Minnesota House of Representatives election, 2008

November 4, 2008 (2008-11-04)

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

	Majority party	Minority party

Leader	Margaret Anderson Kelliher	Marty Seifert
Party	DFL	Republican
Leader since	June 20, 2006	November 18, 2006
Leader's seat	60A–Minneapolis	21A–Marshall
Last election	85 seats, 54.86%	49 seats, 44.44%
Seats won	87	47
Seat change	2	2
Popular vote	1,516,633	1,211,020
Percentage	54.87%	43.81%
Swing	0.01 pp	0.63 pp

Speaker before election

Margaret Anderson Kelliher
DFL

Elected Speaker

Margaret Anderson Kelliher
DFL

The 2008 Minnesota House of Representatives election was held in the U.S. state of Minnesota on November 4, 2008, to elect members to the House of Representatives of the 86th Minnesota Legislature. A primary election was held in several districts on September 9, 2008.

The Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL) won a majority of seats, remaining the majority party, followed by the Republican Party of Minnesota. The new Legislature convened on January 6, 2009.

Results

Summary of the November 4, 2008 Minnesota House of Representatives election results
Party		Candidates	Votes			Seats
Party		Candidates	No.	%	∆pp	No.	∆No.	%
	Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party	134	1,516,633	54.87	0.01	87	2	64.93
	Republican Party of Minnesota	134	1,211,020	43.81	0.63	47	2	35.07
	Independence Party of Minnesota	11	14,601	0.53	0.22	0		0.00
	Green Party of Minnesota	3	6,648	0.24	0.11	0		0.00
	Independent	3	9,717	0.35	0.32	0		0.00
	Write-in	N/A	5,670	0.21	0.03	0		0.00
Total			2,764,289	100.00	±0.00	134	±0	100.00
Invalid/blank votes			157,209	5.38	1.48
Turnout (out of 3,740,142 eligible voters)^[1]			2,921,498	78.11	17.64
Source: Minnesota Secretary of State,^[2] Minnesota Legislative Reference Library^[3]

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