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2026 Minnesota House of Representatives election

The 2026 Minnesota House of Representatives election will take place on November 3, 2026. All 134 districts in the Minnesota House of Representatives will be up for election to another two-year term. Primary elections will be held on August 11, 2026. Currently, 67 seats are held by Republicans and 67 seats are held by DFLers.

The election will coincide with the election of the State Senate as well as various state and local elections.

Elected members will take office on January 12, 2027.

Background

The 2024 election resulted in the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party losing a majority, as Republicans tied the chamber 67–67. The Republicans achieved a temporary majority due to a successful legal challenge in district 40B. DFL representatives held a boycott of the first three weeks of the legislative sessions, in an attempt to deny the Republicans a quorum, until the two parties made a power sharing agreement on February 5, and on February 6, Republican Lisa Demuth was elected as speaker. Power in the chamber fluctuated wildly as vacancies broke the tie while special elections restored it. On June 14, 2025, DFL leader and former House Speaker Melissa Hortman was assassinated in her home by a gunman who also attempted to assassinate a member of the Senate.

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† - Incumbent not seeking re-election.

Special elections

House district 47A special election

A special election was held on January 27, 2026, for House District 47A, in which Shelley Buck won the general election unopposed.

District 47A is in the Saint Paul suburbs of Woodbury and Maplewood. The seat was vacated on November 18, 2025 by the resignation of Amanda Hemmingsen-Jaeger after her election to the Minnesota Senate. In 2024, Hemmingsen-Jaeger carried the seat by 21 points.

Only Democratic-Farmer-Labor candidates filed for office. Shelley Buck, a longtime leader of the Prairie Island Indian Community tribal council, won the DFL nomination in the special primary election on December 16, 2025 with 87.54% of the vote. She carried the general election unopposed, winning 97.55% of votes.

House district 64A special election

A special election was also held on January 27, 2026, for House District 64A in Saint Paul. Meg Luger-Nikolai won the seat against Republican Dan Walsh with 95.28% of the vote.

The seat was vacated on November 18, 2025 by the resignation of Kaohly Her after her election as Mayor of Saint Paul. The district sits south of I-94 and east of I-35E in Saint Paul, spanning the neighborhoods of Union Park, Summit-University, Macalester-Groveland, and Summit Hill.

Six DFL candidates and one Republican candidate filed for the seat. In the DFL primary on December 16, 2025, Meg Luger-Nikolai, a labor lawyer for Education Minnesota, won with 29.91% of the vote, 155 votes ahead of candidate Dan McGrath. She faced Republican Dan Walsh, a small business owner, in the general election. Luger-Nikolai was endorsed by the DFL prior to the primary election.

In 2024, Her defeated Walsh with 83% of the vote. In the special election, Luger-Nikolai took 95.28% of the vote, a 12-point swing towards the DFL.

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