State facts
- Population
- 5,830,405 (2025 estimate; 5,706,733 in the 2020 Census)
- Seats in the U.S. House
- 8
- State legislature
- Senate: 67 members, 4-year terms
- House of Representatives: 134 members, 2-year terms
- Governor’s term
- Four-year term, with no term limit.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, 2025 state population estimates; National Conference of State Legislatures. Checked October 19, 2026.
Who represents Minnesota now
- Governor
- Tim Walz · Democratic · since January 2019Seat on the Nov. 3 ballot
- U.S. senators
- Amy Klobuchar · Democratic · since 2007
- Tina Smith · Democratic · since 2018Seat on the Nov. 3 ballot
- U.S. House members
- 8 seats · Democratic: 4, Republican: 4
Sources: National Governors Association (party and start date: Wikidata); congress-legislators (current members of Congress). Checked October 19, 2026.
Voting in Minnesota
We couldn’t check the state election office’s pages word for word (some state sites block automated reading), so we don’t restate its rules here.
For deadlines, ways to vote and to check your registration, see Minnesota’s election office: sos.state.mn.us
Ballot measures1
Federal1
Statewide3
Federal candidate lists come from FEC filings. A candidate is marked “on the ballot” once their campaign files a pre-general report or the state’s official candidate list confirms it; others filed for 2026 but may have lost a primary or withdrawn.