The Minnesota section of the "blue wall" held firm on Election Day 2024, marking the 13th straight presidential race where the Democratic candidate won the state — and the seventh time that candidate lost.

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With just one newly-elected member to the Minnesota congressional delegation, the results of the Nov. 5 election were more or less status quo for the state’s federal delegation. But there were some interesting developments nonetheless. Here are five takeaways from the night.

Walz returned home from the presidential campaign trail to a new era of divided state government, now that Republicans appear to have broken the full Democratic control that helped put him on Kamala Harris’ radar. He was elected governor in 2018 and was reelected in 2022 in an election that handed Democrats both chambers of the state Legislature.

Among the firsts and would-be firsts were the first woman-majority elected into Minnesota’s delegation to the U.S. House and the missed opportunity to have the state’s first woman governor.

Minnesota’s only newly-elected member of Congress this year won her race by a wide margin in the Third District, where there’s been a tradition of electing moderate Democrats or Republicans.

Speaking in his home state after he and Vice President Kamala Harris lost this week, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota vowed to “stand ready to stand up and fight.”

The DFL monopoly on power in St. Paul is coming to an end. Democrats kept control of the Minnesota Senate with Ann John Stewart winning the only state Senate race on the ballot.