House Democrats chose Stephenson, who has led the caucus since Melissa Hortman was assassinated in 2025, as speaker-designate.

Voters decided to send one of Minnesota’s senators to Washington but they won’t have much say in the other.

National Republican money never arrived in force, and critics say the former broadcaster spent too little time connecting with Minnesota voters.

Minnesota Democrats won the governor’s race and took control of both chambers of the state Legislature, setting up full control of state government. Nationally, Democrats won in states that have long been considered solidly Republican, including Texas and Kansas. Democrats flipped the U.S. House and Senate, as simmering discontent over high prices and President Donald Trump’s second term drove ...

Minnesota was neck-and-neck with Maine for the highest midterm voter turnout in the nation. In Minnesota, just under two-thirds of those eligible cast a ballot. Minnesota voters also set a new state record for midterm elections with more than 2.8 million ballots cast, according to unofficial results from the Minnesota Secretary of State’s Office. The previous record was set in 2018, with 2.6 ...

Minnesota Republicans headed into the 2026 election with their strongest slate of candidates in years and a persuasive anti-fraud message after scandal rocked the DFL under Gov. Tim Walz. Yet the GOP was wiped out anyway, crushed by a historic Democratic wave in which voters handed the DFL control of every statewide office and full control of the Minnesota Legislature. The results are already ...

Minnesotans overwhelmingly voted in favor of a constitutional amendment that will provide millions more dollars for K-12 schools in the state.

Posts questioning the integrity of Minnesota elections on the basis St. Louis Park Mayor Nadia Mohamed's visited ​a polling station on Election Day omit the context ‌that the mayor was not on the ballot.