Saint Paul: 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 — Tina Smith not running), U.S. Representative MN-4; Governor & Lt Governor (joint ticket, open seat), Secretary of State, State Auditor, Attorney General; all Minnesota Senate seats (incl. SD-65) and House seats (incl. HD-65B); Ramsey County offices (incl. Commissioner District 5 and County Attorney); judicial seats; City Question 1 (St. Paul). No City of Saint Paul offices..

Holding office15

the sitting council

On the ballot14

5 sitting members running again

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

Congressional district (city hall): Minnesota's 4th congressional district (covers the whole city) — Betty McCollum (Democratic)

Mayor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Kaohly Her Elected	Mayor	Independent		City of Saint Paul

Councilmember

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Anika Bowie ✉️ Elected	Councilmember	Independent	Ward 1	City of Saint Paul
Cheniqua Johnson ✉️ Elected	Councilmember	Independent	Ward 7	City of Saint Paul
HwaJeong Kim ✉️ Elected	Councilmember	Independent	Ward 5	City of Saint Paul
Molly Coleman ✉️ Elected	Councilmember	Independent	Ward 4	City of Saint Paul
Nelsie Yang ✉️ Elected	Councilmember	Independent	Ward 6	City of Saint Paul
Saura Jost ✉️ Elected	Councilmember	Independent	Ward 3	City of Saint Paul

County Commissioner District 5 — Ramsey County Commissioner District 5

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
María Isa Pérez-Vega ✉️ Elected	State Representative → Running for County Commissioner District 5	Democratic		Minnesota House of Representatives
Rebecca Noecker ✉️ Elected	Councilmember → Running for County Commissioner District 5	Independent	Ramsey County Commissioner District 5	City of Saint Paul

Governor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Tim Walz Elected	Governor	Democratic		Minnesota Legislative Reference Library

State Representative — HD-65B

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Sebastian Ellefson acclaimed	State Representative Running	Democratic		Minnesota Secretary of State

State Senator — SD-65

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Sandra L. Pappas ✉️ Elected	State Senator	Democratic	Minnesota Senate
Robyn Gulley	State Senator Running	Democratic	Minnesota Secretary of State
Rocco	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)
Peggy Flanagan Elected	Lieutenant Governor → Running for U.S. Senator	Democratic	Minnesota Legislative Reference Library
Marisa Simonetti	U.S. Senator Running	Independent	Minnesota Secretary of State
Michele Tafoya	U.S. Senator Running	Republican	Minnesota Secretary of State
Rebecca Whiting	U.S. Senator Running	Libertarian	Minnesota Secretary of State

Governor & Lt Governor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Amy Klobuchar Elected	U.S. Senator → Running for Governor & Lt Governor	Democratic	@unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json)
Lisa Demuth	Governor & Lt Governor Running	Republican	Minnesota Secretary of State
Steven Young	Governor & Lt Governor Running	Green	Minnesota Secretary of State

U.S. Representative — MN-4

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Betty McCollum Elected	U.S. Representative → Running	Democratic		U.S. House of Representatives
Paul Wikstrom	U.S. Representative Running	Republican		Minnesota Secretary of State

Notes on this record

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

Municipal: Mayor from the City of Saint Paul Mayor's Office page and the 7 ward councilmembers from the City Council page (www.stpaul.gov, robots allows; retrieved 2026-10-22). Official ward mailboxes (wardN@ci.stpaul.mn.us) recorded; office phones and the city hall room/street lines on the page not copied. No city photos linked (the only mayor image is an event photo, not an official portrait). Saint Paul has no other city-wide elected office besides the mayor.
City elections: the city clerk's elections page says the city contracts with Ramsey County for election services; the SOS local-offices media file has NO City of Saint Paul office on the 2026-11-03 ballot, only 'CITY QUESTION 1 (St. Paul)'. Next regular municipal elections: council (all 7 wards, 4-year terms) in November 2027 and mayor in November 2029, on the city's odd-year cycle — inferred from the cycle (council elected 2023, mayor elected 2025), not stated on a city page that could be read.
Candidates: from the Minnesota Secretary of State's official 2026 general-election media files on electionresultsfiles.sos.mn.gov (allracesbycounty.txt, ussenate.txt, ushouse.txt, stsenate.txt, LegislativeByDistrict.txt, local.txt; no robots.txt, 404), retrieved 2026-10-22. These pre-election files already carry vote/precinct numbers in some rows (e.g. U.S. Senate, MN-1), which are test placeholders before election night — ONLY candidate names, offices and party codes were used. Party codes as printed: DFL, R, GP, LIB, IND, FI, NP. Running mates are noted, not listed as people. Write-in lines skipped. Other statewide contests (Secretary of State, State Auditor, Attorney General) are on the ballot but not listed as people, per the brief.
The SOS candidate finder (candidates.sos.mn.gov) loaded once, but its download postbacks — and the electionresults.sos.mn.gov media-file index — redirected to a Radware Bot Manager challenge (validate.perfdrive.com) — not bypassed. www.sos.state.mn.us redirected even robots.txt to an IT-services interstitial (not followed further).
Ramsey County (ramseycounty.us / ramseycountymn.gov) robots.txt disallows ClaudeBot, anthropic-ai and Claude-Web (and *.pdf and /sites/ for everyone), so no Ramsey County Elections page or sample ballot was fetched. senate.gov returned HTTP 403 even for robots.txt; tigerweb.geo.census.gov rejected the request ('Request Rejected').
Districts: Census geocoder (coordinates endpoint) puts city hall (44.9441, -93.0950) in MN-4, Senate District 65 and House District 65B (2026 state legislative layers). A 64-point grid over the city bounds (36 points inside St. Paul city) found only MN-4, Senate Districts 64, 65, 66, 67 and House Districts 64A, 64B, 65A, 65B, 66A, 66B, 67A, 67B (all current members DFL per the House list and Senate member JSON); only city hall's SD-65 and HD-65B are recorded as people. A grid can miss a small sliver.
Federal: U.S. Representative from house.gov/representatives (robots allows); Senators from the CC0 @unitedstates legislators-current.json (senate.gov 403). Klobuchar (Senate term to 2031) is the DFL nominee for Governor; Lt Gov Peggy Flanagan is the DFL nominee for Tina Smith's open U.S. Senate seat. Governor Walz from the Legislative Reference Library's Governors list (lrl.mn.gov, robots allows /mngov/); mn.gov robots.txt sets 'Visit-time: 0000-1200' (GMT) and was respected, so mn.gov/governor was not fetched.
Two Saint Paul officeholders face each other for Ramsey County Commissioner District 5: Council President Rebecca Noecker (Ward 2) and State Rep. María Isa Pérez-Vega (HD-65B). Pérez-Vega is not on the HD-65B ballot; Sebastian Ellefson (DFL) is unopposed there. Sen. Sandy Pappas (SD-65) is not on the ballot; Robyn Gulley (DFL) and a Republican printed as '_ Rocco' are.
No home addresses, phones or personal emails recorded (the SOS file layout includes residence and campaign addresses — the results-format files used here carry none, and none were copied). standsFor left null for everyone. Only one photo linked (MN House member image for HD-65B).

Sources

Prepared 2026-10-22. Nomination papers are never opened: they carry home addresses. After voting day a candidate list becomes a result; these rows are reconciled, not deleted.