(Reuters) – Republican Brad Finstad on Tuesday won an election to fill a U.S. House of Representatives seat for Minnesota left vacant after the death of Republican lawmaker Jim Hagedorn, Edison Research projected.
Finstad, a former agriculture official in the Trump administration, defeated Democrat Jeff Ettinger, a former CEO of Hormel Foods, to keep Minnesota’s 1st Congressional District in Republican hands.
(Reporting by Reuters staff; Editing by Alistair Bell)