Minneapolis City Council election, 2017

Minneapolis City Council election, 2017
All 13 seats on the Minneapolis City Council ; 7 seats needed for a majority
President before election; Barb Johnson; DFL	Elected President; Lisa Bender ; DFL

Last updated April 25, 2019

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.

The Minneapolis City Council is the governing body of the City of Minneapolis. It consists of 13 members, elected from separate wards to four-year terms. The Council is dominated by members of the DFL, with a total of 12 members. The Green Party of Minnesota has one member, Cam Gordon.

The Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL) is a center-left political party in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It is affiliated with the U.S. Democratic Party. Formed by a merger of the Minnesota Democratic Party and the left-wing Minnesota Farmer–Labor Party in 1944, the DFL is one of only two state Democratic party affiliates of a different name.

The Green Party of Minnesota is a green political party in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It is affiliated with the Green Party of the United States.

Retiring members

DFL

Elizabeth Glidden, Ward 8^[1]
Jacob Frey, Ward 3
- Ran for mayor of Minneapolis.^[2]

Jacob Frey is the mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota. A member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, he was elected to the Minneapolis City Council in 2013, representing the Third Ward.

Electoral system

The 13 members of the City Council were elected from single-member districts via instant-runoff voting, commonly known as ranked choice voting, for four-year terms. Voters had the option of ranking up to three candidates in order of preference. Municipal elections in Minnesota are officially nonpartisan, although candidates were able to identify with a political party on the ballot. Write-in candidates must have filed a request with the Minneapolis Elections & Voter Services Division for votes for them to be counted.

A single-member district or single-member constituency is an electoral district that returns one officeholder to a body with multiple members such as a legislature. This is also sometimes called single-winner voting or winner takes all. The alternative are multi-member districts, or the election of a body by the whole electorate voting as one constituency.

Instant-runoff voting (IRV) or Ranked choice voting (RCV) is a type of ranked preferential voting method used in single-seat elections with more than two candidates. Instead of indicating support for only one candidate, voters in IRV elections can rank the candidates in order of preference. Ballots are initially counted for each voter's top choice. If a candidate has more than half of the vote based on first-choices, that candidate wins. If not, then the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated. The voters who selected the defeated candidate as a first choice then have their votes added to the totals of their next choice. This process continues until a candidate has more than half of the votes. When the field is reduced to two, it has become an "instant runoff" that allows a comparison of the top two candidates head-to-head.

A write-in candidate is a candidate in an election whose name does not appear on the ballot, but for whom voters may vote nonetheless by writing in the person's name. The system is almost totally confined to elections in the United States. Some U.S. states and local jurisdictions allow a voter to affix a sticker, with the write-in candidate's name, to the ballot in lieu of actually writing in the candidate's name. Write-in candidacies are sometimes a result of a candidate being legally or procedurally ineligible to run under his or her own name or party; write-in candidacies may be permitted where term limits bar an incumbent candidate from being officially nominated for, or being listed on the ballot for, re-election. In some cases, write-in campaigns have been organized to support a candidate who is not personally involved in running; this may be a form of draft campaign.

