A special election is being held Tuesday for Minnesota Senate District 60, which was earlier vacated due to the death of former DFL Senate Majority Leader Kari Dziedzic. The special election pits Democratic Party candidate Doron Clark against Republican Party candidate Abigail Wolters.

The race’s outcome determines the balance of power in the Senate, which was tied at 33 apiece for the GOP and DFL, but will now lean in the Democrat’s favor. District 60 encompasses all of northeast and southeast Minneapolis and the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood on the opposite side of the Mississippi River.

HENNEPIN COUNTY, Minn. (KIMT) - The Minnesota Senate will be controlled by the DFL after a special election night win in District 60. Doron Clark has defeated Republican candidate Abigail Wolters, winning over 91% of the vote. The special election was held after the death of late DFL Sen. Kari Dziedzic last month from cancer.

Doron Clark will replace the late Senator Kari Dziedzic. The DFLer won with 91% of the vote in the deep blue district. That gives his party a one-seat majority in the chamber.

The Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party will have a majority in the Minnesota Senate once again after their candidate won a special election in a Minneapolis district on Tuesday. Candidate Doron Clark held an overwhelming lead in election results late Tuesday in a DFL-dominated district.

Just one day before the special election, Republicans tried and failed to expel Sen. Nicole Mitchell (D-Woodbury) over burglary charges stemming from an incident at her stepmother

The death of Minneapolis DFL state Sen. Kari Dziedzic left a 33-33 tie in the Minnesota Senate but a special election in her district on Tuesday night changed that. DFLer Doron Clark won in the deep-blue Minneapolis district with 90 percent of the vote.