2026 General Election · Tuesday, November 3, 2026

Minnesota Senate District 31

2 candidates, listed alphabetically.

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Candidates

Calvin Bahr

RepublicanIncumbent

In office now: State Senator, District 31 (since 2022)
Work: State Senator, Minnesota Senate District 31; former trucking company owner; U.S. Army veteran

Calvin Bahr has served as State Senator for District 31 in the Minnesota Legislature since 2022.

Calvin Bahr was first elected to the Minnesota Senate in 2022 after serving in the Minnesota House (District 31B) from 2017 to 2023. He owned Paranoid Transportation, Inc. from 2003 to 2016 and served in the U.S. Army from 1980 to 1989.

Bahr's committees

Elections
State and Local Government

Sources for Bahr

Calvin Bahr: official member information (Minnesota Legislature (Minnesota Senate; Minnesota House of Representatives), Public record)
Minnesota Legislature: current member roster (Minnesota Legislature (Minnesota Senate; Minnesota House of Representatives), Public record)
Calvin Bahr (BallotReady, Facts summarized from a public page (not copied))
Bahr, Calvin - Legislator Record (Minnesota Legislative Reference Library, Public record)

Gadisa Berkessa

Democratic–Farmer–Labor

Work: Project manager, Great River Automation LLC; engineer

Gadisa Berkessa has been a project manager at Great River Automation since 2024. He worked as an automation engineer at Takeda (2019-2024) and in engineering roles at Tennant Company, Egan Company and Honeywell, and holds an electrical engineering degree from the University of Minnesota.

Sources for Berkessa

Gadisa Berkessa (BallotReady, Facts summarized from a public page (not copied))

Sources

Candidate list and race details

2026 State General Election candidate file (cand.txt) (Minnesota Secretary of State, Public record)

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