The Minnesota Senate is the upper house in the Minnesota State Legislature. There are 67 members, half as many as are in the Minnesota House of Representatives. Each Senate district in the state includes an A and B House district (i.e. Senate district 32 contains House districts 32A and 32B). Members are usually elected to four year terms except for when districts are redrawn after the census, when they are elected for a two year term. The state legislature is located in the Minnesota State Capitol building in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
2005 make up of Senate 36 in DFL caucus (includes 1 IPM) and 31 Republicans.
State Senate website (http://www.senate.leg.state.mn.us)
Minnesota Territory was carved out of Iowa Territory on March 3, 1849, but it was not coextensive with the present state, since the area included what later became the territory of Dakota (which later still became the states of North Dakota and South Dakota).
The state is bordered on the north by Canada (Manitoba and Ontario), on the east by Wisconsin and Lake Superior, on the south by Iowa, and on the west by North Dakota and South Dakota.
The state population, as of 2003, was 5,059,375 (1.75% of the total national population), with a growth rate of 12.4% in the last 10 years (compared to 13.1% for the nation).
The MinnesotaSenate is the upper house in the Minnesota Legislature.
The state legislature is located in the MinnesotaState Capitol building in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
In 2005, the Senate had 36 senators in the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party caucus, including one Independence Party of Minnesotasenator and 31 members of the Republican Party of Minnesota.
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