Result
Rep. Dave Pinto (D-St. Paul) won a seventh term in Minnesota House District 64B on Nov. 3 with no opponent on the ballot, and he returns to a House his party now controls outright. He received 20,940 votes, or 98% of the total, in unofficial results.
His new two-year term begins in January. Pinto, a Ramsey County prosecutor, was first elected in 2014 and spent the last two years in a House split 67 to 67, where the parties shared power under an agreement.
Candidates and Platforms
During the tied session, Pinto co-chaired the House Workforce, Labor and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee and served as the Democrats’ lead on the Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Committee. In a July 17 legislative update, he said he helped protect Minnesota’s Paid Family and Medical Leave and Earned Sick and Safe Time laws.
After a session shaped by the shooting at Annunciation Church in Minneapolis, he authored bills to ban 3D-printed ghost guns and expand the power of cities like St. Paul to regulate guns. Both were part of a gun safety package that passed the Senate but that Pinto said House Republicans blocked.
District and Chamber
District 64B covers southwest St. Paul, including much of the West Seventh and Fort Road area, Pinto wrote in a 2023 neighborhood newspaper column. He and his wife have lived there for more than 20 years and raised two sons who attended St. Paul Public Schools.
Democrats won control of the 134-seat House, breaking the tie, and kept the Senate and governor’s office for a full trifecta. The Associated Press had called 72 House seats for Democrats and 50 for Republicans as of Wednesday morning, Fox 9 reported.
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