Nyorai kuenderera mberi kweiyi ndima - Muna 1910, akamirira kuva muchengeti wemari yenyika achipesana neRepublican Gunder Olson uye munaGunyana akagadzwa semutevedzeri wasachigaro webato reDemocratic, asi akakundwa. Kutevera kusiya basa kweaimbova Mutungamiri weKomisheni Arthur LeSueur musi waMay 17, 1911, sarudzo chaiyo yakaitwa musi waChikumi 6, umo Halvorson akakunda Dorr H. Carroll naPeter Vandenoever nemavhoti 232 vachipesana nemavhoti 196 uye 94. Muna 1912, 1914, uye 1918, Halvorson akamhanya kuNorth Dakota yedunhu rechitatu reImba, asi akarasikirwa nguva imwe neimwe nekuratidzira kwake kwakanakisa kuve 31.16%. Akashanda senhume kuDemocratic National Convention ya1916
uye akapa rutsigiro rwake kuMutungamiri Woodrow Wilson.