Candidates

Ward	Incumbent			Candidates
Ward	Name	Party	First elected	Name	Party	Party endorsement
1	Kevin Reich	DFL	2009	John Hayden^[3]	Independent
				Jillia Pessenda^[4]	DFL
				Kevin Reich^[4]	DFL
2	Cam Gordon	Green	2005	Cam Gordon ^[5]	Green	Fifth District Green Party^[6]
3	Jacob Frey ^{[nb 1]}	DFL	2013	Tim Bildsoe^[7]	DFL
				Steve Fletcher^[8]	DFL	Minneapolis DFL^[9]
				Ginger Jentzen^[10]	Socialist Alternative	Socialist Alternative^[11]
				Samantha Pree-Stinson^[8]	Green	Fifth District Green Party^[6]
4	Barb Johnson	DFL	1997	Phillipe Cunningham ^[12]	DFL
				Stephanie Gasca^[13]	DFL
				Dana Hansen^[14]	Libertarian	Libertarian Party of Minnesota^[15]
				Barb Johnson^[16]	DFL
5	Blong Yang	DFL	2013	Jeremiah Ellison^[17]	DFL	Minneapolis DFL^[18]
				Cathy Spann^[17]	DFL
				Raeisha Williams^[17]	DFL
				Blong Yang^[17]	DFL
6	Abdi Warsame	DFL	2013	Mohamud Noor ^[19]	DFL
				Abdi Warsame ^[19]	DFL	Minneapolis DFL^[20]
				Fadumo Yusuf^[21]	Republican	Minneapolis City Republican Committee^[22]
7	Lisa Goodman	DFL	1997	Janne Flisrand^[23]	DFL
				Lisa Goodman^[24]	DFL
				Joe Kovacs^[21]	Republican	Minneapolis City Republican Committee^[22]
				Teqen Zéa-Aida^[25]	DFL
8	Elizabeth Glidden^{[nb 1]}	DFL	2005	David Holsinger^[26]	Libertarian	Libertarian Party of Minnesota^[15]
				Andrea Jenkins ^[27]	DFL	Minneapolis DFL^[28]
				April Kane^[26]	DFL
				Terry White^[5]	Green	Fifth District Green Party^[6]
9	Alondra Cano	DFL	2013	Alondra Cano^[29]	DFL	Minneapolis DFL^[30]
				Mohamed Farah^[29]	DFL
				Ronald Peterson^[31]	Republican
				Gary Schiff ^[32]	DFL
10	Lisa Bender	DFL	2013	Lisa Bender ^[33]	DFL	Minneapolis DFL^[34]
				Bruce Lundeen^[35]	Republican	Minneapolis City Republican Committee^[22]
				Saralyn Romanishan^[36]	DFL
				David Schorn^[37]	DFL
11	John Quincy	DFL	2009	Erica Mauter^[38]	DFL
				John Quincy ^[39]	DFL
				Jeremy Schroeder^[39]	DFL
12	Andrew Johnson	DFL	2013	Harrison Bullard^[40]	Independent^{[nb 2]}
				Will Jaeger^[41]	Independent
				Andrew Johnson ^[42]	DFL	Minneapolis DFL^[42]
13	Linea Palmisano	DFL	2013	Linea Palmisano^[43]	DFL	Minneapolis DFL^[28]
13	Linea Palmisano	DFL	2013	Bob Reuer^[44]	Independent

Results

There were clear winners in several wards on election night. Green Council Member Cam Gordon (Ward 2), who did not have an opponent, won re-election. Other council members who won on election night include DFLers Lisa Goodman (Ward 7), Lisa Bender (Ward 10), Andrew Johnson (Ward 12), and Linea Palmisano (Ward 13). Ward 8 DFL candidate Andrea Jenkins also won, replacing retiring DFL Council Member Elizabeth Glidden. Wards which did not have a clear winner underwent several rounds of vote transfers on November 8.^[45]

Cameron A. "Cam" Gordon is an American politician and member of the Green Party in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has been an elected member of the Minneapolis City Council since 2006. He was a co-founder of the Green Party of Minnesota and has been called "the most prominent Green elected official in the US."

Lisa Bender Minnesota DFL politician and city planner

Elizabeth Peterson "Lisa" Bender is an American Minnesota DFL politician and city planner living in Minneapolis, currently serving her second term on the Minneapolis City Council as a representative of the city's 10th Ward. In 2018, she was unanimously elected president of the Minneapolis City Council.

Andrew Johnson is an American politician and systems engineer from Minneapolis, currently representing the city's 12th Ward on the Minneapolis City Council. Formerly president of the Longfellow Community Council, Johnson was first elected in 2013 as a member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL) and became the council's youngest sitting member at 29 years old. During his first term, he has focused on ridding the city's code of ordinances of outdated, contradictory, and burdensome rules.

Three incumbents lost re-election. DFL Council President Barb Johnson (Ward 4) lost to DFL candidate Phillipe Cunningham, DFL Council Member Blong Yang (Ward 5) to DFL candidate Jeremiah Ellison, and DFL Council Member John Quincy (Ward 11) to DFL candidate Jeremy Schroeder. DFL Council Members Kevin Reich (Ward 1), Abdi Warsame (Ward 6), and Alondra Cano (Ward 9) retained their seats.

Phillipe Cunningham is the city councilperson for Minneapolis Ward 4 and one of the first openly transgender men to be elected to public office in the United States. In the Minneapolis City Council election, 2017, Cunningham won over 20-year incumbent Barb Johnson by 157 votes. Cunningham identifies as black, queer, and trans.

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.

