MN US House

Near-miss 2016 candidates are not going quietly into the political night in the Gopher State.

Only 13 Democratic U.S. Representatives in state party history have opted not to run for reelection – no two in the same cycle.

Only one DFL U.S. Representative in party history has faced more primary opponents than Minnesota’s 5th CD U.S. Representative.

For the first time in Minnesota history, every member elected to the state delegation was 50+ years old.

Hagedorn could become just the second Minnesotan to win a U.S. House seat after losing the first two times to the same candidate in back-to-back-to-back cycles.

The Gopher State has held 160 U.S. House contests since its last special election in 1977 – third most in the nation.

Only 15 Minnesota U.S. House races have been decided by less than a percentage point in state history with only two cycles yielding two such contests.

Only four times over the last 100 years has the Gopher State seen each of its U.S. House seats remain under the same partisan control in two straight cycles.