![]() | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
![]() First preference votes by precinct Frey Dehn Hoch Hodges Levy-Pounds Tie | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Elections in Minnesota |
---|
![]() |
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.
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.
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]
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]
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.
Candidate/Votes by rank | 1 | 2 | 3 | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
Jacob Frey | 24.97% | 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 Dehn | 17.34% | 16.51% | 14.04% | 47.89% |
Nekima Levy-Pounds | 15.06% | 17.43% | 16.31% | 48.80% |
Other or none | 5.28% | 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]
Candidate | Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | Round 4 | Round 5 | |||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
votes (% of active) | transfer | votes (% of active) | transfer | votes (% of active) | transfer | votes (% of active) | transfer | votes (% of active) | ||||||
Jacob Frey | 26,116 | 25.0% | +634 | 26,750 | 26.3% | +2,730 | 29,480 | 29.5% | +9,888 | 39,368 | 42.1% | +7,348 | 46,716 | 57.2% |
Raymond Dehn | 18,101 | 17.3% | +473 | 18,574 | 18.2% | +5,454 | 24,028 | 24.1% | +3,330 | 27,358 | 29.2% | +7,613 | 34,971 | 42.8% |
Betsy Hodges (incumbent) | 18,915 | 18.1% | +552 | 19,467 | 19.1% | +4,044 | 23,511 | 23.6% | +3,364 | 26,875 | 28.7% | −26,875 | ||
Tom Hoch | 20,125 | 19.3% | +787 | 20,912 | 20.5% | +1,842 | 22,754 | 22.8% | −22,754 | |||||
Nekima Levy-Pounds | 15,716 | 15.0% | +473 | 16,189 | 15.9% | −16,189 | ||||||||
Charlie Gers | 1,233 | 1.2% | −1,233 | |||||||||||
Aswar Rahman | 756 | 0.7% | −756 | |||||||||||
Al Flowers | 711 | 0.7% | −711 | |||||||||||
L.A. Nik | 612 | 0.6% | −612 | |||||||||||
David Rosenfeld | 477 | 0.5% | −477 | |||||||||||
Captain Jack Sparrow | 438 | 0.4% | −438 | |||||||||||
Gregg A. Iverson | 335 | 0.3% | −335 | |||||||||||
Ronald Lischeid | 325 | 0.3% | −325 | |||||||||||
David John Wilson | 220 | 0.2% | −220 | |||||||||||
Troy Benjegerdes | 184 | 0.2% | −184 | |||||||||||
Undeclared Write-ins | 138 | 0.1% | −138 | |||||||||||
Ian Simpson | 119 | 0.1% | −119 | |||||||||||
Christopher Robin Zimmerman | 1 | 0.0% | −1 | |||||||||||
Theron Preston Washington | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | |||||||||||
Active Ballots (% of Valid) | 104,522 | 100% | 101,892 | 97.5% | 99,773 | 95.5% | 93,601 | 89.6% | 81,687 | 78.2% | ||||
Exhausted Ballots (% of Valid) | 0 | 0.0% | +2,630 | 2,630 | 2.5% | +2,119 | 4,749 | 4.5% | +6,172 | 10,921 | 10.4% | +11,914 | 22,835 | 21.8% |
Total Valid Ballots | 104,522 | 104,522 | 104,522 | 104,522 | 104,522 |
Source: Minneapolis Elections & Voter Services [40]
Elizabeth A.Hodges is an American politician who served as the 47th Mayor of Minneapolis from 2014 to 2018. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), she represented Ward 13 on the Minneapolis City Council from 2006 January 2014.
Gary Schiff is an American politician and activist who represented Ward 9 on the Minneapolis City Council. A member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL), he was first elected in 2001 and re-elected in 2005 and 2009. Prior to his political career, Schiff was involved with a variety of activist groups and causes ranging from human rights with the Human Rights Campaign, to historic preservation with Save Our Shubert.
The 2013 Minneapolis mayoral election was held on November 5, 2013, to elect the mayor of Minneapolis for a four-year term. This was the second mayoral election in the city's history to use instant-runoff voting, popularly known as ranked choice voting, first implemented in the city's 2009 elections. Municipal elections in Minnesota are nonpartisan, although candidates are able to identify with a political party on the ballot. After incumbent Mayor R. T. Rybak announced in late 2012 that he would not seek a fourth term, 35 candidates began campaigns to replace him. Many of these candidates sought the endorsement of the Minneapolis unit of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), though the convention ultimately ended with no endorsement.
Raymond Howard Dehn is a Minnesota politician and community organizer who served in the Minnesota House of Representatives. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), he last represented District 59B in Minneapolis. He was a candidate for mayor of Minneapolis in 2017.
Mohamud Noor is an American politician serving in the Minnesota House of Representatives since 2019. A member of the Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), Noor represents District 60B, which includes parts of the city of Minneapolis in Hennepin County.
Nekima Valdez Levy Armstrong is an American lawyer and social justice activist. She was president of the Minneapolis chapter of the NAACP from 2015 to 2016. She has led a variety of organizations that focus on issues of racial equality and disparity in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area.
