The 2000 United States Senate election in Minnesota was held on November 7, 2000, to select a
U.S. senator from the state of
Minnesota. The race pitted incumbent
Republican Senator
Rod Grams against former
Minnesota State AuditorMark Dayton. Dayton won with 48.83% of the vote to Grams's 43.29%. Dayton declined to run for reelection in
2006 and ran successfully in
2010 and
2014 for governor of Minnesota. He was succeeded in the Senate by
Amy Klobuchar, who has held the seat ever since. Upon Dayton's swearing in, Democrats held both of Minnesota's U.S. Senate seats for the first time since 1978. As of 2024, this is the last time that a man won the Class 1 Senate seat in Minnesota.