The 1996 North Dakota gubernatorial election took place on November 5, 1996. Incumbent Republican

Ed Schafer Edward Thomas Schafer (born August 8, 1946) is an American businessman and politician who served as the 30th governor of North Dakota from 1992 to 2000 and as the 29th United States secretary of agriculture from 2008 to 2009 under President Georg ...

won re-election to a second term as

Governor of North Dakota The governor of North Dakota is the head of government of North Dakota and serves as the commander-in-chief of the state's North Dakota National Guard, military forces. The Constitution of North Dakota specifies that "the executive power is ves ...

, defeating Democratic-NPL nominee

Lee Kaldor Lee Kaldor (born February 20, 1951) is an American politician who served in the North Dakota House of Representatives from the 20th district from 1988 to 1996, when he ran for governor, and again from 2004 to 2012. He is a member of the North Da ...

. Schafer became the first Republican to win reelection as governor in the state since John E. Davis in

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, and the first Republican to ever win more than four years in the office.

Results

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North Dakota North Dakota ( ) is a U.S. state in the Upper Midwest, named after the indigenous Dakota people, Dakota and Sioux peoples. It is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba to the north and by the U.S. states of Minneso ...

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