2017 Minneapolis mayoral election

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2017 Minneapolis mayoral election
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Candidate Jacob Frey Raymond Dehn Betsy Hodges
Party Democratic (DFL) Democratic (DFL) Democratic (DFL)
First round26,116
(25.0%)		18,101
(17.3%)		18,915
(18.1%)
Final round46,716
(57.2%)		34,791
(42.8%)		Eliminated
  Tom Hoch, Minneapolis MayDay Parade, May 2017 (cropped).jpg Nekima Levy-Pounds - Jamar Clark Press Conference (cropped).jpg
CandidateTom Hoch Nekima Levy-Pounds
Party Democratic (DFL) Democratic (DFL)
First round20,125
(19.3%)		15,716
(15.0%)
Final roundEliminatedEliminated
2017 Minneapolis mayoral election results by precinct.svg
First preference votes by precinct
     Frey     Dehn     Hoch     Hodges     Levy-Pounds     Tie
Mayor before election

Betsy Hodges
Democratic (DFL)

Elected Mayor

Jacob Frey
Democratic (DFL)

The 2017 Minneapolis mayoral election was held on November 7, 2017, to elect the Mayor of Minneapolis. This was the third mayoral election in the city's history to use ranked-choice voting. Municipal elections in Minnesota are nonpartisan, although candidates were able to identify with a political party on the ballot.

Contents

No candidate achieved a majority in the first round of ballot counting on election night. Jacob Frey was declared the winner the next day after several rounds of vote tabulations.

Background

2013 election

Betsy Hodges was elected mayor of Minneapolis on November 5, 2013, out of a field of 35 candidates, with her term beginning on January 2, 2014. In response to the large candidate field, the Minneapolis Charter Commission approved a referendum increasing the filing fee from $20 to $500. [1] The proposal was approved by voters on November 4, 2014. [2]

Campaign

In a blog letter dated November 7, 2016, a housing activist and longtime Minneapolis resident known as Captain Jack Sparrow announced his candidacy for mayor in the 2017 election; this was his third election campaign for office in the past 6 years. [3] Nekima Levy-Pounds, an attorney, civil rights activist, and former president of the Minneapolis NAACP, was one of the first candidates to begin their campaign, with an announcement on November 14, 2016. Hodges announced her re-election campaign on December 15, 2016. City Council member Jacob Frey and filmmaker Aswar Rahman entered in early January, while State Representative Raymond Dehn and theatre executive Tom Hoch announced their campaigns in February. [4] [5] [6] David John Wilson, an active member of the Democratic Farmer-Labor (DFL) party, entered the race during the candidate filing period in August 2017, but he declined to identify by party affiliation in favor of the stated principle "Rainbows Butterflies Unicorns". [7] Ian Simpson ran under the platform of the Idea Party, which asks the citizens of Minneapolis to pitch in their own creative solutions for change. [8] [9]

Formal candidate filing began on August 1, 2017. Political parties held caucuses and conventions in the spring and summer, deciding whether to endorse a candidate for election. The DFL did not endorse a Minneapolis mayoral candidate at its July 2017 convention. [10]

On October 27, the Star Tribune editorial staff endorsed Jacob Frey for mayor. [11] This was followed by an endorsement of Frey by the Minnesota Daily on October 30. [12]

Candidates

Democratic-Farmer-Labor

Independent

Farmer Labor

Basic Income Guarantee

Socialist Workers Party

Libertarian

Rainbow, Butterflies, Unicorns

The Idea Party

Results

No candidate achieved a majority in the first round on election night. Several rounds of vote transfers were necessary to determine a winner, a process which did not start until the next day. [36]

Candidates whose total votes in all ranked positions are less than the highest votes in first rank are immediately eliminated. In 2017 five candidates remained for the sequential elimination process.

Votes by ranking of candidates above 2% [37]
Candidate/Votes by rank123Total
Jacob Frey24.97%19.90%14.39%59.26%
Tom Hoch 19.27%18.67%13.22%51.16%
Betsy Hodges (incumbent)18.08%16.57%21.57%56.22%
Raymond Dehn17.34%16.51%14.04%47.89%
Nekima Levy-Pounds15.06%17.43%16.31%48.80%
Other or none5.28%10.92%20.47%

With four rounds of elimination, Jacob Frey was announced as the winner on Wednesday, November 8, at 2 pm, 18 hours after the polls closed. [38]

Runoff round tabulation [39]
CandidateRound 1Round 2Round 3Round 4Round 5
votes
(% of active)		transfervotes
(% of active)		transfervotes
(% of active)		transfervotes
(% of active)		transfervotes
(% of active)
Jacob Frey 26,11625.0%+63426,75026.3%+2,73029,48029.5%+9,88839,36842.1%+7,34846,71657.2%
Raymond Dehn 18,10117.3%+47318,57418.2%+5,45424,02824.1%+3,33027,35829.2%+7,61334,97142.8%
Betsy Hodges (incumbent)18,91518.1%+55219,46719.1%+4,04423,51123.6%+3,36426,87528.7%−26,875
Tom Hoch20,12519.3%+78720,91220.5%+1,84222,75422.8%−22,754
Nekima Levy-Pounds 15,71615.0%+47316,18915.9%−16,189
Charlie Gers1,2331.2%−1,233
Aswar Rahman7560.7%−756
Al Flowers7110.7%−711
L.A. Nik6120.6%−612
David Rosenfeld4770.5%−477
Captain Jack Sparrow4380.4%−438
Gregg A. Iverson3350.3%−335
Ronald Lischeid3250.3%−325
David John Wilson2200.2%−220
Troy Benjegerdes1840.2%−184
Undeclared Write-ins1380.1%−138
Ian Simpson1190.1%−119
Christopher Robin Zimmerman10.0%−1
Theron Preston Washington00.0%0
Active Ballots (% of Valid)104,522100%101,89297.5%99,77395.5%93,60189.6%81,68778.2%
Exhausted Ballots (% of Valid)00.0%+2,6302,6302.5%+2,1194,7494.5%+6,17210,92110.4%+11,91422,83521.8%
Total Valid Ballots104,522104,522104,522104,522104,522

Source: Minneapolis Elections & Voter Services [40]

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