Rick Nolan
Electoral history
Table:
Minnesota's 8th Congressional district election, 2014[61]

Party

Candidate

Votes

%

Democratic (DFL)

Rick Nolan (Incumbent)

129,090

48.51%

Republican

Stewart Mills III

125,358

47.11%

Green

Skip Sandman

11,450

4.3%

Write-in

Others

185

0.07%

Majority

3,732

1.4%

Total votes

266,083

100.00%

Democratic (DFL) hold

With reference to the data within the table titled "Electoral history" section of Rick Nolan, respond to this question in a short sentence: What were the vote tallies of the top two candidates and who was the winner for this election? Respond with the correct answer in JSON format as {"answer": "YOUR ANSWER"}.

answer: Rick Nolan defeated Mills with 129,090 to 125,358.