List of majority leaders of the Minnesota Senate
| Majority Leader of the Minnesota Senate | |
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| Inaugural holder | Charles N. Orr |
| Formation | January 1933 |
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This is a list of majority leaders of the Minnesota Senate. The majority leader is the head of the majority party in the Minnesota Senate, and is the most powerful political figure in the body.
List
| No. | Name | Took office | Left office | Party/caucus | |
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| 1 | Charles N. Orr | 1933 | 1949 | Conservative | |
| 2 | Archie H. Miller | 1949 | 1959 | Conservative | |
| 3 | John M. Zwach | 1959 | 1967 | Conservative | |
| 4 | Stanley W. Holmquist | 1967 | 1973 | Conservative | |
| 5 | Nick Coleman | 1973 | 1981 | Democratic-Farmer-Labor
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| 6 | Roger Moe | 1981 | 2003 | Democratic-Farmer-Labor
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| 7 | John Hottinger | 2003 | 2004 | Democratic-Farmer-Labor
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| 8 | Dean Johnson | 2004 | 2007 | Democratic-Farmer-Labor
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| 9 | Larry Pogemiller | 2007 | 2011 | Democratic-Farmer-Labor
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| 10 | Amy Koch | 2011 | 2011 | Republican
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| 11 | Dave Senjem | 2011 | 2013 | Republican
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| 12 | Tom Bakk | 2013 | 2017 | Democratic-Farmer-Labor
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| 13 | Paul Gazelka | 2017 | 2021 | Republican
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| 14 | Mark Johnson (acting) | 2021 | 2021 | Republican
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| 15 | Jeremy Miller | 2021 | 2023 | Republican
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| 16 | Kari Dziedzic | 2023 | 2024 | Democratic-Farmer-Labor
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| 17 | Erin Murphy | 2024 | incumbent | Democratic-Farmer-Labor
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Notes
- Democratic Party.
- Republican Party.
In 1913, Minnesota legislators began to be elected on nonpartisan ballots. Nonpartisanship also was an historical accident that occurred in the 1913 session when a bill to provide for no party elections of judges and city and county officers was amended to include the Legislature in the belief that it would kill the bill. Legislators ran and caucused as "Liberals" or "Conservatives" roughly equivalent in most years to Democratic-Farmer-Labor and Republican, respectively. The law was changed in 1973, in 1976, Senate members again ran with party designation.