The election for this seat was for a six-year term.
Lund's loss was the 13th defeat by a Railroad / Railroad and Warehouse Commissioner at the ballot box following Anti-Monopolist Alonzo Edgerton in 1875, Republican-turned-Prohibitionist William Marshall in 1881, Democratic-People's nominees Peter Rindal and Thomas Knox in 1900, Republican Christian Laurisch in 1934, Republican Frank Matson in 1936, Farmer-Laborite Harold Atwood in 1938, Farmer-Laborite Charles Munn in 1940, Republican Rollin Johnson in the 1944 GOP primary and 1948 general election, Republican Elling Knutson in the 1952 GOP primary, and Clifford Peterson in the 1954 DFL primary.
Anderson was a resident of Bloomington and former state Young DFL chairman.