Democrat Xp Lee won a special election on Tuesday for a seat previously held by the late Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman , who was assassinated in June, and in the process restoring a tie in the Minnesota House.

Lee won the seat over Republican Ruth Bittner with 61% of the vote.

Xp Lee, Democratic candidate for Minnesota house district 34B, knocks on doors during campaigning in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, on Sept. 11, 2025. Mark Vancleave / AP

The election to replace Hortman, a former Minnesota House speaker, took 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. State Sen. John Hoffman and his wife Yvette also were shot in their home, but survived.

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