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North Dakota State Senate elections, 2024
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| Primary | June 11, 2024 |
| General | November 5, 2024 |
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A total of 23 seats out of the North Dakota State Senate’s 47 seats were up for election in 2024. Republicans lost one seat in the election, giving Republicans a 42 seat majority to Democrats’ five seats. Before the election, Republicans controlled 43 seats to Democrats' four.
The North Dakota State Senate was one of 85 state legislative chambers with elections in 2024. There are 99 chambers throughout the country.
Party control
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| Democratic Party | 4 | 5 | |
| Republican Party | 43 | 42 | |
| Total | 47 | 47 | |
Candidates
General election
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Primary
North Dakota State Senate primary 2024 |
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No candidates filed for the Democratic primary |
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| District 6 |
No candidates filed for the Democratic primary |
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| District 8 |
No candidates filed for the Democratic primary |
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| District 10 |
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| District 12 |
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| District 14 |
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| District 16 |
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No candidates filed for the Democratic primary |
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| District 24 |
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| District 26 |
No candidates filed for the Democratic primary |
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| District 32 |
No candidates filed for the Democratic primary |
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| District 36 |
No candidates filed for the Democratic primary |
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| District 38 |
No candidates filed for the Democratic primary |
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No candidates filed for the Democratic primary |
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Voting information
- See also: Voting in North Dakota
General election race ratings
The table below displays race ratings for each race in this chamber from CNalysis.
Incumbents who were not re-elected
Incumbents defeated in general elections
No incumbents lost in general elections. The average number of incumbents who lost in each general election from 2010 to 2022 was three.
Incumbents defeated in primaries
No incumbents lost in primaries. This was less than the average of 0.7 incumbent defeats per cycle from 2010 to 2022.
Retiring incumbents
Eight incumbents did not file for re-election in 2024.[1] This was higher than the average number of retirements (3.9) in even-year elections from 2010 to 2022. The 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).
See also
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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.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 North Dakota Century Code, "Chapter 16.1-11, Section 6," accessed April 24, 2025
- ↑ North Dakota Secretary of State, "Running for Partisan Statewide Executive Office," accessed April 24, 2025
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 North Dakota Secretary of State, "Running for U.S. Congress," accessed April 24, 2025
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 North Dakota Secretary of State, "Running for the ND Legislature," accessed April 24, 2025
- ↑ North Dakota Secretary of State, "Affidavit of Candidacy," accessed April 24, 2025
- ↑ North Dakota Secretary of State, "Statement of Interests," accessed April 24, 2025
- ↑ North Dakota Century Code, "Chapter 16.1-11, Section 10," accessed April 24, 2025
- ↑ North Dakota Century Code, "Chapter 16.1-12, Section 02," accessed April 24, 2025
- ↑ North Dakota Century Code, "Chapter 16.1-12, Section 4," accessed April 24, 2025
- ↑ North Dakota Century Code, "Chapter 16.1-12, Section 2.2," accessed April 24, 2025
- ↑ North Dakota Secretary of State, "Certificate of Write-in Candidacy," accessed April 24, 2025
- ↑ National Conference of State Legislatures, "2024 Legislator Compensation," August 21, 2024
- ↑ North Dakota Constitution, "Article IV, Section 7," accessed February 12, 2021
- ↑ United States District Court for the District of North Dakota, "Case No. 3:22-cv-22 Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, et al., vs. Michael Howe," accessed January 8, 2024
- ↑ Twitter, "RedistrictNet," January 10, 2024
- ↑ U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota, "Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians vs. Michael Howe, in his Official Capacity as Secretary of State of North Dakota," November 17, 2022
