This was the first election for Secretary of State with two women nominees.
Secretary of State Holm was reelected to his fifth of 16 terms in his rematch against his chief 1922 and 1924 opponent, Stageberg.
This was the last of three nominations for the office for Stageberg, a resident of Red Wing and "Mother of the Farmer-Labor Party." She would later run as the Progressive nominee for Lieutenant Governor in 1950.
Carpenter, a home economist, was the daughter of former Minneapolis Mayor J.C. Haynes and one of the 'voices' of Betty Crocker in print and in person. Carpenter was the first woman nominated for the office of Secretary of State by the Democrats in Minnesota history. She was also the Democratic nominee for Lieutenant Governor in 1932.