{
 "topic": "senate",
 "site": "electiondata.dev",
 "place": {
  "id": "us-nd",
  "name": "North Dakota",
  "level": "us-state",
  "parent": "usa",
  "path": "us/nd",
  "slug": "nd",
  "state": "nd",
  "state_name": "North Dakota",
  "state_id": "us-nd"
 },
 "question": "How did North Dakota vote for the Senate?",
 "answer": {
  "verdict": "Kevin Cramer (Republican) won by 32.9 points",
  "value": 32.9,
  "unit": " pts",
  "digits": 1,
  "label": "Senate, 2024: winner's margin",
  "lines": [
   "Kevin Cramer (Republican) 66.3%, Katrina Christiansen (Democrat) 33.4%",
   "364,327 votes for Senate candidates"
  ]
 },
 "as_of": "2024",
 "as_of_label": "2024",
 "charts": [
  {
   "id": "senate-margin",
   "title": "Every regular Senate election in North Dakota since 1976",
   "description": "16 regular elections; Democrats were ahead in 11 and Republicans in 5.",
   "indicator": "Democratic candidate's share of Senate votes minus the Republican's, points (regular elections; special elections are in the table)",
   "subtitle": "Democratic share minus Republican share, in points. Above the line: the Democrat got more votes.",
   "x": {
    "kind": "year"
   },
   "y": {
    "digits": 1,
    "unit": " pts",
    "format": "party-margin"
   },
   "layers": [
    {
     "type": "bars",
     "name": "Margin",
     "base": 0,
     "points": [
      [
       1976,
       25.545,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1982,
       28.792,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1986,
       0.733,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1988,
       20.39,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1992,
       20.129,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1994,
       15.966,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1998,
       27.997,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2000,
       22.746,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2004,
       36.56,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2006,
       39.298,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2010,
       -53.969,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2012,
       0.914,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2016,
       -61.51,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2018,
       -10.838,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2022,
       -31.432,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2024,
       -32.929,
       "rep"
      ]
     ],
     "legend": [
      {
       "label": "Democrat ahead",
       "cls": "dem"
      },
      {
       "label": "Republican ahead",
       "cls": "rep"
      }
     ]
    }
   ]
  }
 ],
 "limits": [
  "Statewide totals say nothing about who voted or why.",
  "Candidates with a party's support under another name (Minnesota's DFL, New York's fusion lines) are counted with that party, as the MIT data's simplified party does; independents stay independents."
 ],
 "method": "Each candidate's votes are summed over every ballot line; blank, over- and under-votes are left out. The margin is the winner's share of the votes minus the runner-up's. A runoff, where held, is the result.",
 "sources": [
  {
   "name": "electiondata.dev senate-results, version 2026-10-25.247421eda6",
   "url": "https://electiondata.dev/",
   "license": "CC0 1.0"
  },
  {
   "name": "MIT Election Data and Science Lab, U.S. Senate statewide 1976-2024",
   "url": "https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/PEJ5QU",
   "license": "CC0 1.0"
  }
 ],
 "check": {
  "races": [
   {
    "year": 1976,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 283062,
    "votes": {
     "Quentin N. Burdick": 175772,
     "Robert Stroup": 103466,
     "Clarence Haggard": 3824
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1982,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 262465,
    "votes": {
     "Quentin N. Burdick": 164873,
     "Gene Knorr": 89304,
     "Anna B. Bourgois": 8288
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1986,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 289013,
    "votes": {
     "Kent Conrad": 143932,
     "Mark Andrews": 141812,
     "Anna Belle Bourgois": 3269
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1988,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 289170,
    "votes": {
     "Quentin N. Burdick": 171899,
     "Earl Strinden": 112937,
     "Kenneth C. Gardner": 4334
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1992,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 303957,
    "votes": {
     "Byron L. Dorgan": 179347,
     "Steve Sydness": 118162,
     "Tom Asbridge": 6448
