Democrat XP Lee wins Minnesota House special election to replace assassinated leader

Source: Associated Press

By STEVE KARNOWSKI
Updated 6:39 PM PDT, September 16, 2025

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Democrat Xp Lee won a special election Tuesday to fill the Minnesota House seat of a top Democratic leader who was assassinated.

Rep. Melissa Hortman, of Brooklyn Park, held the seat until her death in June.
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Lee’s win restores a 67-67 tie in the House, and it preserves a power-sharing deal that existed for most of the 2025 legislative session, after the 2024 elections cost House Democrats their majority.

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The election to replace Hortman takes place about three months after she and her husband were gunned down in their home by a man impersonating a police officer in Brooklyn Park, a suburb northwest of Minneapolis. Another legislator and his wife also were shot but survived.

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