Attorney General Humphrey was reelected to a second term and received the largest percentage of the vote in a contested race for the office in state history, eclipsing Republican Edward Young's 67.32 percent in 1904. Humphrey's 41.82-point victory margin was also the largest in a contested race for attorney general since statehood.
Freeman was an Eden Prairie attorney.
Grimmer was a physicist from White Bear Lake, co-founder of the Grassroots Party, Grassroots nominee for U.S. Senate in 1988, and nominee for Vice President in 1992. He was nominated by petition.