Even U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat who has easily won reelection four times, saw her margin of victory slip below 20 points for the first time. She defeated former professional basketball player Royce White, a Republican, by 15.7 points.

The Minnesota section of the "blue wall" held firm on Election Day 2024, marking the 13th straight presidential race where the Democratic candidate won the state — and the seventh time that candidate lost.

Tim Walz won the statewide presidential vote in Minnesota, President-elect Donald Trump and running mate JD Vance outgained them in the county where Walz first entered politics.Walz represented Minnesota's 1st Congressional District,

Walz returned home from the presidential campaign trail to a new era of divided state government, now that Republicans appear to have broken the full Democratic control that helped put him on Kamala Harris’ radar. He was elected governor in 2018 and was reelected in 2022 in an election that handed Democrats both chambers of the state Legislature.

We’re digging into the results of the election to learn what they say about Minnesota voters. The state’s 10 electoral college votes went to Vice President Kamala Harris. But Trump performed better here than he did in 2020 in all but three counties,

Among the firsts and would-be firsts were the first woman-majority elected into Minnesota’s delegation to the U.S. House and the missed opportunity to have the state’s first woman governor.

Initial numbers from across the United States indicate Minnesota could be the top state for voter turnout once again

With just one newly-elected member to the Minnesota congressional delegation, the results of the Nov. 5 election were more or less status quo for the state’s federal delegation. But there were some interesting developments nonetheless. Here are five takeaways from the night.

Minnesota’s only newly-elected member of Congress this year won her race by a wide margin in the Third District, where there’s been a tradition of electing moderate Democrats or Republicans.

Trump narrowly missed winning Minnesota in his two previous presidential campaigns. He came within 1.5 percentage points of victory in 2016, when he won Wisconsin and Michigan. This election cycle, Trump has suggested he could win Minnesota. However, since Walz was named on the ticket, he hasn’t paid a visit to Minnesota.

Tuesday’s election resulted in sweeping victories for Republicans across the nation. An initial look at Minnesota’s results, however, suggests Minnesotans voted in much the same way that they had in previous elections.