North Dakota

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Statewide executives

Kelly Armstrong

R Governor

Term 2024–2028

Michelle Strinden

R Lieutenant Governor

Drew Wrigley

Michael Howe

State supreme court: North Dakota Supreme Court

Nonpartisan election · Term: 10 years · 5 sitting justices. Voters elect the justices; no party label appears on the ballot.

Lisa Fair McEvers

Chief Justice

Party as listed: Nonpartisan

Took office: January 1, 2014

Appointed by Jack Dalrymple (R)

Photo: Ballotpedia

Douglas Bahr

Justice

Party as listed: Nonpartisan

Took office: February 1, 2023

Appointed by Doug Burgum (R)

Mark Friese

Justice

Party as listed: Nonpartisan

Took office: March 9, 2026

Appointed by Kelly Armstrong (R)

Jon Jay Jensen

Justice

Party as listed: Nonpartisan

Took office: 2017

Appointed by Doug Burgum (R)

Photo: Ballotpedia

Jerod Tufte

Justice

Party as listed: Nonpartisan

Took office: January 1, 2017

Elected

Photo: Ballotpedia

No public decision data available for this court.

Court page → · Source: Ballotpedia

Congressional delegation

Current delegation: 0 D · 3 R · scores are DW-NOMINATE (comparable across Congress)

U.S. Senate

Kevin Cramer

John Hoeven

U.S. House

Julie Fedorchak

R ND At-large

+0.611

State legislature

North Dakota Senate 47 members · 42 R · 5 D open in Rankings →

998 roll calls (427 contested, used for scores), 2025-01-10 to 2026-09-04; sessions: 69th Legislative Assembly (2025-26)

#	Name	Party	District	Score (liberal → conservative)	Party unity	Votes
1	Kathy Hogan	D	21	-0.604	97.0%	997
2	Ryan Braunberger	D	10	-0.533	97.5%	997
3	Judy Lee	R	13	-0.509	92.3%	997
4	Tim Mathern	D	11	-0.489	97.3%	997
5	Dean Rummel	R	37	-0.484	93.3%	997
6	Kristin Roers	R	27	-0.453	93.0%	997
7	Richard Marcellais	D	9	-0.400	96.2%	997
8	Michelle Axtman	R	7	-0.398	95.2%	997
9	Jeff Barta	R	43	-0.383	94.8%	997
10	Brad Bekkedahl	R	1	-0.375	94.2%	997
11	Dale Patten	R	26	-0.375	94.8%	997
12	Dick Dever	R	32	-0.336	94.5%	997
13	Greg Kessel	R	39	-0.323	95.4%	997
14	Ron Sorvaag	R	45	-0.314	96.2%	997
15	Kyle Davison	R	41	-0.298	92.5%	997
16	Jerry Klein	R	14	-0.296	93.5%	997
17	Robert Erbele	R	28	-0.260	95.7%	997
18	Randy Burckhard	R	5	-0.237	94.5%	997
19	Mark Weber	R	22	-0.229	93.2%	997
20	Cole Conley	R	12	-0.221	95.3%	997
21	Jonathan Sickler	R	17	-0.201	94.0%	997
22	Sean Cleary	R	35	-0.189	90.2%	997
23	Scott Meyer	R	18	-0.153	94.0%	997
24	Don Schaible	R	31	-0.134	94.2%	997
25	Terry Wanzek	R	29	-0.126	95.6%	997
26	Mike Dwyer	R	47	-0.119	94.8%	997
27	Diane Larson	R	30	-0.009	93.7%	997
28	David Hogue	R	38	+0.007	94.6%	997
29	Paul Thomas	R	6	+0.033	93.1%	997
30	Randy Lemm	R	20	+0.073	95.3%	997
31	Claire Cory	R	42	+0.129	91.2%	997
32	Mike Wobbema	R	24	+0.307	93.8%	997
33	Larry Luick	R	25	+0.311	92.0%	997
34	Justin Gerhardt	R	34	+0.351	90.8%	997
35	David Clemens	R	16	+0.385	91.6%	997
36	Jose Castaneda	R	40	+0.446	91.5%	997
37	Janne Myrdal	R	19	+0.455	90.9%	997
38	Desiree Van Oosting	R	36	+0.490	91.6%	997
39	Kent Weston	R	15	+0.540	92.4%	997
40	Bob Paulson	R	3	+0.584	92.1%	997
41	Todd Beard	R	23	+0.597	89.6%	997
42	Chuck Walen	R	4	+0.619	89.9%	997
43	Michelle Powers	R	46	+0.635	87.7%	997
44	Mark Enget	R	2	+0.711	87.6%	997
45	Keith Boehm	R	33	+0.775	88.2%	997
46	Jeff Magrum	R	8	+1.000	66.3%	997
—	Jamie Selzler not ranked	D	44	—	—	0

North Dakota House 94 members · 83 R · 11 D open in Rankings →

1171 roll calls (751 contested, used for scores), 2025-01-10 to 2026-09-04; sessions: 69th Legislative Assembly (2025-26)

