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The 2008 Minnesota House of Representatives election was held in the U.S. stateofMinnesota on November 4, 2008, to elect members to the House of Representatives of the 86th Minnesota Legislature. A primary election was held in several districts on September 9, 2008.
The Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL) won a majority of seats, remaining the majority party, followed by the Republican Party of Minnesota. The new Legislature convened on January 6, 2009.
| Party | Candidates | Votes | Seats | |||||
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| No. | % | ∆pp | No. | ∆No. | % | |||
| Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party | 134 | 1,516,633 | 54.87 |  0.01
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87 | 2 |
64.93 | |
| Republican Party of Minnesota | 134 | 1,211,020 | 43.81 |  0.63
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47 | 2 |
35.07 | |
| Independence Party of Minnesota | 11 | 14,601 | 0.53 | 0.22
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0 | 
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0.00 | |
| Green Party of Minnesota | 3 | 6,648 | 0.24 | 0.11
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0 |
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0.00 | |
| Independent | 3 | 9,717 | 0.35 | 0.32
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0 |
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0.00 | |
| Write-in | N/A | 5,670 | 0.21 | 0.03
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0.00 | |
| Total | 2,764,289 | 100.00 | ±0.00 | 134 | ±0 | 100.00 | ||
| Invalid/blank votes | 157,209 | 5.38 |  1.48
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| Turnout (out of 3,740,142 eligible voters)[1] | 2,921,498 | 78.11 | 17.64
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| Source: Minnesota Secretary of State,[2] Minnesota Legislative Reference Library[3] | ||||||||
