Duluth: 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; Smith not running: Flanagan DFL, Tafoya R, Whiting L, Simonetti I); U.S. Representative MN-8 (Stauber (I) R, Swanson DFL); Governor & Lt Governor (Klobuchar/Schierer DFL, Demuth/Wilson R, Young/Kirby Green); Secretary of State, State Auditor, Attorney General; Minnesota Senate SD-8 (McEwen (I) DFL, Law R) and House HD-8A (Johnson (I) DFL, Kehr II R) at City Hall; St. Louis County offices (Commissioner D1, Auditor/Treasurer, Sheriff, Attorney), Soil & Water, judges; Constitutional Amendment 1 and two ISD 709 referendum questions. No City of Duluth office is on the 2026 ballot..

Holding office16

the sitting council

On the ballot16

4 sitting members running again

The official candidate list ↗ · What Duluth is like — the /local page

Congressional district (city hall): Minnesota's 8th congressional district (City Hall, 411 W 1st St, and all 23 sampled points inside Duluth city) — Pete Stauber (Republican)

Mayor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Roger Reinert ✉️ Elected	Mayor	Independent		City of Duluth

City Councilor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Arik Forsman ✉️ Elected	City Councilor	Independent	At-Large	City of Duluth
David Clanaugh ✉️ Elected	City Councilor	Independent	District 4	City of Duluth
Diane Desotelle ✉️ Elected	City Councilor	Independent	District 2	City of Duluth
Janet Kennedy ✉️ Elected	City Councilor	Independent	District 5	City of Duluth
Jordon Johnson ✉️ Elected	City Councilor	Independent	At-Large	City of Duluth
Lynn Marie Nephew ✉️ Elected	City Councilor	Independent	At-Large	City of Duluth
Roz Randorf ✉️ Elected	City Councilor	Independent	District 3	City of Duluth
Terese Tomanek ✉️ Elected	City Councilor	Independent	At-Large	City of Duluth
Wendy Durrwachter ✉️ Elected	City Councilor	Independent	District 1	City of Duluth

Governor

Name	Office	Party / slate	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

Lieutenant Governor

Name	Office	Party / slate	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

State Representative — HD-8A

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Pete Johnson ✉️ Elected	State Representative → Running	Democratic		Minnesota House of Representatives
Allan Kehr II	State Representative Running	Republican		Minnesota Secretary of State

State Senator — SD-8

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Jennifer A. McEwen ✉️ Elected	State Senator → Running	Democratic		Minnesota Senate
Darrick Law	State Senator Running	Republican		Minnesota Secretary of State

U.S. Senator

Name	Office	Party / slate	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

U.S. Representative — MN-8

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Pete Stauber Elected	U.S. Representative → Running	Republican		U.S. House of Representatives
Trina Swanson	U.S. Representative Running	Democratic		Minnesota Secretary of State

Notes on this record

How the lists were read, and what could not be.

Candidates: Minnesota Secretary of State MyBallotMN sample-ballot data (myballotmn.sos.mn.gov; robots.txt 404). Street ranges for ZIP 55802 from /api/Streets/GetStreets; City Hall (411 W 1st St) falls in range 307891 (odd 303-513 W 1st St), whose /api/PollingPlaceData returns precinct DULUTH P-19, St. Louis County, CD 8, SD 8, HD 8A, County Commissioner 01, ISD 709 sub-district 3, election 8334 '11/03/2026 STATE GENERAL ELECTION'. Retrieved 2026-10-31. Write-ins skipped. Parties as printed (DEMOCRATIC-FARMER-LABOR stored as 'Democratic-Farmer-Labor', partyShort 'Democratic'). Governor/Lt Governor tickets recorded one row per person. Campaign websites as printed on the ballot data.
Recorded as people: U.S. Senate, MN-8, Governor/Lt Governor, SD-8, HD-8A. On the ballot but NOT recorded (brief scope): Secretary of State (Simon DFL, Kuhl-Stennes Green, Jude R, Tangen L), State Auditor (Reeves Forward Independence, Jensen R, Filipovich DFL), Attorney General (Ellison DFL, Schutz R), St. Louis County Commissioner District 1 (Annie Harala, Kris Eilers — nonpartisan), County Auditor/Treasurer (Nancy Nilsen), Sheriff (Gordon Scott Ramsay), County Attorney (Kimberly J. Maki), Soil & Water supervisors, appellate and 6th District judges.
Municipal: Mayor from https://duluthmn.gov/mayor/ ('took office as the 40th Mayor of the City of Duluth in January 2024'); nine City Councilors (four at-large, five districts — 'Each of the five council districts elects its own councilor. There are also four at large councilors') from each councilor's page under /city-council/city-councilors/, retrieved 2026-10-31, with official @duluthmn.gov emails and portraits as printed (linked). 'Term Expires' per page: January 3, 2028 (Nephew, Forsman, Durrwachter D1, Randorf D3, Kennedy D5) and January 7, 2030 (Johnson, Tomanek, Desotelle D2, Clanaugh D4). Non-partisan: party null. Nephew's page shows no portrait. Next City of Duluth municipal election: November 2027 (Mayor — elected 2023, four-year term — and the five seats expiring January 2028); inferred from those term dates, not read from a dated city election calendar. MyBallotMN at City Hall lists no city office for 2026.
Districts: Census geocoder (robots 404) at City Hall gave CD-8 (120th), SD-8, HD-8A. An 8x8 coordinate grid over 46.64-46.86 N, 92.30-91.99 W: 23 points inside 'Duluth city', all in CD-8; Senate 8 (21 points) and 3 (2); House 8A (11), 8B (10), 3B (2). So two Senate and three House districts cover the city; only City Hall's are recorded (8B is Liish Kozlowski, DFL; 3B Natalie Zeleznikar, R; SD-3 Grant Hauschild, DFL — per the House and Senate member lists, not recorded as rows). Coarse sample.
Sitting members: MN-8 from house.gov/representatives (robots allows; read 2026-10-31). Senators Klobuchar and Smith and Governor Walz carried from the us-minneapolis record (CC0 @unitedstates list and the Legislative Reference Library, read 2026-10-22), not re-read; Klobuchar is the DFL nominee for Governor (runningSource updated to the Duluth ballot). SD-8 from the Minnesota Senate member feed (www.senate.mn/api/members, which redirects to www.mnsenate.gov; robots.txt there 404). HD-8A from house.mn.gov/members/list (robots disallows /Fiscal2/ only). Official legislative emails kept; Capitol phone numbers and office addresses not copied.
No home addresses, phones or personal emails recorded. standsFor null for everyone (no candidate statements read). Nothing was blocked for Duluth; www.sos.mn.gov (Radware CAPTCHA per earlier runs) and mn.gov were not requested.

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.