Minnesota's 4th congressional district

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Minnesota's 4th congressional district
	Minnesota's 4th congressional district - since January 3, 2013.
	Betty McCollum; D–Saint Paul
Area	202[1] sq mi (520 km2)
Distribution	97.21% urban[2]; 2.79% rural;
Population (2018 est.)	717,766[3]
Median income	$71,503[4]
Ethnicity	66% white[5]; 13% Asian; 10% black; 7% Hispanic; 4% other; 0% Native American;
Cook PVI	D+14[6]

Minnesota's 4th congressional district covers nearly all of Ramsey County, and part of Washington County. It includes all of St. Paul and most of its suburbs. The district is solidly Democratic with a CPVI of D + 14.[6] It is currently represented by Betty McCollum, of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL). The DFL has held the seat without interruption since 1949, and all but one term (1947-9) since the merger of the Democratic and Farmer-Labor Parties.

List of representatives

Representative	Party	Years	Congress	Notes	Location
District created		March 4, 1883		Created after the 1880 U.S. Census	Hennepin (Minneapolis)
William Drew Washburn	Republican	March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1885	48th	Lost renomination
John Bachop Gilfillan	Republican	March 4, 1885 – March 3, 1887	49th	Lost reelection
Edmund Rice	Democratic	March 4, 1887 – March 3, 1889	50th	Lost reelection
Samuel Prather Snider	Republican	March 4, 1889 – March 3, 1891	51st	Lost reelection
James Nathan Castle	Democratic	March 4, 1891 – March 3, 1893	52nd	Lost reelection	Chisago Isanti Kannebec Ramsey Washington
Andrew Robert Kiefer	Republican	March 4, 1893 – March 3, 1897	53rd 54th	Retired	Chisago Isanti Kannebec Ramsey Washington
Frederick Clement Stevens	Republican	March 4, 1897 – March 3, 1915	55th 56th 57th 58th 59th 60th 61st 62nd 63rd	Lost reelection	Chisago Ramsey Washington
Carl Chester Van Dyke	Democratic	March 4, 1915 – May 20, 1919	64th 65th 66th	Died	Ramsey
	Vacant	May 20, 1919 – July 1, 1919
Oscar Edward Keller	Republican	July 1, 1919 – March 3, 1927	66th 67th 68th 69th	Lost renomination
Melvin Joseph Maas	Republican	March 4, 1927 – March 3, 1933	70th 71st 72nd	Lost reelection
	March 4, 1933 – January 3, 1935	District inactive, all representatives elected At-large on a general ticket
Melvin Joseph Maas	Republican	January 3, 1935 – January 3, 1945	74th 75th 76th 77th 78th	Lost reelection	Ramsey
Frank Thomas Starkey	DFL	January 3, 1945 – January 3, 1947	79th	Lost reelection
Edward James Devitt	Republican	January 3, 1947 – January 3, 1949	80th	Lost reelection
Eugene Joseph McCarthy	DFL	January 3, 1949 – January 3, 1959	81st 82nd 83rd 84th 85th	Ran for U.S. Senate (successful)
Joseph Edward Karth	DFL	January 3, 1959 – January 3, 1977	86th 87th 88th 89th 90th 91st 92nd 93rd 94th	Retired	Ramsey Washington
Bruce Frank Vento	DFL	January 3, 1977 – October 10, 2000	95th 96th 97th 98th 99th 100th 101st 102nd 103rd 104th 105th 106th	Died
	Vacant	October 10, 2000 - January 3, 2001
Betty Louise McCollum	DFL	January 3, 2001 – present	107th 108th 109th 110th 111th 112th 113th 114th 115th 116th	Incumbent

