Minnesota's 3rd congressional district

Minnesota's 3rd congressional district
	Minnesota's 3rd congressional district - since January 3, 2013.
	Dean Phillips; D–Deephaven
Area	468 sq mi (1,210 km2)
Distribution	95.57% urban; 4.43% rural;
Population (2016)	709,906
Median income	$89,442
Ethnicity	80% White; 8.25% Black; 7.03% Asian; 4.84% Hispanic; 0.33% Native American;
Cook PVI	D+1

Minnesota's 3rd congressional district encompasses the suburbs of Hennepin County to the north, west, and south of Minneapolis. With blue collar Brooklyn Park and Coon Rapids to the north-east, middle-income Bloomington to the south, and higher-income Eden Prairie, Edina, Maple Grove, Plymouth, Minnetonka, and Wayzata to the West with Champlin, it features a mixed characteristic. Democrat Dean Phillips currently represents the district in the U.S. House of Representatives, after defeating Erik Paulsen in the November 2018 midterm elections.

Presidential election voting[edit]

Year	Office	Results	Party
2000	President	Bush 50 - 46%	Republican
2004	President	Bush 51 - 48%	Republican
2008	President	Obama 52 - 46%	Democratic
2012	President	Obama 49.6 - 48.8%	Democratic
2016	President	Clinton 50.8 - 41.4%	Democratic

List of members representing the district[edit]

Cong ress	Representative	Party	Years	Electoral history
District created					March 4, 1873
43rd	John Thomas Averill	Republican	March 4, 1873 – March 3, 1875	Retired.
44th	William Smith King	Republican	March 4, 1875 – March 3, 1877	Retired.
45th	Jacob Henry Stewart	Republican	March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1879	Retired.
46th 47th	William Drew Washburn	Republican	March 4, 1879 – March 3, 1883	Redistricted to the 4th district
48th 49th	Horace Burton Strait	Republican	March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1887	Lost re-election.
50th	John Lewis MacDonald	Democratic	March 4, 1887 – March 3, 1889	Lost re-election.
51st	Darwin Scott Hall	Republican	March 4, 1889 – March 3, 1891	Lost re-election.
52nd 53rd	Osee Matson Hall	Democratic	March 4, 1891 – March 3, 1895	Lost re-election.
54th 55th 56th 57th	Joel Prescott Heatwole	Republican	March 4, 1895 – March 3, 1903	Retired.
58th 59th 60th 61st 62nd 63rd 64th 65th 66th 67th 68th	Charles Russell Davis	Republican	March 4, 1903 – March 3, 1925	Lost renomination.
69th 70th 71st 72nd	August Herman Andresen	Republican	March 4, 1925 – March 3, 1933	Lost re-election.
73rd	March 4, 1933 – January 3, 1935	District inactive, all representatives elected At-large on a general ticket
74th	Ernest Lundeen	Farmer-Labor	January 3, 1935 – January 3, 1937	Ran for U.S. Senate (successful)
75th	Henry George Teigan	Farmer-Labor	January 3, 1937 – January 3, 1939	Lost re-election.
76th	John Grant Alexander	Republican	January 3, 1939 – January 3, 1941	Lost renomination.
77th 78th	Richard Pillsbury Gale	Republican	January 3, 1941 – January 3, 1945	Lost re-election.
79th	William James Gallagher	DFL	January 3, 1945 – August 13, 1946	Died.
79th	Vacant		August 13, 1946 – January 3, 1947
80th	George Edward MacKinnon	Republican	January 3, 1947 – January 3, 1949	Lost re-election.
81st 82nd 83rd 84th 85th 86th	Roy William Wier	DFL	January 3, 1949 – January 3, 1961	Lost re-election.
87th 88th 89th 90th 91st	Clark MacGregor	Republican	January 3, 1961 – January 3, 1971	Ran for U.S. Senate (unsuccessful)
92nd 93rd 94th 95th 96th 97th 98th 99th 100th 101st	William Eldridge Frenzel	Republican	January 3, 1971 – January 3, 1991	Retired.
102nd 103rd 104th 105th 106th 107th 108th 109th 110th	James Marvin Ramstad	Republican	January 3, 1991 – January 3, 2009	Retired.
111th 112th 113th 114th 115th	Erik Philip Paulsen	Republican	January 3, 2009 – January 3, 2019	Lost re-election.
116th	Dean Phillips	DFL	January 3, 2019 – Present	Elected in 2018.