#	Name	Party	District	Score (liberal → conservative)	Party unity	Votes
1	Austin Foss	D	44	-0.468	96.2%	1170
2	Karla Rose Hanson	D	44	-0.449	95.5%	1170
3	Zac Ista	D	43	-0.441	96.7%	1170
4	Alisa Mitskog	D	25	-0.438	92.9%	1170
5	Jonathan Warrey	R	22	-0.417	92.5%	1170
6	Mitch Ostlie	R	12	-0.414	90.8%	1170
7	Mary Schneider	D	21	-0.413	97.4%	1170
8	Gretchen Dobervich	D	11	-0.412	97.1%	1170
9	Mike Beltz	R	20	-0.412	92.5%	1170
10	LaurieBeth Hager	D	21	-0.410	95.1%	1170
11	Mike Nathe	R	30	-0.407	92.0%	1170
12	Mark Sanford	R	17	-0.396	92.7%	1170
13	David Richter	R	1	-0.395	92.4%	1170
14	Steve Swiontek	R	10	-0.388	93.5%	1170
15	Donald Longmuir	R	2	-0.387	92.4%	1170
16	Eric Murphy	R	43	-0.387	88.3%	1170
17	Jayme Davis	D	9	-0.381	96.5%	1170
18	Jon Nelson	R	14	-0.378	88.4%	1170
19	Bob Martinson	R	35	-0.374	92.3%	1170
20	Collette Brown	D	9	-0.371	92.9%	1170
21	Jim Jonas	R	13	-0.358	93.5%	1170
22	Karen Grindberg	R	41	-0.357	94.5%	1170
23	Greg Stemen	R	27	-0.356	94.1%	1170
24	Jim Grueneich	R	28	-0.354	92.7%	1170
25	Dick Anderson	R	6	-0.348	93.2%	1170
26	Lisa Finley-DeVille	D	4A	-0.341	95.6%	1170
27	Glenn Bosch	R	30	-0.340	90.9%	1170
28	Scott Wagner	R	45	-0.340	93.9%	1170
29	Patrick Hatlestad	R	1	-0.335	94.6%	1170
30	Robin Weisz	R	14	-0.326	92.5%	1170
31	Bert Anderson	R	2	-0.325	93.3%	1170
32	Karen Karls	R	35	-0.322	92.5%	1170
33	Todd Porter	R	34	-0.321	91.9%	1170
34	Larry Klemin	R	47	-0.314	93.9%	1170
35	Mike Lefor	R	37	-0.313	94.7%	1170
36	Dave Monson	R	19	-0.307	91.2%	1170
37	Mike Brandenburg	R	28	-0.305	93.6%	1170
38	Bernie Satrom	R	12	-0.289	92.5%	1170
39	Pat Heinert	R	32	-0.285	92.5%	1170
40	Austen Schauer	R	13	-0.280	91.9%	1170
41	Jason Dockter	R	7	-0.258	94.9%	1170
42	Mike Berg	R	8	-0.255	93.6%	1170
43	Anna Novak	R	33	-0.233	95.1%	1170
44	Craig Headland	R	29	-0.231	91.9%	1170
45	Clayton Fegley	R	4B	-0.212	92.5%	1170
46	Don Vigesaa	R	29	-0.178	93.3%	1170
47	Carrie McLeod	R	45	-0.164	92.3%	1170
48	Dwight Kiefert	R	24	-0.162	95.0%	1170
49	Keith Kempenich	R	39	-0.127	94.2%	1170
50	Jay Fisher	R	5	-0.103	94.1%	1170
51	Lisa Meier	R	32	-0.074	93.3%	1170
52	Scott Louser	R	5	-0.068	92.7%	1170
53	Landon Bahl	R	17	+0.009	88.9%	1170
54	Mike Motschenbacher	R	47	+0.022	92.4%	1170
55	Dan Vollmer	R	6	+0.039	88.0%	1170
56	Matt Ruby	R	40	+0.106	90.9%	1170
57	Ty Dressler	R	36	+0.172	89.4%	1170
58	Bill Tveit	R	33	+0.176	89.6%	1170
59	Steve Vetter	R	18	+0.226	86.5%	1170
60	Dori Hauck	R	36	+0.238	87.4%	1170
61	Vicky Steiner	R	37	+0.249	86.4%	1170
62	Nathan Toman	R	34	+0.266	85.9%	1170
63	Jorin Johnson	R	41	+0.283	86.2%	1170
64	Dan Ruby	R	38	+0.285	85.7%	1170
65	Kathy Frelich	R	15	+0.296	87.8%	1170
66	Karen Anderson	R	19	+0.309	86.5%	1170
67	Nels Christianson	R	18	+0.426	83.0%	1170
68	Macy Bolinske	R	40	+0.431	85.7%	1170
69	Jared Hendrix	R	10	+0.465	83.9%	1170
70	Karen Rohr	R	31	+0.470	82.3%	1170
71	Andrew Marschall	R	16	+0.477	85.1%	1170
72	Dawson Holle	R	31	+0.531	82.2%	1170
73	Nico Rios	R	23	+0.561	78.7%	1170
74	SuAnn Olson	R	8	+0.580	82.0%	1170
75	Roger Maki	R	26	+0.597	79.5%	1170
76	Ben Koppelman	R	16	+0.609	81.7%	1170
77	Jim Kasper	R	46	+0.624	78.2%	1170
78	Mike Schatz	R	39	+0.662	76.9%	1170
79	Matt Heilman	R	7	+0.712	76.7%	1170
80	Doug Osowski	R	42	+0.729	76.8%	1170
81	Dan Johnston	R	24	+0.738	75.2%	1170
82	Jeff Hoverson	R	3	+0.840	70.2%	1170
83	Christina Wolff	R	38	+0.864	66.5%	1170
84	Dennis Nehring	R	23	+0.880	68.3%	1170
85	Lori VanWinkle	R	3	+0.909	70.2%	1170
86	Desiree Morton	R	46	+0.938	70.3%	1170
87	Donna Henderson	R	15	+1.000	61.8%	1170
—	Adam Goldwyn not ranked	D	11	—	—	0
—	Brandy Pyle not ranked	R	22	—	—	0
—	Dave Rustebakke not ranked	R	20	—	—	0
—	Dustin McNally not ranked	R	42	—	—	0
—	Kathy Skroch not ranked	R	25	—	—	0
—	Kelby Timmons not ranked	R	26	—	—	0
—	T.J. Brown not ranked	R	27	—	—	0