Minnesota 2024 Election Results

Minnesota held its general election on November 5, 2024, deciding 134 legislative seats. Control shifted: the House moved from a 70-64 Democratic majority to a 67-67 power-sharing tie. The Senate was not up for regular election this cycle.

Highlights

• Minnesota's election erased the six-seat House majority of the DFL, the state's Democratic Party, and with it the trifecta that had powered two years of one-party lawmaking in St. Paul. Democrats kept their one-seat Senate majority by winning the only Senate contest on the ballot, a District 45 special election held by Ann Johnson Stewart (D). That left the deadlocked House as the hinge of the session and forced the parties into a power-sharing arrangement for 2025-26.
• All three Republican pickups came outside the Twin Cities area, in DFL-held seats the party had been defending:
  • House District 7B (Iron Range): Cal Warwas (R) won the open seat over Lorrie Janatopoulos (D).
  • House District 18A (St. Peter area): Erica Schwartz (R) defeated Rep. Jeff Brand (D), the night's only sitting legislator to lose.
  • House District 26A (Winona area): Aaron Repinski (R) won the open seat over Sarah Kruger (D).
• The tie itself took four months of litigation to settle. A judge ruled that House District 40B winner Curtis Johnson (D) did not meet residency requirements, vacating a safe DFL seat and briefly handing Republicans a one-seat edge. DFL members boycotted the opening weeks of the session to deny a quorum, and the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that 68 members are needed to do business, forcing the two sides to the table. In House District 54A, Rep. Brad Tabke (D) survived a court challenge to his 14-vote win after 20 absentee ballots were mistakenly discarded in Shakopee; the judge let the result stand and denied a new election. The chamber returned to 67-67 when David Gottfried (D) won the March special election in 40B, and the session proceeded under co-chaired committees with Lisa Demuth (R) holding the speakership for the full term.
• Across the 134 House races, 7 finished inside two points, none thinner than Tabke's 14-vote hold in House District 54A, and 6 drew a single candidate.
• Voters also passed Amendment 1 with about 83 percent of the votes cast on the question, extending the dedication of lottery proceeds to the Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund for another 25 years.

Legislature

• House (134 seats): 70 D, 64 R before the election, 67 D, 67 R after; control moved from Democrats to Power_Sharing.
• Senate (67 seats): 34 D, 33 R before the election, 34 D, 33 R after; control stayed with Democrats.

Legislative races

Ballot measures