Minnesota Senate election, 2016

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November 8, 2016 (2016-11-08)

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All 67 seats in the Minnesota Senate
34 seats needed for a majority

	Majority party	Minority party

Leader	David Hann	Tom Bakk
Party	Republican	DFL
Leader since	November 9, 2012	November 4, 2010
Leader's seat	48th–Eden Prairie (defeated)	3rd–Cook
Last election	28 seats, 43.49%	39 seats, 55.83%
Seats won	34	33
Seat change	6	6
Popular vote	1,377,128	1,409,775
Percentage	48.96	50.12
Swing	5.47 pp	5.71 pp

Majority Leader before election

Tom Bakk
DFL

Elected Majority Leader

Paul Gazelka
Republican

Tom Bakk
DFL

Paul Gazelka
Republican

The 2016 Minnesota Senate election was held in the U.S. state of Minnesota on November 8, 2016, to elect members to the Senate of the 90th and 91st Minnesota Legislatures. 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 House of Representatives.

The Republican Party of Minnesota won a majority of seats, defeating the majority of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL). This was the first election for the DFL since it won a majority of seats in the 2012 election, after losing a majority to the Republicans in the 2010 election. The new Legislature convened on January 3, 2017.

The last election resulted in the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL) winning a majority of seats, after losing a majority to the Republican Party of Minnesota only two years earlier in the previous election. This resulted in the Republicans losing the only majority they have had since the return of partisan elections to the Senate in 1976. In conjunction with the result of the House election, it also resulted in the return of all-DFL control of the Legislature since 2010 as well as the return of all-party and all-DFL control of the Legislature and governorship since 1990, which ended with the election of a Republican majority to the House in 2014.

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