FEC WINNER INDICATOR
Tina Smith
1,370,540 votes · 52.97%
- Final vote total
- 2,587,356
- Final margin
- 274,763
- Decision stage
- General election
- Certification
- Official historical result
Official certified result · November 6, 2018
2018 Minnesota Special U.S. Senate Election Results.
The FEC publication records Tina Smith as the winner. These are historical certified totals—not an election-night projection or race call.
Minnesota U.S. Senate — Unexpired TermGeneral election9 general candidatesSource: FEC
Official candidate totals
General election results
Fusion-party lines are combined only when the official publication reports the same named candidate on multiple party lines. Generic write-in, blank, invalid, and other non-person rows remain separate below.
| Candidate | Party label(s) | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tina SmithIncumbentWinner | DFL | 1,370,540 | 52.97% |
| Karin Housley | R | 1,095,777 | 42.35% |
| Sarah Wellington | LMN | 95,614 | 3.7% |
| Jerry Trooien | UN | 24,324 | 0.94% |
| Scattered | W | 1,089 | 0.04% |
| Stephen A. Emery | W | 6 | 0.0% |
| Mike Kuitu | W | 3 | 0.0% |
| Tim Nelson | W | 2 | 0.0% |
| Kevin Hartnett O'Connor | W | 1 | 0.0% |
Election.org calculation: the final margin is 274,763 votes, subtracting the second-highest published final total from the highest. The official publication does not publish this page's margin field separately.
Show primary and nomination results (9 candidates)
Tina SmithIncumbent
DFL primary433,70576.06%
R primary186,38461.95%
DFL primary18,8973.31%
R primary107,10235.6%
DFL primary5,0410.88%
DFL primary17,8253.13%
DFL primary16,5292.9%
R primary7,3752.45%
DFL primary78,19313.71%
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Are these official?
Yes. This is the FEC's biennial Federal Elections 2018 publication, compiled from results officially reported by state and territory election offices.
Does Election.org call races?
No. We preserve the FEC winner indicator. Neither is an election-night projection.
Why can totals differ by column?
Primaries, general elections, runoffs, fusion-party lines, and ranked-choice rounds are distinct stages. Election.org does not collapse them.
What does a blank mean?
The official workbook did not publish a value for that candidate and stage. Blank values remain blank instead of becoming zero.