ALLETE INC — Director's Dealing 2012

Feb 1, 2012

SEC Form 4 — Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership

Issuer: ALLETE INC (ALE)
CIK: 0000066756
Period of Report: 2012-02-01

Reporting Person: LUDLOW MADELEINE W (Director)

Non-Derivative Transactions

Date	Security	Code	Shares	Price	A/D	Holdings After	Ownership
2012-02-01	Common Stock	S	200	$41.50	Disposed	2000	Indirect

Holdings (Non-Derivative)

Security	Shares	Ownership
Common Stock	13937.16	Direct

Footnotes

F1: Reflects a change in the form of beneficial ownership with respect to 1,900 shares previously held directly and now held by a revocable trust for which the reporting person is the trustee.

F2: The sales reported in this Form 4 were effected pursuant to a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan adoped by the reporting person on December 14, 2011.