| Election Name: | 2024 North Dakota Senate election |
| Country: | North Dakota |
| Type: | legislative |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 2022 North Dakota Senate election |
| Previous Year: | 2022 |
| Next Election: | 2026 North Dakota Senate election |
| Next Year: | 2026 |
| Seats For Election: | 25 of North Dakota's 47 Senate seats in the North Dakota Senate. |
| Leader1: | Donald Schaible |
| Party1: | North Dakota Republican Party |
| Leader Since1: | January 3, 2023 |
| Leaders Seat1: | 31st district |
| Seats Before1: | 43 |
| Seats After1: | 42 |
| Seat Change1: | 1 |
| Leader2: | Kathy Hogan |
| Party2: | North Dakota Democratic–Nonpartisan League Party |
| Leader Since2: | January 3, 2023 |
| Leaders Seat2: | 21st district |
| Seats Before2: | 4 |
| Seats After2: | 5 |
| Seat Change2: | 1 |
| Map Size: | 450px |
| President pro tempore | |
| Before Election: | Donald Schaible |
| Before Party: | Republican Party (United States) |
| After Election: | TBD |
The 2024 North Dakota Senate election took place on November 5, 2024, as part of the 2024 United States elections.[1] Senators serve four-year terms. Elections are staggered such that half the senate districts have elections every two years (even-numbered seats are up on presidential election years.)
In the 2022 North Dakota elections, a ballot measure created term limits of eight years in the North Dakota Senate, which was put into effect starting January 2023.[2] However, no candidate up for election will be affected by the term limits.[3]
In January of 2024, Federal District Court Judge Peter Welte required North Dakota to substantially alter Legislative District 9 in response to a lawsuit by the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians and the Spirit Lake Tribe. The tribes alleged that the House of Representatives districts established by the North Dakota legislature violated the voting rights act by preventing members of the Spirit Lake Tribe from electing a candidate of their choice to the legislature. The court-ordered new District 9, which the Turtle Mountain and Spirit Lake tribes had proposed, includes both the Turtle Mountain and Spirit Lake reservations. [4]
| Party | Candidates | Votes | % | Seats | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Before | Up | Won | After | +/– | |||||
| Republican | 24 | 134,123 | 75.34 | 43 | 23 | 22 | 42 | 1 | |
| Democratic–NPL | 15 | 40,397 | 22.69 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | |
| Independents | 1 | 1,525 | 0.86 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Write-in | 1,971 | 1.11 | — | ||||||
| Total | 178,016 | 100% | 47 | 25 | 47 | ||||
In the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump won the most votes in 41 of North Dakota's State Senate districts and Democrat Joe Biden won 6. Out of the 24 districts with elections in 2024, Donald Trump won the most votes in 20 districts and Joe Biden won the most votes in 4. There are 2 Biden-won districts which Republicans represented going into the 2024 North Dakota Senate election: District 9 (Biden + 21%) and Fargo-based District 46 (Biden + 0.2%).
| District | Incumbent | Party | First elected | Result | General election | Primary election candidates | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | David Rust | Republican | 2014 | Republican hold. | nowrap | nowrap | |||||
| 4 | Jordan Kannianen | Republican | 2016 | Republican hold. | nowrap | nowrap | |||||
| 6 | Shawn Vedaa | Republican | 2016 | Republican hold. | nowrap | nowrap | |||||
| 8 | Jeffery Magrum | Republican | 2016 | Incumbent re-elected. | nowrap | nowrap | |||||
| 9 | Kent Weston(redistricted) | Republican | 2022 | Incumbent defeated. Democratic–NPL gain. | nowrap | nowrap | |||||
| 10 | Ryan Braunberger | Democratic-NPL | 2022 | Incumbent re-elected. | nowrap | nowrap | |||||
| 12 | Cole Conley | Republican | 2020 | Incumbent re-elected. | nowrap | nowrap | |||||
| 14 | Jerry Klein | Republican | 1996 | Incumbent re-elected. | nowrap | nowrap | |||||
| 15 | Judy Estenson(redistricted) | Republican | 2022 | Incumbent re-elected. | nowrap | nowrap | |||||
| 16 | David Clemens | Republican | 2016 | Incumbent re-elected. | nowrap | nowrap | |||||
| 18 | Scott Meyer | Republican | 2016 | Incumbent re-elected. | nowrap | nowrap | |||||
| 20 | Randy Lemm | Republican | 2016 | Incumbent re-elected. | nowrap | nowrap | |||||
| 22 | Mark Weber | Republican | 2020 | Incumbent re-elected. | nowrap | nowrap | |||||
| 24 | Michael Wobbema | Republican | 2020 | Incumbent re-elected. | nowrap | nowrap | |||||
| 26 | Dale Patten | Republican | 2018 | Incumbent re-elected. | nowrap | nowrap | |||||
| 28 | Robert Erbele | Republican | 2000 | Incumbeng re-elected. | nowrap | nowrap | |||||
| 30 | Diane Larson | Republican | 2020 | Incumbent re-elected. | nowrap | nowrap | |||||
| 32 | Dick Dever | Republican | 2016 | Incumbent re-elected. | nowrap | nowrap | |||||
| 34 | Justin Gerhardt | Republican | (appointed) | Incumbent re-elected. | nowrap | nowrap | |||||
| 36 | Jay Elkin | Republican | 2018 | Republican hold. | nowrap | nowrap | |||||
| 38 | David Hogue | Republican | 2008 | Incumbent re-elected. | nowrap | nowrap | |||||
| 40 | Karen Krebsbach | Republican | 1988 | Republican hold. | nowrap | nowrap | |||||
| 42 | Curt Kreun | Republican | 2016 | Republican hold. | nowrap | nowrap | |||||
| 44 | Merrill Piepkorn | Democratic–NPL | 2016 | Democratic–NPL hold. | nowrap | nowrap | |||||
| 46 | Jim Roers | Republican | 2016 | Republican hold. | nowrap | nowrap |
General election results source:[13]
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