1936 United States Senate election in Minnesota

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Nominee Ernest Lundeen Theodore Christianson Party Farmer–Labor Republican Popular vote 663,363 402,404 Percentage 62.24% 37.76%

County results Lundeen:     50–60%     60–70%     70–80% Christianson:     50–60%     60–70%

U.S. senator before election Elmer A. Benson Farmer–Labor Elected U.S. Senator Ernest Lundeen Farmer–Labor

The1936 United States Senate election in Minnesota took place on November 3, 1936. Incumbent Farmer–LaboriteElmer A. Benson, who had been temporarily appointed byGovernorFloyd B. Olson in 1935 to fill the seat of the deceased RepublicanU.S. SenatorThomas D. Schall, opted torun for Governor rather than seek election to a full term or to fill the remainder of the unexpired term. Governor Olson won theFarmer–Labor primary for nomination to the full Senate term, but died of stomach cancer prior to the general election. In Olson's place, the Farmer–Labor Party ranU.S. RepresentativeErnest Lundeen, who went on to defeat former GovernorTheodore Christianson of theRepublican Party of Minnesota in the general election. Aspecial election held on the same date elected Republican nomineeGuy V. Howard to serve the remainder of Schall's unexpired term.

• Patrick J. Delaney
• Beldin H. Loftsgaarden, ConservativeState Senator from the 37th district since 1931

Following the death ofFloyd B. Olson, theMinnesota Democratic Party opted not to field its nominees in the 1936 senatorial andgubernatorial elections. Consequently, regardless of the fact that the Minnesota Democratic Party had held a primary election and Delaney had won the Democratic nomination in that primary election, Delaney did not appear on the general election ballot.

• Floyd B. Olson, 22ndGovernor of Minnesota since 1931
• Carl E. Taylor

Two months after winning the primary, Olson died of stomach cancer at theMayo Clinic inRochester, Minnesota. The state central committee of the Farmer–Labor Party selectedErnest Lundeen, who had served in theUnited States House of Representatives as a Farmer–Laborite since 1933, had previously served as a Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1917 to 1919, and had been a member of the nonpartisanMinnesota House of Representatives from 1911 to 1914, to fill the vacancy in the party's nomination.

• Theodore Christianson,U.S. Representative since 1933 and 21stGovernor of Minnesota (1925–1931)
• Margaret H. Schall (named on the ballot as "Mrs. Thomas D. Schall"), widow ofThomas D. Schall

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