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The eighty-sixth Minnesota Legislature first convened on January 6, 2009 and ended upon the beginning of the next Legislature in January 2011. The 67 members of the Minnesota Senate were elected during the 2006 General Election, and the 134 members of the Minnesota House of Representatives were elected during the 2008 General Election.
The Minnesota Legislature is the bicameral legislature of the U.S. state of Minnesota consisting of two houses: the Senate and the House of Representatives. Senators are elected from 67 single-member districts. In order to account for decennial redistricting, members run for one two-year term and two four-year terms each decade.
1st Minnesota Legislature: 1857 2nd Minnesota Legislature: 1859 3rd Minnesota Legislature: 1861 4th Minnesota Legislature: 1862 5th Minnesota Legislature: 1863 6th Minnesota Legislature: 1864 7th Minnesota Legislature: 1865 8th Minnesota Legislature: 1866 9th Minnesota Legislature: 1867 10th Minnesota Legislature: 1868 11th Minnesota ...
House Democrats in Minnesota's legislature are threatening to skip out on the first two weeks of the legislative session starting Jan. 14, deepening political discord, the Minnesota Star Tribune ...
A special session was convened September 11, 2007 to pass legislature relating to floods in southeast Minnesota and the I-35W Mississippi River bridge. [ 2 ] The legislature re-convened for regular session on February 12, 2008 and adjourned in May.
As the 2024 Minnesota legislative session lurched to a close, howls of rage filled the Senate chamber. "Traitors," Republican lawmakers shouted across the aisle. They yelled, they booed, they ...
The 2023–24 Minnesota Legislature was sworn into office on January 3, 2023, with 70 DFL members and 64 Republican members. [9] The effects of redistricting and a large number of retirements at the end of the previous session resulted in 39 races without an incumbent. 16 races were uncontested, all in noncompetitive districts.
In 1913, Minnesota legislators began to be elected on nonpartisan ballots. Nonpartisanship also was an historical accident that occurred in the 1913 session when a bill to provide for no party elections of judges and city and county officers was amended to include the Legislature in the belief that it would kill the bill.