Our major political parties hold caucuses in February. This is your opportunity to be active in the poitical process at the grassroots level. You may volunteer as a delegate to the nominating conventions, and to support the issues and policies you care about. Note that in 2022, all state officials will be elected, so it is a year in which you have significant input to issues and nominations.
Generally, there are three main activities at a caucus:
Choose volunteers who will organize political activities in the precinct. This could include maintaining contact lists, holding political meetings, and helping with campaign efforts.
Discuss issues and ideas for the party to support. You can present an issue or idea for the party to support, called a resolution. If you convince other attendees to support your resolution, it will be taken to the next political convention. Eventually, your resolution could become part of the official party platform.
Choose delegates who will endorse candidates at future conventions.At future conventions, party delegates will endorse state and federal candidates, including for Governor. Political parties have different ways of choosing delegates at the precinct level caucus—contact your party for more information.
IF WITH DFL - As of Wed Jan 19,all of the senate district caucuses in the Metro area are contactless caucuses (EXCEPT for SD38 & SD43 – they are having in person caucuses)
Contactless caucus(most metro senate districts) = caucus will NOT be held in person AT ALL (to have a shot at being a delegate, you will need to complete a non attendee caucus google form which could be senate district specific OR the non attendee caucus from (paper/PDF version). If there are more forms submitted than delegate spots – a virtual election will take place in Feb that you can watch to see who will be chosen to move forward as a delegate.
