Governor, 1954 Election

General

Date:	November 2, 1954
Cycle:	1954
Office:	Governor
State:	Minnesota
District:	Statewide

Candidate	Gender	Party	Votes	Percent	Margin
Orville Freeman	Man	Democratic-Farmer-Labor	607,099	52.73	+5.93
C. Elmer Anderson Incumbent	Man	Republican	538,865	46.80
Ross Schelin	Man	Industrial Government	5,453	0.47

Governor Anderson was the third Minnesota governor to lose a general election joining Democratic-People’s Governor John Lind in 1900 and Farmer-Laborite Elmer Benson in 1938.

Freeman was a Minneapolis attorney, former chairman of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (1948-1950), and DFL gubernatorial nominee in 1952.

Schelin was a machine operator from Culver and nominated by petition.

Related Reports

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Sources

The Legislative Manual of the State of Minnesota, 1955 (p. 534).