Democrat Flanagan holds Minnesota Senate seat

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November 4, 2026 12:10 AM EST

U.S. Democratic Senate candidate and Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota Peggy Flanagan speaks on stage during an election night rally, after news organisations projected a win for her in the primary election in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S., August 11, 2026.

(Corrects date ‌in dateline)

By ​Andy ​Sullivan

WASHINGTON, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Democrat Peggy Flanagan won Minnesota's ‌US Senate race on Tuesday, ⁠US media outlets projected.

Flanagan, the state's ‌lieutenant governor, defeated ‌Republican Michele Tafoya, a former NFL television journalist, extending Democrats' ​Senate winning streak in a state that has not ⁠elected a Republican senator since 2002.

The victory does ​not improve the Democrats' Senate math but prevents it from ​getting worse: they ‌must net four seats to control the 100-seat ⁠chamber, and Flanagan will succeed retiring Democratic Senator Tina Smith.

Tafoya ⁠had sought to distance herself from some of ​President Donald Trump's policies.

Flanagan campaigned against Trump's immigration crackdown, which brought thousands of ‌masked federal agents to Minnesota and led to ‌the shooting deaths of ⁠two US citizens ‌in Minneapolis.

(Reporting ​by Andy Sullivan; Editing by Michael Learmonth and Howard ‌Goller)


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