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1994,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 236547,
    "votes": {
     "Kent Conrad": 137157,
     "Ben Clayburgh": 99390
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1998,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 213358,
    "votes": {
     "Byron L. Dorgan": 134747,
     "Donna Nalewaja": 75013,
     "Harley Mclain": 3598
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2000,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 287539,
    "votes": {
     "Kent Conrad": 176470,
     "Duane Sand": 111069
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2004,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 310696,
    "votes": {
     "Byron L. Dorgan": 212143,
     "Mike Liffrig": 98553
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2006,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 218152,
    "votes": {
     "Kent Conrad": 150146,
     "Dwight Grotberg": 64417,
     "Roland Riemers": 2194,
     "James Germalic": 1395
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2010,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 238534,
    "votes": {
     "John Hoeven": 181689,
     "Tracy Potter": 52955,
     "Keith J. Hanson": 3890
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2012,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 321144,
    "votes": {
     "Heidi Heitkamp": 161337,
     "Rick Berg": 158401
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2016,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 342501,
    "votes": {
     "John Hoeven": 268788,
     "Eliot Glassheim": 58116,
     "Robert N. Marquette": 10556,
     "James Germalic": 4675
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2018,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 326138,
    "votes": {
     "Kevin Cramer": 179720,
     "Heidi Heitkamp": 144376
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2022,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 240140,
    "votes": {
     "John Hoeven": 135474,
     "Katrina Christiansen": 59995,
     "Rick Becker": 44406,
     "Write-in": 265
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2024,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 364327,
    "votes": {
     "Kevin Cramer": 241569,
     "Katrina Christiansen": 121602
    }
   }
  ],
  "dataset": "senate-results",
  "version": "2026-10-25.247421eda6"
 },
 "table": {
  "title": "Every Senate race since 1976",
  "columns": [
   "Race",
   "Winner",
   "Runner-up",
   "Margin",
   "Votes"
  ],
  "num": [
   3,
   4
  ],
  "rows": [
   [
    "2024",
    "Kevin Cramer (R) 66.3%",
    "Katrina Christiansen (D) 33.4%",
    "32.9 pts",
    "364,327"
   ],
   [
    "2022",
    "John Hoeven (R) 56.4%",
    "Katrina Christiansen (D) 25.0%",
    "31.4 pts",
    "240,140"
   ],
   [
    "2018",
    "Kevin Cramer (R) 55.1%",
    "Heidi Heitkamp (D) 44.3%",
    "10.8 pts",
    "326,138"
   ],
   [
    "2016",
    "John Hoeven (R) 78.5%",
    "Eliot Glassheim (D) 17.0%",
    "61.5 pts",
    "342,501"
   ],
   [
    "2012",
    "Heidi Heitkamp (D) 50.2%",
    "Rick Berg (R) 49.3%",
    "0.9 pts",
    "321,144"
   ],
   [
    "2010",
    "John Hoeven (R) 76.2%",
    "Tracy Potter (D) 22.2%",
    "54.0 pts",
    "238,534"
   ],
   [
    "2006",
    "Kent Conrad (D) 68.8%",
    "Dwight Grotberg (R) 29.5%",
    "39.3 pts",
    "218,152"
   ],
   [
    "2004",
    "Byron L. Dorgan (D) 68.3%",
    "Mike Liffrig (R) 31.7%",
    "36.6 pts",
    "310,696"
   ],
   [
    "2000",
    "Kent Conrad (D) 61.4%",
    "Duane Sand (R) 38.6%",
    "22.7 pts",
    "287,539"
   ],
   [
    "1998",
    "Byron L. Dorgan (D) 63.2%",
    "Donna Nalewaja (R) 35.2%",
    "28.0 pts",
    "213,358"
   ],
   [
    "1994",
    "Kent Conrad (D) 58.0%",
    "Ben Clayburgh (R) 42.0%",
    "16.0 pts",
    "236,547"
   ],
   [
    "1992",
    "Byron L. Dorgan (D) 59.0%",
    "Steve Sydness (R) 38.9%",
    "20.1 pts",
    "303,957"
   ],
   [
    "1988",
    "Quentin N. Burdick (D) 59.4%",
    "Earl Strinden (R) 39.1%",
    "20.4 pts",
    "289,170"
   ],
   [
    "1986",
    "Kent Conrad (D) 49.8%",
    "Mark Andrews (R) 49.1%",
    "0.7 pts",
    "289,013"
   ],
   [
    "1982",
    "Quentin N. Burdick (D) 62.8%",
    "Gene Knorr (R) 34.0%",
    "28.8 pts",
    "262,465"
   ],
   [
    "1976",
    "Quentin N. Burdick (D) 62.1%",
    "Robert Stroup (R) 36.6%",
    "25.5 pts",
    "283,062"
   ]
  ]
 },
 "api": {
  "now": "/data/places/us-nd/senate.json",
  "source": "https://api.electiondata.dev/v1/senate-results/download/senate-results.csv",
  "source_label": "Every Senate race, every state, from electiondata.dev (live, no key)"
 },
 "generated_at": "2026-10-26T20:05:12+00:00"
}