This chart shows Minnesota legislative races in which incumbents (or endorsed candidates for retiring legislators) have no official challengers yet. We will update this list as candidates come forward. (Names are linked to candidate websites, where available.)

There will be no DFL endorsement prior to the primary contest to take over state Sen. Mee Moua's seat. The decision to forgo an endorsing convention was reached at a gathering of Senate District 67 Democrats last night. That means it will likely be a wide-open primary in the East Side St. Paul district.

Sen. Mee Moua, the first person of Hmong descent to serve in the Minnesota Legislature, announced on the Senate floor today that she is retiring. The three-term St. Paul legislator had not previously announced her plan to step down from the Legislature.

Rep. Laura Brod, R-New Prague, announced this afternoon that she won't seek a fifth term in the Minnesota House.

Eight Minnesota legislative incumbents -- five DFLers and three Republicans -- are facing challenges from members of their own parties this year, not counting six incumbents who have said that they aren't seeking re-election and have fellow party members lining up to succeed them.

Fifteen more Minnesotans have registered campaign committees with the state to run for the state Legislature this year -- and one has dropped out of a House race in the east metro.

Nine more Minnesotans have registered with the Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board to run for seats in the state Legislature this fall.

One of our favorite election-year pastimes is to compile the always-changing list of legislators and districts that both parties are targeting in the general election. Long-time GOP strategists Noah Rouen (now with Public Affairs Company) and Brian McClung (now GOP Gov. Tim Pawlenty's deputy chief of staff) have provided us with our first 2010 list.