Overview
- Preliminary state results show Shelley Buck winning uncontested in District 47A and Meg Luger-Nikolai defeating Republican Dan Walsh with roughly 95% in District 64A.
- The outcomes return the Minnesota House to an even split ahead of the Feb. 17 legislative session, sustaining the bipartisan arrangement used last year.
- Under the agreement, Republican Lisa Demuth remains speaker and most House committees are co-chaired by both parties.
- Official certification is still pending, and recounts are unlikely given Minnesota’s 0.5% threshold for publicly funded recounts and the decisive margins.
- The vacancies stemmed from Kaohly Her’s election as St. Paul mayor and Amanda Hemmingsen-Jaeger’s move to the state Senate, in districts that historically favor Democrats.