Roseau County

Government and politics

Roseau County is less reliably Republican in senatorial and gubernatorial elections. The Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party has won two senatorial elections here since 1992. Independents do not perform as well in Roseau County as in the rest of Minnesota. In the 1998 gubernatorial election, Norm Coleman's best performance in Minnesota was in Roseau County, where he won with almost 50% of the vote.