Special election victory by Democrat Xp Lee restores Minnesota House power-sharing deal after replacing seat of assassinated former speaker Melissa Hortman.

The race comes three months after Hortman and her husband were killed in what Minnesota authorities described as a “politically motivated assassination."

ST. PAUL — Voting season began in Minnesota on Sept. 19 for the Nov. 4 local elections. There are 38 city and school district regular elections on ballots around the state in addition to 79 special elections .

Democrat Xp Lee has won a special election to fill the Minnesota House seat of a top Democratic leader who was assassinated. Rep.

Control of the House is at stake with the election to replace the former Speaker Emerita, who was slain along with her husband three months ago.

Get live results from the special election to replace Melissa Hortman, a Democrat and former Minnesota House speaker who was killed in June.

Xp Lee won a Minnesota House election with 60.82 percent of the vote, more than two percent less than Melissa Hortman received when she won the seat.

Control of the Minnesota House of Representatives will once again be at stake Tuesday in a special election to replace Melissa Hortman, the former Democratic state House speaker who was slain along with her husband at their home in June.

Democrat Xp Lee has won a special election to fill the Minnesota House seat left vacant by the assassination of Rep. Melissa Hortman, keeping the chamber

Minnesotans are set to vote in special election to replace Melissa Hortman, the former Democratic Minnesota House speaker who was killed in June.

In a story published Sep. 23, 2025, about the sentencing of former Minnesota state Sen. Nicole Mitchell, The Associated Press erroneously reported the size of the expected Democratic majority in

Xp Lee won a special election in Minnesota on Tuesday to replace Melissa Hortman, the former speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives, who was assassinated in June. She was the top Democrat in the House.