ Ballotpedia defines an incumbent as retiring if the incumbent did not file for office or filed for office but withdrew, was disqualified, or otherwise left a race in a manner other than losing the primary, primary runoff, or convention. If an incumbent runs as a write-in candidate, Ballotpedia does not consider them to be retiring. If an incumbent runs in the same chamber for a different seat, Ballotpedia does not consider them to be retiring.
- ↑ Ballotpedia defines a seat as open if the incumbent did not file to run for re-election or filed but withdrew and did not appear on any ballot for his or her seat. If the incumbent withdrew from or did not participate in the primary but later chose to seek re-election to his or her seat as a third party or independent candidate, the seat would not be counted as open. If the incumbent retired or ran for a different seat in the same chamber, his or her original seat would be counted as open unless another incumbent from the same chamber filed to run for that seat, in which case it would not be counted as open due to the presence of an incumbent.
- ↑ Ballotpedia defines a seat as open if the incumbent did not file to run for re-election or filed but withdrew and did not appear on any ballot for his or her seat. If the incumbent withdrew from or did not participate in the primary but later chose to seek re-election to his or her seat as a third party or independent candidate, the seat would not be counted as open. If the incumbent retired or ran for a different seat in the same chamber, his or her original seat would be counted as open unless another incumbent from the same chamber filed to run for that seat, in which case it would not be counted as open due to the presence of an incumbent.
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