List of majority leaders of the North Dakota Senate

The following is a list of majority leaders of the North Dakota Senate, a position that was created in 1940 and first filled in 1941.^[1]

#		Term	Party	District
1		1941–1942	Republican/IVA	9
2	Milton R. Young	1943–1944	Republican/IVA	24
3	Clarence N. Brunsdale	1945–1950	Republican	8
4		1951–1952	Republican	4
5		1953–1956	Republican/NPL	33
6		1957–1958	Republican	23
7		1959–1962	Republican	14
8		1963–1964	Republican	36
9		1965–1966	Republican	14
10		1967–1968	Republican	32
11		1969–1970	Republican	18
12	Irv J. Wilhite	1971–1972	Republican	32
13		1973–1974	Republican	21
14	David E. Nething	1975–1986	Republican	29
15		1987–1992	Democratic-NPL	10
16		1993–1994	Democratic-NPL	23
17		1995–2001^[2]	Republican	22
18	Bob Stenehjem	2001–2011	Republican	30
19	Rich Wardner	2011–present	Republican	37

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