Minnesota elections in 2026

Minnesota US Senate: D 53.0 to R 45.0, lean Democratic, well sourced. Progressive Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan faces former broadcaster Michele Tafoya in Minnesota Senate race

Minnesota Governor: D 54.5 to R 43.5, likely Democratic, well sourced. Klobuchar Favored Over Demuth as Both Seek Historic First Female Governorship

House delegation as simulated: 4 D, 4 R, 0 tossups of 8 districts swept.

Model readings of live reporting, not polling. The full Minnesota board, with sourcing and the county map where one exists, is on the Midterms 2026 tab of the homepage.

How Minnesota votes

Minnesota combines the Twin Cities' diversified economy with the Iron Range and a large agricultural south. It carries the nation's longest Democratic presidential streak, yet its statewide margins have often been closer than that streak implies.

Its largest population centers include Minneapolis, St. Paul, Duluth, Rochester. Where a state's people live, and what those places do for a living, is the starting point for how Electorate HQ simulations reason about it.

On the ballot in Minnesota

Election day is November 3, 2026. Minnesota has 2 statewide races and 8 House seats on the ballot.

Statewide races

House districts

Every House seat is elected every two years. Each district below is listed with the counties inside it, computed from the current Census boundary files, wherever those files give a clean answer. Not sure which district is yours? Use the address lookup below.

• Minnesota 1st district: Blue Earth, Brown, Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore, Freeborn, Goodhue, Houston and 13 more counties (21 in all)
• Minnesota 2nd district: Dakota, Le Sueur, Scott Counties
• Minnesota 3rd district: Hennepin County
• Minnesota 4th district: Ramsey, Washington Counties
• Minnesota 5th district: entirely within Hennepin County
• Minnesota 6th district: Anoka, Benton, Carver, Sherburne, Wright Counties
• Minnesota 7th district: Becker, Big Stone, Chippewa, Clay, Cottonwood, Douglas, Grant, Kandiyohi and 28 more counties (36 in all)
• Minnesota 8th district: Aitkin, Beltrami, Carlton, Cass, Chisago, Clearwater, Cook, Crow Wing and 11 more counties (19 in all)

Find your exact districts

Which district am I in? Minnesota districts by county

House districts follow population, not county lines, so a single county can hold several districts and a single district can span many. Each county is listed under the district that holds its center, so if your county appears once above, that district holds most of it and is probably yours. If it appears under several, or if you live near a district line, use the address lookup for the exact answer.

Before you vote in Minnesota

Registration deadlines, early voting windows, mail ballot rules and identification requirements are all set at the state level and change between cycles, so the authoritative source is your own election office rather than any national site. The federal directory at vote.gov links to every state's registration system, and your county election office publishes the sample ballot that includes local contests.

The ballot section above covers the federal and statewide offices on the Minnesota ballot for November 3, 2026. Each statewide race links to a page with current coverage and an AI-generated simulation of the contest, always labeled as a simulation rather than a poll.

Local races

Local councils and commissions, school boards, judges, sheriffs and municipal offices are also on many Minnesota ballots, and they vary block by block. Your county election office publishes the authoritative local sample ballot.

Minnesota's weight in Washington

Minnesota carries 10 electoral votes, which ranks it 20 of 51 by that measure, and sends 8 voting members to the House.

That arithmetic is why the same national argument lands differently here than in a state of another size: a candidate courting Minnesota is competing for a specific share of the map, and the issues below are the ones that share actually turns on.

How Minnesota is represented

Minnesota is divided into 8 House districts, each drawn to hold roughly the same number of people, while its two Senate seats represent the state as a whole. A campaign here therefore runs two different arguments at once: a local one shaped by whichever district a voter lives in, and a statewide one that has to hold together across all 8.

Electoral votes follow the same arithmetic, House seats plus two, which is why Minnesota carries 10 in a presidential year and why small states carry proportionally more weight there than population alone would give them. The district list above shows every district on the 2026 ballot and the counties the boundary files place inside each one.

Latest Minnesota political headlines

Simulate Minnesota

In the Electorate HQ simulator, Minnesota is one of 51 delegations that reads current reporting and decides a presidential race issue by issue. Results are AI simulations, clearly labeled, with the reasoning shown for every call. See the methodology for what that does and does not mean.

Analysis covering Minnesota

• Twenty-six states elect a senator and a governor on the same day in 2026

  The overlap between the Senate class and the gubernatorial cohort is a coincidence of two unrelated calendars, and it decides where money goes.

• The 2026 Senate map covers 62% of the country and 70% of the states

  Thirty-five of fifty states vote for Senate this year. Weighted by people rather than states the share drops, and that gap is the design of the chamber.

• Election night is reported in 3,142 counties and decided in 435 districts

  The unit America counts votes in and the unit America allocates House seats in are different shapes, and they do not nest inside each other.