One-Fourth of Minnesota Legislators not seeking reelection

Photo by: Minnesota House of Representatives
Photo by: Minnesota House of Representatives

(St. Paul, MN) -- Over a quarter of the Minnesota state legislative body is not seeking reelection.

Fifty-nine Representatives and Senators will not be campaigning again, according to Fox-9 data. This is the highest number of incumbents not seeking another term in Minnesota in over 50 years.

Many of the choices to not run again is based on new redistricting, a legislator must live within the borders of the district they represent, and many of those borders have now changed.