Protecting the majority in the Minnesota State House in 2024 was always going to be tough. While Vice President Harris was expected to win Minnesota — which she did — she won by fewer than 150,000 votes, just 51 percent of the vote. 

Following the election, the Minnesota House was tied, and it was very close. If just 80 votes had changed across one seat, the majority would have held. And the seat that tied the chamber was won by just eight votes. 

After warding off a power grab from the rightwing, lawmakers are back at work in St. Paul. Under a power-sharing agreement, both parties will co-chair most committees, along with an equal number of members serving on those committees.

With a tie in the House, plus the majority in the Senate, and Governor Tim Walz, whose term continues until 2026, lawmakers committed to improving lives can still defend democracy and safeguard Minnesotans’ personal freedoms, and they can make a strong case for majority power in 2026. The road to rebuilding this trifecta starts now!

TSP helped to protect the Senate majority and tie the House.

In the House, the 16 closest seats in the chamber were won or lost by less than 5 percent of the vote. Four key seats were won by fewer than 300 voters, and the closest race came down to 15 votes — a stark indicator of what could have happened in the chamber if we weren’t there. For context, in 2016, when Hillary Clinton won the state by a similar margin to VP Harris, there was a 20-seat rightwing House majority. In 2025, newly elected lawmakers were sworn in to a chamber tied at 67-67.

Giving Circles’ work in Minnesota over the past two cycles helped fuel these results and, crucially, helped to hold the one-seat State Senate majority by powering a special election in November.

Giving Circles raised TSP’s first Minnesota investment — long before most people were thinking about giving political dollars. This kind of early investment was unprecedented in Minnesota, and the outcomes were phenomenal.

We held ground to defend the Minnesota House — we could only afford to lose two seats. In the Senate, we needed to gain three seats for a new majority, and we won the seats we needed.