Elections

Year	Democratic	Republican	Other
1918	√ Carl Van Dyke: 62.0%	Walter Mallory: 38.0%
1920	Thomas J. Brady: 34.2%	√ Oscar Keller: 58.7% Carl W. Cummins: 7.1%
1922	Paul E. Doty: 35.6%	√ Oscar Keller: 58.7%	O. J. McCartney (Independent): 5.7%
1924	Dan W. Lawler: 36.8%	√ Oscar Keller: 47.7%	Julius F. Emme (Farmer-Labor) 15.4%
1926	Charles C. Kolars: 15.4%	√ Melvin Maas: 54.3%	Thomas V. Sullivan (Farmer-Labor) 41.0%
1928	John P. J. Dolan: 28.6%	√ Melvin Maas: 36%	Howard Y. Williams (Farmer-Labor): 21.0% Fred A. Snyder (Independent): 14.0% Maurice Powers (Independent): 0.5%
1930	Frank Munger: 9.0%	√ Melvin Maas: 66.5%	Claus V. Hammerstrom (Farmer-Labor): 22.1% A. W. Anderson (Independent): 2.3%
1932	(Congress elected on a general ticket after state legislature failed to redraw districts after 1930 census)
1934	John J. McDonough: 23.4%	√ Melvin Maas: 36.8%	A. E. Smith (Farmer-Labor): 29.4% Charles J. Andre (Independent): 9.9% Thomas Tracy (Independent): 0.5%
1936	A. B. C. Doherty: 22.9%	√ Melvin Maas: 38.3%	Howard Y. Williams (Farmer-Labor): 38.0% Otis A. Luce (Independent): 0.7%
1938	A. B. C. Doherty: 11.1%	√ Melvin Maas: 53.1%	Howard Y. Williams (Farmer-Labor): 35.8%
1940	Willard J. Moran: 12.9%	√ Melvin Maas: 58.8%	George L. Siegel (Farmer-Labor): 28.2%
1942	Edward K. Delaney: 9.8%	√ Melvin Maas: 65.1%	William Mahoney (Farmer-Labor): 24.2%; Rose Tillotson (Communist Party USA) 0.9%
1944	√ Frank Starkey: 51.8%	Melvin Maas: 48.2%
1946	Frank Starkey: 47.2%	√ Edward Devitt: 51.5%	Dorothy Schultz (Independent): 1.3%
1948	√ Eugene McCarthy: 59.4%	Edward Devitt: 40.6%
1950	√ Eugene McCarthy: 60.4%	Ward Fleming: 39.6%
1952	√ Eugene McCarthy: 61.7%	Roger G. Kennedy: 38.3%
1954	√ Eugene McCarthy: 63.0%	Richard C. Hansen: 37.0%
1956	√ Eugene McCarthy: 64.1%	Edward C. Slettedahl: 35.9%
1958	√ Joseph Karth: 56.4%	Frank S. Farrell: 43.6%
1960	√ Joseph Karth: 61.0%	Joseph J. Mitchell: 39.0%
1962	√ Joseph Karth: 59.5%	Harry Strong: 40.5%
1964	√ Joseph Karth: 72.3%	John M. Drexler: 27.1%	Write-in: 0.7%
1966	√ Joseph Karth: 53.4%	Stephen Maxwell: 46.6%
1968	√ Joseph Karth: 61.3%	Emery Barrette: 38.7%
1970	√ Joseph Karth: 74.2%	Frank L. Loss:) 25.8%
1972	√ Joseph Karth: 72.4%	Steve Thompson: 27.6%
1974	√ Joseph Karth: 76.0%	Joseph A. Rheinberger: 24.0%
1976	√ Bruce Vento: 66.4%	Andrew Engebretson: 29.8%	Alan W. Uhl (Independent): 1.5% Thomas F. Piotrowski (Libertarian): 1.4% Ralph Schwartz (Socialist Workers): 0.9%
1978	√ Bruce Vento: 58.0%	John Berg: 42.0%
1980	√ Bruce Vento: 58.5%	John Berg: 40.5%	James Kendrick (Socialist Workers) 1.0%
1982	√ Bruce Vento: 73.2%	Bill James: 26.8%
1984	√ Bruce Vento: 73.5%	Mary Jane Rachner: 25.2%	Peter Brandli (Socialist Workers) 1.3%
1986	√ Bruce Vento: 72.9%	Harold Stassen 27.1%
1988	√ Bruce Vento: 72.4%	Ian Maitland: 26.8%	Natasha Terlexis (Socialist Workers) 0.7%
1990	√ Bruce Vento: 64.7%	Ian Maitland: 35.1%
1992	√ Bruce Vento: 57.6%	Ian Maitland: 37.6%	James Willess (Independent): 2.4% Dan R. Vacek (Grassroots) 1.6% Lynn Marvin Johnson (Natural Law) 1.3% Jo Rothenberg (Socialist Workers) 0.4%
1994	√ Bruce Vento: 54.7%	Dennis Newinski: 41.8%	Dan R. Vacek (Grassroots): 2.9%
1996	√ Bruce Vento: 57.02%	Dennis Newinski: 36.80%	Richard Gibbons (Reform): 3.64% Phil Willkie (Grassroots): 1.41% Dan Vacek (Grassroots): 1.05%
1998	√ Bruce Vento: 53.7%	Dennis Newinski: 39.8%	Dan R. Vacek (Legal Marijuana Now): 2.4% Carol Simmons Schulstad (Minnesota Taxpayers): 1.9% Michael A. Neitzel (Libertarian): 1.2% Heather Wood (Socialist Workers): 0.9%
2000	√ Betty McCollum: 48.04%	Linda Runbeck: 30.89%	Tom Foley (Independence): 20.59%; Nicholas Skrivanek (Constitution): 0.47%
2002	√ Betty McCollum: 62.22%	Clyde Billington: 33.91%	Steve J. Raskiewicz (Green): 3.75%
2004	√ Betty McCollum: 57.5%	Patrice Bataglia: 33.2%	Peter Vento (Independence): 9.2%
2006	√ Betty McCollum: 69.5%	Obi Sium: 30.2%
2008	√ Betty McCollum: 68.4%	Ed Matthews: 31.3%
2010	√ Betty McCollum: 59.2%	Teresa Collett: 34.7%	Steve Carlson (Independence): 6.1%
2012	√ Betty McCollum: 62.27%	Tony Hernandez: 31.51%	Steve Carlson (Independence): 6.07%
2014	√ Betty McCollum: 61.2%	Sharna Wahlgren: 32.9%	Dave Thomas (Independence): 5.8%; Write-ins: 0.1%
2016	√ Betty McCollum: 57.8%	Greg Ryan: 34.4%	Susan Pendergast Sindt (Legal Marijuana Now): 7.7%
2018	√ Betty McCollum: 66.0%	Greg Ryan: 29.7%	Susan Pendergast Sindt (Legal Marijuana Now): 4.2%

