Minnesota Senators, Representatives, and Congressional District Maps

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• Labor and Industry Finance and Policy
• See also: Minnesota 2024 ballot measures
• Session Daily
• See also: 2023 Minnesota legislative session and Dates of 2023 state legislative sessions
• ↑ Minneapolis Star-Tribune, "138 legislators are collecting paychecks during shutdown," July 10, 2011
• Industrial Education and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee
• State judge elections

Elections for the office of Minnesota House of Representatives consisted of a primary election on September 10, 2002, and a general election on November 5, 2002. Elections for the office of Minnesota House of Representatives consisted of a primary election on September 14, 2004, and a general election on November 2, 2004. Elections for the office of Minnesota House of Representatives consisted of a primary election on September 12, 2006, and a general election on November 7, 2006. Elections for the office of Minnesota House of Representatives consisted of a primary election on September 9, 2008, and a general election on November 4, 2008. Heading into the election, Republicans held a majority. Republicans gained three seats in the election, giving them a majority with one vacancy.

Labor and Industry Finance and Policy

The House minority leader is chosen by the members of the minority caucus to enunciate theminority position during floor debate. The House majority leader chairs the House Rules and Legislative Administration Committee andoversees the day-to-day administrative operations of the House. The majority leader traditionallyleads the caucus during floor debates. District 67B covers the easternmost portion of Saint Paul. Incumbent Republican Jeff Backer was first elected in 2014. Incumbent DFLer Jennifer Schultz, who was first elected in 2014, is instead running for Minnesota's 8th congressional district.

See also: Minnesota 2024 ballot measures

Leigh Finke, the DFL endorsed candidate, became the first transgender member of the Minnesota Legislature. Incumbent Republican Anne Neu Brindley is running for re-election. District 28B covers the southern portion of Chisago County and includes the cities of Lindström, Chisago City, Stacy, as well as the eastern part of North Branch. District 6A, located in north central Minnesota, stretches from Grand Rapids to Garrison. Incumbent DFLer Heather Keeler was first elected in the 2020 election.

Session Daily

Each Senate district is divided in half and given the suffix A or B (for example, House district 32B is in Senate district 32). Members are elected to two-year terms.[5] Districts are redrawn after the decennial United States Census in time for the primary and general elections in years ending in 2. Twenty-five Republicans voted against the fourth bill, which included measures that could lead to a ban on TikTok in the United States and that would redirect funds from seized Russian assets to help aid Ukraine. Democrats put up a big vote — 174 — in favor of this bill, which was intended to sweeten the overall package for conservatives.

Week in Review: Feb. 19-23 - Session Daily - Minnesota House of Representatives

Week in Review: Feb. 19-23 - Session Daily.

Posted: Fri, 23 Feb 2024 08:00:00 GMT [source]

Minnesota holds elections for its legislature in even years. While all Democrats voted in favor of aid to Ukraine and all but Ms. Tlaib supported funding to Taiwan, 37 left-leaning Democrats defected to vote against the Israel aid bill. They said before the vote that they opposed unfettered aid to Israel that could be used in its offensive in Gaza. The opposition to the Israel aid represented a minority of Democrats, but reflected the deep resistance to unconditional aid and the divisions in the party on Gaza.

↑ Minneapolis Star-Tribune, "138 legislators are collecting paychecks during shutdown," July 10, 2011

In the 2022 elections, Republicans gained one seat in the Minnesota House of Representatives, but Democrats retained a majority in the chamber. The Democratic Party controls the office of governor and both chambers of the state legislature. Marathon floor sessions may soon await — perhaps as early as Monday. Eight bills are on the days' Calendar for the Day, including three — HF4300, HF601 and HF2609 — that involve firearms. Another bill, HF4444, concerns misclassification of employees and has provoked lengthy discussions on its path to the floor.

Incumbent DFLer Mary Murphy was first elected in 1976. All representatives serve until the end of the current Congress on Jan 3, 2025. The table below details the 10 districts with the smallest margin of victory in the November 6 general election in 2012. In the 2018 elections, Democrats gained control of the Minnesota House of Representatives. The Minnesota House of Representatives meets in the north wing of the State Capitol in Saint Paul. Member and staff offices, as well as most committee hearings, are in the nearby State Office Building.

How many legislators are required to vote for an override? Two-thirds of members in both chambers.

"The public expects legislators to meet a high standard of conduct," Republican Senate Minority Leader Mark Johnson said in a statement to CBS News. "As information comes out, we expect the consequences to meet the actions, both in the court of law, and in her role at the Legislature." Incumbent Sydney Jordan was first elected in a 2020 special election caused by the death of DFL member Diane Loeffler. District 5B is the only district in which the Independence Party of Minnesota is fielding a candidate.

State judge elections

Thirty-nine Democrats had voted “no” on Friday on the rule to allow the foreign aid package to come to the House floor, a target that progressives just missed on Saturday on the Israel bill. Fourteen of those Democrats voted on Saturday in favor of aid to Israel, while 12 Democrats who voted to allow the package on the floor on Friday then cast votes against the funding itself. Minnesota state representatives serve two-year terms, with all seats up for election every two years.

The primary election was held on August 10, 2010, and the general election was held on November 2, 2010. The 2022 Minnesota House of Representatives election was held in the U.S. state of Minnesota on November 8, 2022, to elect members to the House of Representatives of the 93rd Minnesota Legislature. A primary election was held in several districts on August 9, 2022. The election coincided with the election of the other chamber of the Legislature, the Senate. Incumbent DFLer Rob Ecklund was first elected in a 2015 special election. District 3A is located in northeastern Minnesota, covering large portions of the Iron Range and the northern Arrowhead Region.

Heading into the election, Republicans held a majority with one vacancy. Republicans lost 11 seats in the election, giving Democrats a majority. Heading into the election, Democrats held a majority. Democrats lost 11 seats in the election, giving Republicans a majority. In the 2020 elections, Republicans gained five seats in the Minnesota House of Representatives, but Democrats retained a majority in the chamber.

It was formed alongside the Minnesota Senate to create the Minnesota State Legislature, the bicameral legislative body of the state.

Americans in the United States’s six territories are represented in the House of Representatives by an additional six non-voting delegates. Each state in the United States elects two senators, regardless of the state’s population. Senators serve six-year terms with staggered elections. Americans in the United States’s six territories do not have senators.

The Minnesota House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the Minnesota State Legislature. Alongside the Minnesota State Senate, it forms the legislative branch of the Minnesota state government and works alongside the governor of Minnesota to create laws and establish a state budget. Established in 1858, the Minnesota House of Representatives has 134 members elected from single-member districts across the state. Representatives serve two-year terms without term limits, with all seats up for election every two years.

The district is located in central Minnesota and covers all of Todd County plus portions of Morrison County, Cass County, and Wadena County. The United States is divided into 435 congressional districts, each with a population of about 710,000 individuals. Each district elects a representative to the House of Representatives for a two-year term. Representatives are also called congressmen/congresswomen.

The House is led by the Speaker, who is elected by members of the House, while political party leadership is governed by the Majority and Minority Leaders. An earlier version of this article incorrectly identified the political party of a group of representatives who notably voted “no” on new aid for Israel. Still, 37 “no” votes, while a break from Washington’s ironclad support for the Jewish state, fell short of the opposition bloc progressives had hoped to muster.