Minnesota House of Representatives election, 2016

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November 8, 2016 (2016-11-08)

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All 134 seats in the Minnesota House of Representatives
68 seats needed for a majority

	Majority party	Minority party

Leader	Kurt Daudt	Paul Thissen
Party	Republican	DFL
Leader since	November 10, 2012	November 4, 2010
Leader's seat	31A–Crown	61B–Minneapolis
Last election	72 seats, 50.01%	62 seats, 49.30%
Seats before	73	61
Seats won	76	57
Seat change	3	4
Popular vote	1,400,587	1,366,375
Percentage	50.34	49.11
Swing	0.33 pp	0.19 pp

Speaker before election

Kurt Daudt
Republican

Elected Speaker

Kurt Daudt
Republican

The 2016 Minnesota House of Representatives election was held in the U.S. state of Minnesota on November 8, 2016, to elect members to the House of Representatives of the 90th Minnesota Legislature. A primary election was held in several districts on August 9, 2016. The election coincided with the election of the other house of the Legislature, the Senate.

The Republican Party of Minnesota won a majority of seats, remaining the majority party, followed by the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL). The new Legislature convened on January 3, 2017.

The last election resulted in the Republican Party of Minnesota winning a majority of seats, after losing a majority to the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL) only two years earlier in the previous election. This resulted in split control of the Legislature for the first time since 2006, ending eight years of unified control by either the DFL or the Republicans as well as ending two years of all-DFL control of the Legislature and governorship.

The 134 members of the House of Representatives were elected from single-member districts via first-past-the-post voting for two-year terms. Contested nominations of the DFL and Republican parties for each district were determined by an open primary election. Minor party and independent candidates were nominated by petition. Write-in candidates must have filed a request with the secretary of state's office for votes for them to have been counted.

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