Minnesota House of Representatives election, 2018
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The 2018 Minnesota House of Representatives election will be held in the U.S. state of Minnesota on November 6, 2018, to elect members to the House of Representatives of the 91st Minnesota Legislature. If necessary, a primary election will be held in several districts on August 14, 2018. The election coincides with the election of the governor.
The last election resulted in the Republican Party of Minnesota winning a majority of seats, the first time that a party has retained control of the House of Representatives since the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL) in the 2008 election. In conjunction with the result of the Senate election, it also resulted in the return of all-Republican control of the Legislature since 2012—only the second time the Republicans have held control of both houses since the return of partisan elections to the House in 1974 and the Senate in 1976 and marking the end of two years of split control between a Republican-held House and a DFL-held Senate.
The 134 members of the House of Representatives will be 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 will be determined by an open primary election. Minor party and independent candidates will be nominated by petition. Write-in candidates must file a request with the secretary of state's office for votes for them to be counted.
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