Election results from recent statewide races

Statewide election voting

Election results from statewide races			Political parties that won the district
Year	Office	Results
2000	President	Gore 57 - 37%	Democratic Party (United States)
2004	President	Kerry 62 - 37%	Democratic Party (United States)
2008	President	Obama 64 - 34%	Democratic Party (United States)
2012	President	Obama 63 - 36%	Democratic Party (United States)
2016	President	Clinton 62 - 31%	Democratic Party (United States)
2018	Senator	Klobuchar 70.7 - 26.0%	Democratic Party (United States)

Historical district boundaries

2003 - 2013

References

"Minnesota congressional districts by urban and rural population and land area" (PDF). US Census Bureau. 2000. Retrieved 2007-04-02.
Geography, US Census Bureau. "Congressional Districts Relationship Files (state-based)". www.census.gov. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
Bureau, Center for New Media & Promotion (CNMP), US Census. "My Congressional District". www.census.gov. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
https://www.census.gov/mycd/?st=27&cd=04
https://censusreporter.org/profiles/50000US2704-congressional-district-4-mn/
"Partisan Voting Index – Districts of the 115th Congress" (PDF). The Cook Political Report. April 7, 2017. Retrieved April 7, 2017.

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[1] "Minnesota congressional districts by urban and rural population and land area" (PDF). US Census Bureau. 2000. Retrieved 2007-04-02.

[2] Geography, US Census Bureau. "Congressional Districts Relationship Files (state-based)". www.census.gov. Retrieved 10 April 2018.

[3] Bureau, Center for New Media & Promotion (CNMP), US Census. "My Congressional District". www.census.gov. Retrieved 10 April 2018.

[4] ttps://www.census.gov/mycd/?st=27&cd=04

[5] ttps://censusreporter.org/profiles/50000US2704-congressional-district-4-mn/

[Cook-6] "Partisan Voting Index – Districts of the 115th Congress" (PDF). The Cook Political Report. April 7, 2017. Retrieved April 7, 2017.