The Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party is Minnesota’s own distinctive branch of the Democratic Party. Founded in 1944 in a merger between the Farmer-Labor Party and the state Democratic Party.
The purpose of the DFL Party shall be to elect candidates to public office who represent our shared values. Those shared values are embodied by our Platform and Action Agenda, and by The Charter and The Bylaws of the Democratic Party. (Minnesota DFL Constitution, Article 1, Section 4. Purpose.)