Secretary of State Growe was reelected to a fourth term.
Koenig was a media consultant from Sartell. Koenig later pled guilty to a misdeamor charge for co-mingling campaign funds and the Ethical Practices Board delivered fines against him for two political action committee violations. He was also an Independent-Republican candidate for Auditor in 1990 and 1994, the Independence Party nominee for the SD 16 special election in December 1994, a Republican candidate for SD 12 in 1996, and a Republican candidate for Secretary of State in 1998.