Bloomington: who represents it, and who is running
U.S. general election (federal, state and county offices) votes on 2026-11-03. It elects u.S. Senator (open seat, Smith not running); U.S. Representative MN-3; Governor & Lt Governor (open seat), Secretary of State, State Auditor, Attorney General; State Senate SD-50/SD-51 and State House 50A/50B/51A/51B; Hennepin County offices; school board and judicial seats; Constitutional Amendment. No City of Bloomington offices (Hennepin County's 2026 city-offices list does not include Bloomington; the City says candidate filing next opens July 2027)..
Holding office13
the sitting council
On the ballot10
1 sitting members running again
The official candidate list ↗ · What Bloomington is like — the /local page
Congressional district (city hall): Minnesota's 3rd congressional district (city hall, Bloomington Civic Plaza; the whole city falls in MN-3 on a 43-point sample) — Kelly Morrison (Democratic)
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Mayor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tim Busse ✉️ Elected | Mayor | Independent | City of Bloomington MN |
2
Councilmember
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Danielle Robertson ✉️ Elected | Councilmember | Independent | At Large | City of Bloomington MN |
| Dwayne Lowman ✉️ Elected | Councilmember | Independent | District I | City of Bloomington MN |
| Jenna Carter ✉️ Elected | Councilmember | Independent | At Large | City of Bloomington MN |
| Lona Dallessandro ✉️ Elected | Councilmember | Independent | District III | City of Bloomington MN |
| Shawn Nelson ✉️ Elected | Councilmember | Independent | District II | City of Bloomington MN |
| Victor Rivas ✉️ Elected | Councilmember | Independent | District IV | City of Bloomington MN |
3
Governor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tim Walz Elected | Governor | Democratic | Minnesota Legislative Reference Library | |
| Amy Klobuchar Elected | U.S. Senator → Running for Governor | Democratic | @unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json) | |
| Lisa Demuth | Governor Running | Republican | Minnesota Secretary of State | |
| Steven Young | Governor Running | Green | Minnesota Secretary of State |
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Lieutenant Governor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ben Schierer | Lieutenant Governor Running | Democratic | Minnesota Secretary of State | |
| Jane Kirby | Lieutenant Governor Running | Green | Minnesota Secretary of State | |
| Ryan Wilson | Lieutenant Governor Running | Republican | Minnesota Secretary of State |
5
State Representative — HD-51B
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nathan Coulter ✉️ Elected | State Representative | Democratic | Minnesota House of Representatives |
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State Senator — SD-51
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melissa H. Wiklund ✉️ Elected | State Senator | Democratic | Minnesota Senate |
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U.S. Senator
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tina Smith Elected | U.S. Senator | Democratic | @unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json) | |
| Marisa Simonetti | U.S. Senator Running | Independent | Minnesota Secretary of State | |
| Michele Tafoya | U.S. Senator Running | Republican | Minnesota Secretary of State | |
| Peggy Flanagan | U.S. Senator Running | Democratic | Minnesota Secretary of State | |
| Rebecca Whiting | U.S. Senator Running | Libertarian | Minnesota Secretary of State |
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U.S. Representative — MN-3
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kelly Morrison Elected | U.S. Representative | Democratic | U.S. House of Representatives |
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Notes on this record
How the lists were read, and what could not be.
- Municipal: Mayor and six Councilmembers (four districts, two at-large) from bloomingtonmn.gov "City Councilmembers and district maps", retrieved 2026-10-31 (robots.txt: Drupal default, page allowed). Official @BloomingtonMN.gov emails as printed; the phone numbers printed beside them NOT copied. Council-Manager charter (1960); no other city-wide elected office. Non-partisan.
- Next City of Bloomington municipal election: November 2027 (City candidate-filing page: "Candidate filing materials will be available prior to the next candidate filing period in July 2027"; terms printed expire 2028-01-01 and 2030-01-01, i.e. staggered four-year terms elected in odd years). Hennepin County's Offices on the Ballot page (updated 2026-09-02) lists no Bloomington city office for 2026-11-03.
- Districts: city hall geocodes to CD-3, SD-51, HD-51B. A 7x9 point sample (Census geocoder coordinates endpoint) put 43 points inside Bloomington city: all CD-3; Senate 50 (22) and 51 (21); House 50A (2), 50B (20), 51B (21). 51A also appears among Hennepin's districts and may hold a sliver of the city — coarse sample. Only city hall's SD-51 and HD-51B members recorded.
- Candidates: the MN Secretary of State's candidate-filings and election-results pages (www.sos.mn.gov, electionresults.sos.mn.gov general-election pages) redirect to a Radware bot-manager CAPTCHA (validate.perfdrive.com) — not bypassed. A request to the MyBallotMN ballot-data API for a Bloomington address range was refused by this agent's own permission guard and was not retried. So the 2026-11-03 candidates for MN-3, SD-51 and HD-51B are NOT recorded and those sitting members stay "elected". Statewide contests (U.S. Senate, Governor/Lt Governor tickets) are carried over from the us-minneapolis record, which read the SOS ballot data on 2026-10-22. Secondary pointers (not used as sources): a Wikipedia mirror says Wiklund is retiring (SD-51 open); AFSCME lists an endorsement of Simon Traulman-Cordova for SD-51 — re-check against the SOS list when reachable.
- Federal: Morrison (MN-3) from house.gov/representatives (robots allows). Senators via the CC0 @unitedstates legislators-current.json (senate.gov returns 403). Governor Walz row reused from the us-minneapolis record (mn.gov's robots.txt limits visits to 0000-1200 GMT; this run was at ~23:10 GMT and did not fetch mn.gov).
- Hosts: geocoding.geo.census.gov, myballotmn.sos.mn.gov, unitedstates.github.io, www.mnsenate.gov (robots 404 = no rules); www.house.gov, www.bloomingtonmn.gov, www.house.mn.gov, www.hennepincounty.gov (robots read, paths allowed); electionresults.sos.mn.gov (robots redirects to NotFound; home page read, then Radware CAPTCHA on the next page — stopped). www.senate.mn redirects to www.mnsenate.gov. One User-Agent: "ResearchUpon-politics/1.0 (civic research; +https://researchupon.com)". No home addresses, phones or personal emails; standsFor null for everyone.
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Sources
Prepared 2026-10-31. Nomination papers are never opened: they carry home addresses. After voting day a candidate list becomes a result; these rows are reconciled, not deleted.
- Minnesota Secretary of State — MyBallotMN sample-ballot data, 11/03/2026 State General Election (precinct Minneapolis W-3 P-12: CD5, SD59, HD59B, Hennepin Commissioner District 3) 9
- City of Bloomington MN — City Councilmembers and district maps 7
- U.S. House of Representatives — Directory of Representatives (Minnesota, 3rd: 'Morrison, Kelly', D) 1
- Minnesota Senate — member list (District 51, DFL, Majority Member) 1
- Minnesota House of Representatives — Members list ('Nathan Coulter (51B, DFL)') 1
- Minnesota Legislative Reference Library — Executive Orders database (Governor: Tim Walz; latest, Emergency Executive Order 26-11, signed and filed 10/01/2026) 1
- @unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json) — senate.gov returned HTTP 403 1
- @unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json) — senate.gov returned HTTP 403 (Access Denied) even for robots.txt 1