Five Candidates will have a direct shot at legislative seats next year after running for office without an opponent.
The handful of Democratic-Farmer-Labor candidates will have a free hand in November as they run unopposed in their races for the House of Representatives. That was after the filing deadline passed Tuesday night.
Reps. Kelly Moller, Patty Acomb, Fue Lee, Samantha Sencer-Mura and Samakab Hussein had no challengers in the primary or general election at the close of filing Tuesday.
All 134 House seats will be on the ballot, while at least one Senate seat is expected to be up for grabs in a special election. The outcome could change the political power dynamic on Capitol Hill, where Democrats currently hold slim majorities in the House and Senate, as well as control of the governor’s office.
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State Sen. Kelly Morrison, DFL-Deephaven, has launched a bid for the U.S. House of Representatives representing Minnesota‘s 3rd Congressional District and is expected to announce she will resign her seat in the Legislature.
Several DFL senators, along with Minnesota DFL Party Chairman and Gov. Tim Walz, have also called on DFL-Woodbury Sen. Nicole Mitchell to resign following her arrest for theft in April. Mitchell has said she has no intention of resigning.
A special election for either seat could come before voters along with the Nov. 5 general election if senators submit their resignations to the governor’s office by Saturday. Subsequent decisions to resign could trigger special elections sometime after the general election.
The rest of the candidates will face each other in the November elections, and some will face partisan primaries in August.
Minnesota voters will also vote in the presidential race, a U.S. Senate race and elections for the state’s eight House seats.
Two Minnesota Supreme Court justices will also face election challenges. Stephen Emery has filed to take on Chief Justice Natalie Hudson, and Matthew Hanson is challenging Associate Justice Karl Procaccini. Hudson was appointed to the court by former Gov. Mark Dayton and Procaccini was appointed by Gov. Tim Walz.
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