Minnesota State Representative District 44B
State House District 44B; Minnesota
My vote power
High
Election date
November 3, 2026 · General election
How do we calculate my vote power?
What goes into the rating: Representation: how much weight one vote carries here compared with a statewide vote — the smaller the district, the more each vote counts. Decisiveness: how likely this race is to be close, based on past results or current analyst ratings, plus the number of candidates.
Representation: High · 72 out of 100
This district is a small slice of its state, so each vote here carries much more weight than a vote in a statewide race. About 43,634 people live here.
Show the representation math
score = 50 + 50 × ln(state population ÷ this district's) ÷ ln(50,000) = 50 + 50 × ln(5,739,445 ÷ 43,634) ÷ ln(50,000) = 72.55, measured against a statewide vote in MN (grades: 66+ high, 33+ normal, otherwise low; a statewide race is the 50 baseline)
Decisiveness: Unknown
No analyst ratings or past results for this contest yet.
High representation → My vote power: High.
Some data is missing, so this rating is based on partial information and capped at "High".
About this office
- Voting on how much you pay in state taxes
- Voting on how much money your local public schools get
- Voting on which roads and highways get built or repaired
Affects: AI Regulation, Healthcare Affordability, Environment and Public Health,
Candidates
Democratic-Farmer-Labor · Incumbent · declared
Airline employee from North St. Paul with a political science degree from Luther College. First elected in 2004 and now in his eleventh term, he is the Democratic-Farmer-Labor lead on the pensions commission.
Records: Public Safety and Crime Control 1 for
Independent · declared
Navy veteran who served from 2001 to 2008 and was born in Minneapolis, running as an independent in District 44B, which covers North St. Paul, Maplewood and Oakdale.
Sources: candidates.sos.mn.gov2 · sos.mn.gov