John M. Quincy is an American politician and marketing consultant living in Minneapolis. From 2010–2018, he served two terms on the Minneapolis City Council as a representative of the city's 11th Ward. Quincy moved to Minneapolis in 1994 and sought the endorsement of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL) in 2006 for a seat on the Minneapolis Board of Education which he did not receive. He won both the DFL's endorsement and the 2009 City Council election and served as the head of several committees. He has also acted as a member of the Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport's Noise Oversight Committee.
The 2018 Minnesota gubernatorial election took place on November 6, to elect the 41st Governor of Minnesota as incumbent Democratic governor Mark Dayton chose not to run for re-election for a third term. The Democratic nominee was congressman Tim Walz from Minnesota's 1st congressional district while the Republicans nominated Hennepin County commissioner Jeff Johnson. The Independence Party of Minnesota didn't field a candidate for the first time since 1994. Going into the election the polls showed Walz ahead and the race was characterized as lean or likely DFL.
Jacob Lawrence Frey is an American politician and attorney who has served as the mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota since 2018. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party, he served on the Minneapolis City Council from 2014 to 2018.
A general election was held in Minneapolis on November 7, 2017. Minneapolis's mayor was up for election as well as all the seats on the City Council, the two elected seats on the Board of Estimate and Taxation, and all the seats on the Park and Recreation Board. Voters were able to rank up to three candidates for each office in order of preference.
The 2017 Minneapolis City Council election was held on November 7, 2017, to elect the members of the Minneapolis City Council. The political composition remained unchanged, with the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL) retaining 12 seats and the Green Party of Minnesota one seat. Three DFL incumbents were defeated by intraparty opponents. The new City Council convened on January 8, 2018.
Phillipe M. Cunningham is a former city council member for Minneapolis Ward 4 and the first transgender man of color to be elected to public office in the United States. Cunningham won the council position in the 2017 Minneapolis City Council election and lost it in the 2021 election.
The 2018 Minnesota Attorney General election was held on November 6, 2018, to elect the attorney general of the U.S. state of Minnesota. A primary election was held on August 14, 2018, in which Doug Wardlow was nominated as the Republican candidate and Keith Ellison was nominated as the Democratic–Farmer–Labor (DFL) candidate. Ellison won the election.
Robert J. Kroll is an American former police officer and member of the Minneapolis Police Department. He was the president of the Police Officers Federation of Minneapolis, the police union for the police department, from 2015 to 2021. Over the course of his career, Kroll was involved in three officer-involved shootings, had 20 internal affairs complaints, and was the subject of several lawsuits. Kroll has been a longtime opponent to reforms of the police department, including calls to address racial bias within the force and reduce the number of people killed by police. Kroll has generated controversy on a number of occasions. In particular, his comments following the murder of George Floyd in May 2020 resulted in calls for his resignation, including from a number of unions, several former mayors of Minneapolis, and a former police chief. Kroll's comments were "Now is not the time rush to judgement and immediately condemn our officers. An in-depth investigation is underway. Our officers are fully cooperating. We must review all video. We must wait for the medical examiner’s report."
A mayoral election was held on November 2, 2021, to elect the mayor of the U.S. city of Minneapolis. Incumbent DFL mayor Jacob Frey won reelection to a second term, becoming the first Minneapolis mayor to win a second term since R. T. Rybak in 2005. Minneapolis mayoral elections use instant-runoff voting, also known as ranked-choice voting. All candidates appear on the same ballot and there is no primary election, nor is there a runoff. Minneapolis's twin city, Saint Paul, also held a mayoral election on the same day, using the same system.
Esther Agbaje is an American politician serving in the Minnesota House of Representatives since 2021. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), Agbaje represents District 59B, which includes portions of north and downtown Minneapolis in Hennepin County, Minnesota.
The city of Saint Paul, Minnesota held an election on November 2, 2021, to elect the mayor. It was held with ranked-choice voting, and there was no primary election. Few candidates filed to challenge incumbent mayor Melvin Carter III, and he easily won a second term with over 60% of first-preference votes.
Emma Greenman is an American politician who has served in the Minnesota House of Representatives since 2021. A member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL), Greenman represents District 63B, which includes parts of south Minneapolis in Hennepin County, Minnesota.
Don Samuels is an American politician and activist, who served as a member of the Minneapolis City Council from 2003 to 2014. A member of the Democratic Party, Samuels came to national attention as a candidate for the DFL nomination for Minnesota's 5th congressional district, for which he placed an unexpectedly close second to incumbent Ilhan Omar in the 2022 primary.
The 2022 Hennepin County Attorney election was held on November 8, 2022, to elect the County attorney of Hennepin County, Minnesota. On September 1, 2021, incumbent county attorney Michael O. Freeman announced that he would retire at the end of his term after 24 years in the role. Former Hennepin County Chief Public Defender Mary Moriarty defeated former Hennepin County judge Martha Holton Dimick and became the first openly LGBTQ woman elected as Hennepin County Attorney.
{{cite web}}
: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)