Secretary of State Holm was reelected to his second of 16 terms.
Stageberg, a prohibitionist from Red Wing, was the wife of 1918 National Party gubernatorial nominee Olaf Stageberg. She became known as the "Mother of the Farmer-Labor Party" and was president of Red Wing's Women's Christian Temperance Union. She would also receive the Farmer-Labor nomination for the office in 1924 and 1928 and the Progressive nomination for Lieutenant Governor in 1950. Stageberg was the first woman to appear on a general election ballot for Secretary of State in Minnesota.
Swanson was a reporter from Fairmont and a newspaperman for the Fairmont Sentinel. He was also a former Secret Service agent for the U.S. Treasury.