Ole Savior

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Ole Savior

Democratic Party

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Last election

August 13, 2024

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Ole Savior (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Minnesota. He lost in the Democratic primary on August 13, 2024.

Elections

2024

See also: United States Senate election in Minnesota, 2024

General election

General election for U.S. Senate Minnesota

Incumbent Amy Klobuchar defeated Royce White, Rebecca Whiting, and Joyce Lacey in the general election for U.S. Senate Minnesota on November 5, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Amy Klobuchar (D)	56.2	1,792,441
		Royce White (R)	40.5	1,291,712
		Rebecca Whiting (L)	1.7	55,215
		Joyce Lacey (Independence-Alliance Party of Minnesota)	1.5	46,377
		Other/Write-in votes	0.1	3,578

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 3,189,323
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Minnesota

Incumbent Amy Klobuchar defeated Steve Carlson, Ahmad Hassan, Ole Savior, and George Kalberer in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Minnesota on August 13, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Amy Klobuchar	94.3	305,055
		Steve Carlson	2.9	9,535
		Ahmad Hassan	1.5	4,891
		Ole Savior	0.8	2,478
		George Kalberer	0.5	1,578

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 323,537
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Derek Logan (D)

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. Senate Minnesota

The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate Minnesota on August 13, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Royce White	38.5	74,814
		Joe Fraser	29.3	56,909
		Raymond Petersen	8.4	16,237
		Alycia Gruenhagen	7.7	15,017
		John Berman	7.3	14,158
		Patrick Munro	4.9	9,444
		Christopher Seymore	2.6	5,020
		Loner Blue	1.4	2,727

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 194,326
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• David Hilbrich (R)
• Gene Rechtzigel (R)
• Mike Ruoho (R)

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2022

See also: Minnesota gubernatorial and lieutenant gubernatorial election, 2022

General election

General election for Governor of Minnesota

The following candidates ran in the general election for Governor of Minnesota on November 8, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Tim Walz (D)	52.3	1,312,349
		Scott Jensen (R)	44.6	1,119,941
		James McCaskel (Legal Marijuana Now Party)	1.2	29,346
		Steve Patterson (Grassroots-Legalize Cannabis Party of Minnesota)	0.9	22,599
		Hugh McTavish (Independence-Alliance Party of Minnesota)	0.7	18,156
		Gabrielle Prosser (Socialist Workers Party)	0.3	7,241
		Joyce Lacey (Independent) (Write-in)	0.0	11
		Mohamed Mourssi-Alfash (Independent) (Write-in)	0.0	5
		Loner Blue (Independent) (Write-in)	0.0	4
		Joshua Olgbolahan Jubril (Independent) (Write-in)	0.0	0
		Other/Write-in votes	0.0	1,009

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 2,510,661
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Cory Hepola (Independent)

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Governor of Minnesota

Incumbent Tim Walz defeated Ole Savior in the Democratic primary for Governor of Minnesota on August 9, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Tim Walz	96.5	416,973
		Ole Savior	3.5	14,950

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 431,923
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Brandon Millholland-Corcoran (D)

Republican primary election

Republican primary for Governor of Minnesota

Scott Jensen defeated Joyce Lacey and Bob Carney Jr. in the Republican primary for Governor of Minnesota on August 9, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Scott Jensen	89.3	288,499
		Joyce Lacey	6.6	21,308
		Bob Carney Jr.	4.1	13,213

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 323,020
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Mike Murphy (R)
• Neil Shah (R)
• Michelle Benson (R)
• Paul Gazelka (R)
• Mike Marti (R)
• Kendall Qualls (R)
• Richard Stanek (R)
• Scott Magie (R)

Grassroots-Legalize Cannabis Party of Minnesota primary election

Grassroots-Legalize Cannabis Party of Minnesota primary for Governor of Minnesota

Steve Patterson defeated Darrell Paulsen in the Grassroots-Legalize Cannabis Party of Minnesota primary for Governor of Minnesota on August 9, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Steve Patterson	59.1	1,003
		Darrell Paulsen	40.9	693

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 1,696
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Legal Marijuana Now Party primary election

Legal Marijuana Now Party primary for Governor of Minnesota

James McCaskel defeated Chris Wright in the Legal Marijuana Now Party primary for Governor of Minnesota on August 9, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		James McCaskel	51.9	1,461
		Chris Wright	48.1	1,356

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 2,817
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2018

See also: Minnesota gubernatorial and lieutenant gubernatorial election, 2018

General election

General election for Governor of Minnesota

Tim Walz defeated Jeff Johnson, Chris Wright, and Josh Welter in the general election for Governor of Minnesota on November 6, 2018.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Tim Walz (D)	53.8	1,393,096
		Jeff Johnson (R)	42.4	1,097,705
		Chris Wright (Grassroots Party)	2.7	68,667
		Josh Welter (L)	1.0	26,735
		Other/Write-in votes	0.0	1,084

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 2,587,287 (100.00% precincts reporting)
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Christopher Seymore (Independent)

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Governor of Minnesota

Tim Walz defeated Erin Murphy, Lori Swanson, Tim Holden, and Ole Savior in the Democratic primary for Governor of Minnesota on August 14, 2018.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Tim Walz	41.6	242,832
		Erin Murphy	32.0	186,969
		Lori Swanson	24.6	143,517
		Tim Holden	1.1	6,398
		Ole Savior	0.7	4,019

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 583,735
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Tina Liebling (D)

Republican primary election

Republican primary for Governor of Minnesota

Jeff Johnson defeated Tim Pawlenty and Matt Kruse in the Republican primary for Governor of Minnesota on August 14, 2018.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Jeff Johnson	52.6	168,841
		Tim Pawlenty	43.9	140,743
		Matt Kruse	3.5	11,330

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 320,914
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Nikolay Nikolayevich Bey (R)
• Bob Carney Jr. (R)
• Christopher Chamberlin (R)

2014

See also: United States Senate elections in Minnesota, 2014

Savior ran in the 2014 election for the U.S. Senate, to represent Minnesota. Savior sought the Republican nomination in the primary on August 12, 2014, but was defeated by Mike McFadden.

U.S. Senate, Minnesota Republican Primary, 2014

Candidate	Vote %	Votes
Mike McFadden	71.7%	129,601
Jim Abeler	14.8%	26,714
David Carlson	9.1%	16,449
Patrick Munro	2.8%	5,058
Ole Savior	1.6%	2,840
Total Votes		180,662
Source: Minnesota Secretary of State

Campaign themes

2024

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2022

Ole Savior did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.

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Ole Savior campaign contribution history

Year	Office	Status	Contributions	Expenditures
2024*	U.S. Senate Minnesota	Lost primary	$0	N/A**
2022	Governor of Minnesota	Lost primary	$6,000	$4,700
Grand total			$6,000	$4,700
Sources: OpenSecrets,  Federal Elections Commission ***This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
* Data from this year may not be complete
** Data on expenditures is not available for this election cycle
Note: Totals above reflect only available data.

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Minnesota's current delegation to the United States Congress

Senators

Amy Klobuchar (D)

Tina Smith (D)

Representatives

District 1

Brad Finstad (R)

District 2

Angie Craig (D)

District 3

Dean Phillips (D)

District 4

Betty McCollum (D)

District 5

Ilhan Omar (D)

District 6

Tom Emmer (R)

District 7

Michelle Fischbach (R)

District 8

Pete Stauber (R)

Democratic Party (6)

Republican Party (4)