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)

1

Mayor

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Julia Hamann Mayor Winner 8,118 votes · 51.08% Independent Minnesota Secretary of State
Najwa Massad Mayor Concede 7,694 votes · 48.41% Independent Minnesota Secretary of State
2

Council Member — Ward 1

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Michael McLaughlin acclaimed Council Member Winner 3,077 votes · 99.35% Independent Ward 1 Minnesota Secretary of State
3

Council Member — Ward 3

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Don Friend Council Member Winner 843 votes · 50.51% Independent Ward 3 Minnesota Secretary of State
Jacob Bases Council Member Concede 813 votes · 48.71% Independent Ward 3 Minnesota Secretary of State
4

Council Member — Ward 5

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Bryan Schneider Council Member Concede 992 votes · 42.36% Independent Ward 5 Minnesota Secretary of State
Jessica Hatanpa Council Member Winner 1,339 votes · 57.17% Independent Ward 5 Minnesota Secretary of State
5

Governor

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Tim Walz Elected Governor Democratic Minnesota Legislative Reference Library
Amy Klobuchar Elected U.S. Senator → Winner 1,569,094 votes · 55.47% for Governor Democratic @unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json)
Lisa Demuth Governor Concede 1,205,788 votes · 42.63% Republican Minnesota Secretary of State
Steven Young Governor Concede 51,384 votes · 1.82% Green Minnesota Secretary of State
6

Lieutenant Governor

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Ben Schierer Lieutenant Governor Winner 1,569,094 votes · 55.47% Democratic Minnesota Secretary of State
Jane Kirby Lieutenant Governor Concede 51,384 votes · 1.82% Green Minnesota Secretary of State
Ryan Wilson Lieutenant Governor Concede 1,205,788 votes · 42.63% Republican Minnesota Secretary of State
7

State Representative — HD-18B

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Luke Frederick ✉️ Elected acclaimed State Representative → Winner 12,114 votes · 96.06% Democratic Minnesota House of Representatives
8

State Senator — SD-18

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Nick A. Frentz ✉️ Elected State Senator → Winner 21,992 votes · 59.42% Democratic Minnesota Senate
Jackie Henry State Senator Concede 14,992 votes · 40.5% Republican Minnesota Secretary of State
9

U.S. Senator

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Tina Smith Elected U.S. Senator Democratic @unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json)
Marisa Simonetti U.S. Senator Concede 41,549 votes · 1.47% Independent Minnesota Secretary of State
Michele Tafoya U.S. Senator Concede 1,232,677 votes · 43.55% Republican Minnesota Secretary of State
Peggy Flanagan U.S. Senator Winner 1,520,295 votes · 53.71% Democratic Minnesota Secretary of State
Rebecca Whiting U.S. Senator Concede 32,476 votes · 1.15% Libertarian Minnesota Secretary of State
10

U.S. Representative — MN-1

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Brad Finstad Elected U.S. Representative → Running Republican U.S. House of Representatives
Jake Johnson U.S. Representative Running Democratic Minnesota Secretary of State
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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.
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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.