Mankato: 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: Flanagan DFL, Tafoya R, Whiting L, Simonetti I); U.S. Representative MN-1 (Finstad (I) R, Johnson DFL); Governor & Lt Governor (Klobuchar/Schierer DFL, Demuth/Wilson R, Young/Kirby Green); Secretary of State, State Auditor, Attorney General; Minnesota Senate SD-18 (Frentz (I) DFL, Henry R) and House HD-18B (Frederick (I) DFL, unopposed) / HD-18A (Schwartz (I) R, Hanson DFL); Blue Earth County offices; judges; Constitutional Amendment 1; ISD 77 school board; and the CITY OF MANKATO municipal election: Mayor (Massad, Hamann) and Council Wards 1, 3 and 5..

Holding office6

the sitting council

On the ballot22

4 sitting members running again

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

Congressional district (city hall): Minnesota's 1st congressional district (every sampled Mankato precinct's ballot carries 'U.S. Representative District 1') — Brad Finstad (Republican)

Mayor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Julia Hamann	Mayor Running	Independent		Minnesota Secretary of State
Najwa Massad	Mayor Running	Independent		Minnesota Secretary of State

Council Member — Ward 1

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Michael McLaughlin acclaimed	Council Member Running	Independent	Ward 1	Minnesota Secretary of State

Council Member — Ward 3

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Don Friend	Council Member Running	Independent	Ward 3	Minnesota Secretary of State
Jacob Bases	Council Member Running	Independent	Ward 3	Minnesota Secretary of State

Council Member — Ward 5

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Bryan Schneider	Council Member Running	Independent	Ward 5	Minnesota Secretary of State
Jessica Hatanpa	Council Member Running	Independent	Ward 5	Minnesota Secretary of State

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-18B

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Luke Frederick ✉️ Elected acclaimed	State Representative → Running	Democratic		Minnesota House of Representatives

State Senator — SD-18

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Nick A. Frentz ✉️ Elected	State Senator → Running	Democratic		Minnesota Senate
Jackie Henry	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-1

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Brad Finstad Elected	U.S. Representative → Running	Republican		U.S. House of Representatives
Jake Johnson	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), election 8334 '11/03/2026 STATE GENERAL ELECTION', retrieved 2026-11-01. ZIP 56001 street ranges from /api/Streets/GetStreets; 10 Civic Center Plaza (City Hall) is not a listed street, so the adjacent range 118-611 S 2nd St (precinct MANKATO W-04 P-14: SD-18, HD-18B, County Commissioner 1, ISD 77) is used for City Hall. 45 random 56001 ranges sampled: Mankato precincts W-01..W-05 all in SD-18; HD-18B (W-01, W-03, W-05, W-04 P-14/16, W-02 P-04/06) and HD-18A (W-04 P-17, W-02 P-05/07). Write-ins skipped. Parties as printed (DEMOCRATIC-FARMER-LABOR stored as 'Democratic-Farmer-Labor', partyShort 'Democratic'). Governor/Lt Gov tickets one row per person. Mankato extends into Nicollet/Le Sueur County ZIP 56003 areas — not sampled.
City of Mankato 2026 municipal election is ON this ballot: Mayor (Najwa Massad; Julia Hamann), Council Member Ward 1 (Michael McLaughlin, only candidate), Ward 3 (Don Friend; Jacob Bases), Ward 5 (Bryan Schneider; Jessica Hatanpa). Wards 2 and 4 and the at-large seat are not on the 2026 ballot (sampled W-02 and W-04 precincts show Mayor only). Non-partisan: party null.
Sitting City Council NOT recorded: www.mankatomn.gov answers HTTP 403 'Access Denied' even for robots.txt; the city's agenda host public.destinyhosted.com robots.txt is 'User-agent: * Disallow: /'; Blue Earth County (blueearthcountymn.gov) answers a Cloudflare 'Attention Required' page; MN SOS election results (electionresults.sos.mn.gov) redirect to a Radware bot check (validate.perfdrive.com) — none bypassed. Unverified, from news search snippets only (not rows): Mike Laven won the at-large seat in 2024 and serves as council president; Dennis Dieken (Ward 2) and Jenn Melby-Kelley (Ward 4) were elected in 2024; Najwa Massad re-elected mayor in 2022. For Jim: paste the council roster from mankatomn.gov to add the sitting council.
Sitting members: MN-1 from house.gov/representatives (read 2026-11-01). SD-18 from the Minnesota Senate members API (www.mnsenate.gov/api/members). HD-18B from house.mn.gov/members/list; HD-18A is Erica Schwartz (R), who is on the ballot again vs Leah Hanson (DFL) — not recorded as a row (City Hall rule). Senators Klobuchar and Smith and Governor Walz carried from the us-duluth record (CC0 @unitedstates list and Legislative Reference Library, read 2026-10-22), not re-read; Klobuchar is the DFL nominee for Governor on the Mankato ballot.
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), Blue Earth County Commissioner District 1 (Patty O'Connor), Sheriff (Jeff Wersal), County Attorney (Pat McDermott), Soil & Water supervisors, ISD 77 school board (elect 3: Joel Hollerich, Kari Pratt, Tracy N. Frederick, Patrick Baker), appellate and 5th District judges.
No home addresses, phones or personal emails recorded (the member lists print Capitol phones and office addresses — not copied). standsFor null for everyone. Next City of Mankato municipal election after 2026: November 2028 (Wards 2, 4 and at-large, on the even-year cycle) — inferred, not read from a city calendar.

Sources

Prepared 2026-11-01. Nomination papers are never opened: they carry home addresses. After voting day a candidate list becomes a result; these rows are reconciled, not deleted.