2016 Minnesota House of Representatives election

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.

• Mark Anderson, 9A^[1]
• Dave Hancock, 2A^[2]
• Tim Kelly, 21A^[3]
• Tara Mack, 57A^[4]
• Denny McNamara, 54B^[5]
• Tim Sanders, 37B^[6]

• Joe Atkins, 52B^[7]
• Jason Isaacson, 42B^[8]
• Carolyn Laine, 41B^[9]
• Carly Melin, 6A^[10]
• Jerry Newton, 37A^[11]
• Kim Norton, 25B^[12]
• Dan Schoen, 54A^[13]
• Yvonne Selcer, 48A^[14]
• Erik Simonson, 7B^[15]

According to MinnPost, the Star Tribune, the Pioneer Press, and MPR News, a total of 25 districts were competitive. MinnPost considered 17 districts to be competitive—12 of which were held by the Republicans and five by the DFL,^[16] the Star Tribune 22—16 of which were held by the Republicans and six by the DFL,^[17] the Pioneer Press eight—seven of which were held by the Republicans and one by the DFL,^[18] and MPR News 14—11 of which were held by the Republicans and three by the DFL.^[19]

District	Incumbent	Party	First elected	2014 result	MinnPost[16] (November 3, 2016)	Star Tribune[17] (November 3, 2016)	Pioneer Press[18] (October 18, 2016)	MPR News[19] (September 22, 2016)	Result
2A	Dave Hancock‡	Republican	2010, 2014†	52.36%					Hold
4B	Paul Marquart	DFL	2000	65.84%					Hold
5B	Tom Anzelc	DFL	2006	56.54%					Republican gain
10B	Dale Lueck	Republican	2014	51.86%					Hold
11B	Jason Rarick	Republican	2014	53.67%					Hold
12A	Jeff Backer	Republican	2014	51.85%					Hold
14A	Tama Theis	Republican	2013*	54.90%					Hold
14B	Jim Knoblach	Republican	1994, 2014†	50.15%					Hold
17A	Tim Miller	Republican	2014	55.37%					Hold
17B	Dave Baker	Republican	2014	50.66%					Hold
21A	Tim Kelly‡	Republican	2008	62.17%					Hold
24B	Brian Daniels	Republican	2014	50.85%					Hold
25B	Kim Norton‡	DFL	2006	94.91%§					Hold
28B	Greg Davids	Republican	1991*, 2008†	55.88%					Hold
37B	Tim Sanders‡	Republican	2008	55.40%					Hold
42A	Barb Yarusso	DFL	2012	50.55%					Republican gain
44A	Sarah Anderson	Republican	2006	55.51%					Hold
48A	Yvonne Selcer‡	DFL	2012	50.04%					Hold
49A	Ron Erhardt	DFL	1990, 2012†	51.38%					Republican gain
50B	Chad Anderson	Republican	2016*	65.60%[nb 1]					DFL gain
54B	Denny McNamara‡	Republican	2002	60.54%					Hold
56A	Drew Christensen	Republican	2014	55.81%					Hold
56B	Roz Peterson	Republican	2014	53.99%					Hold
57A	Tara Mack‡	Republican	2008	58.44%					DFL gain
57B	Anna Wills	Republican	2012	58.40%					Hold

*Elected in a special election.^[20]

†Elected to non-consecutive terms.^[21]

‡Retired; did not seek re-election.

§Unopposed.

Source: Minnesota Secretary of State^[48]

Summary of the November 8, 2016, Minnesota House of Representatives election results

Party		Candidates	Votes			Seats
			No.	%	∆pp	No.	∆No.	%
	Republican Party of Minnesota	130	1,400,587	50.34	0.33	76	3	56.72
	Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party	131	1,366,375	49.11	0.19	57	4	42.54
	Libertarian Party of Minnesota	2	2,467	0.09	0.09	0		0.00
	Green Party of Minnesota	1	919	0.03	0.07	0		0.00
	Independent	1	5,423	0.19	0.19	0		0.00
	Write-in	N/A	6,734	0.24	0.10	0		0.00
Results invalidated[nb 2]		2	N/A	N/A	N/A	1	1	0.75
Total			2,782,505	100.00	±0.00	134	±0	100.00
Invalid/blank votes			185,776	6.26	2.46
Turnout (out of 3,972,330 eligible voters)[51]			2,968,281	74.72	24.21
Source: Minnesota Secretary of State,[52] Minnesota Legislative Reference Library[53]

*Elected in a special election.^[20]

†Elected to non-consecutive terms.^[21]

‡Retired; did not seek re-election.

§Lost primary election for party's nomination.

*Elected in a special election.^[20]

†Elected to non-consecutive terms.^[21]

‡Retired; did not seek re-election.

• Minnesota Senate election, 2016
• Minnesota elections, 2016
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• Elections & Voting - Minnesota Secretary of State