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Democrat Xp Lee wins particular election to fill seat of slain Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman

Editorial Board Published September 17, 2025
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Democrat Xp Lee gained a particular election on Tuesday for a seat beforehand held by the late Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated in June, and within the course of restoring a tie within the Minnesota Home.

Lee gained the seat over Republican Ruth Bittner with 61% of the vote.

Xp Lee, Democratic candidate for Minnesota home district 34B, knocks on doorways throughout campaigning in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, on Sept. 11, 2025.

Mark Vancleave / AP

The election to exchange Hortman, a former Minnesota Home speaker, passed off about three months after she and her husband have been gunned down of their residence by a person impersonating a police officer in Brooklyn Park, a suburb northwest of Minneapolis. State Sen. John Hoffman and his spouse Yvette additionally have been shot of their residence, however survived.

Vance Boelter, 57, faces federal and state homicide, tried homicide and different fees within the June 14 assaults.

Tuesday’s particular election between Lee and Bittner additionally follows one other act of political violence, the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Utah final Wednesday. The shootings have been a priority amongst voters within the district — and for each candidates.

Lee mentioned he needs to calm the “charged atmosphere” within the wake of Kirk’s demise.

Bittner mentioned the violence briefly gave her pause about operating for workplace, however she concluded that “there’s no way to solve this problem if we shrink back in fear.”

Lee, a former Brooklyn Park Metropolis Council member, simply gained a three-way Democratic major in August. Bittner, an actual property agent, was the only Republican on the first poll for the seat within the closely Democratic district.

“This victory is my ‘thank you’ to this community for everything it has given me and my family. Every family in Minnesota deserves the opportunities I’ve had. Right now, those opportunities are getting too far out of reach. I’m going to do everything I can to make a brighter future a reality for all of us,”  Lee mentioned in a press release on his victory.

Lee’s win restores a 67-67 tie and protect a power-sharing deal that existed for a lot of the 2025 legislative session after the 2024 elections price Home Democrats their majority.

Hortman brokered that settlement, which ended Democrats’ three-week boycott. Beneath the deal, she agreed to finish her six-year tenure as speaker and let Republican Lisa Demuth take the place. Hortman then took the title speaker emerita. Most legislative committees grew to become evenly break up between Republican and Democratic members, with co-chairs from every social gathering.

The tie within the Home meant some degree of bipartisan settlement was required to move something on this 12 months’s session.

An upset by Bittner would have given Republicans management of the Home for the primary time since 2018, and put them in a fair stronger place to pressure concessions from Democratic Gov. Tim Walz and a Senate that Democrats management by just one vote. Walz on Tuesday introduced his marketing campaign for a 3rd consecutive time period, one thing no governor in state historical past has achieved.

Almost three months after Hortman’s killing, the Home Democrats selected Rep. Zack Stephenson as her successor to steer the caucus. Stephenson was Hortman’s marketing campaign supervisor in 2004, and he or she grew to become his mentor and buddy within the ensuing years. He was first elected to the Legislature in 2018.

Two extra particular elections shall be held Nov. 4 in a pair of Minnesota Senate districts.

One is to fill the seat vacated by Democratic Sen. Nicole Mitchell, of the St. Paul suburb of Woodbury. She resigned in July after she was convicted of burglarizing her estranged stepmother’s residence. The opposite is for the seat of Republican Sen. Bruce Anderson, of the Minneapolis exurb of Buffalo, who died in July.

On condition that the districts are closely Democratic and closely Republican, respectively, management of the Senate isn’t anticipated to vary. However the Democratic candidate for Mitchell’s seat is state Rep. Amanda Hemmingsen-Jaeger, of Woodbury. If she wins, the governor must name one other particular election to fill her Home seat.

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