Abdi Warsame is a Somali-American politician and member of the Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party in Minneapolis, Minnesota. After moving to London as an asylum seeker, he immigrated to Minnesota in 2006. In November 2013, he was elected to the Minneapolis City Council, becoming the first Somali official to be elected to the position. Warsame was reelected for a second term in 2017.

In Ward 3, DFL candidate Steve Fletcher won over Socialist Alternative candidate Ginger Jentzen, who won the most first-choice votes but did not gain sufficient transfer votes. This was the first occurrence of the initial leader not ending up the winner of an election in Minneapolis since it switched to ranked-choice voting in 2009.^[46] A similar situation subsequently occurred in Ward 4 in which Johnson lost to Cunningham.

Socialist Alternative (SA) is a Trotskyist political party in the United States. It describes itself as "a national organization fighting in our workplaces, communities, and campuses against the exploitation and injustices people face every day" and "a community of activists fighting against budget cuts in public services; fighting for living wage jobs and militant, democratic unions; and people of all colors speaking out against racism and attacks on immigrants, students organizing against tuition hikes and war, women and men fighting sexism and homophobia".

Jenkins and Cunningham are the first transgender persons to be elected to the City Council.^[47]

Party		Candidates	1st Choice Votes			Seats
Party		Candidates	No.	%	∆pp	No.	∆No.	%
	Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party	29	84,203	82.69	+3.38	12	0	92.31
	Green Party of Minnesota	3	7,926	7.78	+0.42	1	0	7.69
	Socialist Alternative	1	3,297	3.24	+1.16	0	0	0.00
	Republican Party of Minnesota	4	1,365	1.34	+0.68	0	0	0.00
	Libertarian Party of Minnesota	2	607	0.60	+0.34	0	0	0.00
	Independent	4	3,958	3.89	−4.14	0	0	0.00
	Write-in	N/A	472	0.46	−0.38	0	0	0.00
Total			101,828	100.00	±0.00	13	±0	100.00
Valid votes			101,828	96.13	+1.97
Overvotes			7	0.01	−0.03
Undervotes			4,093	3.86	−1.94
Turnout (out of 249,512 registered voters)^[48]			105,928	42.45	+9.07

Ward 1

Party		Candidate	% 1st Choice	Round 1	Round 2	% Final
	Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party	Kevin Reich	45.97	4,015	4,296	49.19
	Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party	Jillia Pessenda	44.03	3,846	4,112	47.08
	Independent	John Hayden	9.77	853
	Write-in	N/A	0.23	20
Exhausted ballots					326	3.73
Valid votes				8,734
Threshold				4,368
Undervotes				130
Turnout (out of 19,722 registered voters)^[48]			44.94	8,864
Source: Minneapolis Elections & Voter Services^[49]

Ward 2

Party		Candidate	% 1st Choice	Round 1
	Green Party of Minnesota	Cam Gordon	97.27	5,912
	Write-in	N/A	2.73	166
Valid votes				6,078
Maximum possible threshold				3,518
Overvotes				1
Undervotes				955
Turnout (out of 17,702 registered voters)^[48]			39.74	7,034
Source: Minneapolis Elections & Voter Services^[50]

Ward 3

Party		Candidate	% 1st Choice	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	% Final
	Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party	Steve Fletcher	28.24	2,709	3,103	4,861	50.68
	Socialist Alternative	Ginger Jentzen	34.37	3,297	3,598	3,844	40.08
	Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party	Tim Bildsoe	26.61	2,552	2,734
	Green Party of Minnesota	Samantha Pree-Stinson	10.50	1,007
	Write-in	N/A	0.28	27
Exhausted ballots					157	887	9.25
Valid votes				9,592
Threshold				4,797
Undervotes				285
Turnout (out of 24,522 registered voters)^[48]			40.28	9,877
Source: Minneapolis Elections & Voter Services^[51]

Ward 4

Party		Candidate	% 1st Choice	Round 1	Round 2	% Final
	Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party	Phillipe Cunningham	40.66	2,140	2,605	49.50
	Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party	Barb Johnson	42.90	2,258	2,430	46.17
	Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party	Stephanie Gasca	12.05	634
	Libertarian Party of Minnesota	Dana Hansen	4.18	220
	Write-in	N/A	0.21	11
Exhausted ballots					228	4.33
Valid votes				5,263
Threshold				2,632
Undervotes				86
Turnout (out of 17,156 registered voters)^[48]			31.18	5,349
Source: Minneapolis Elections & Voter Services^[52]

Ward 5

Party		Candidate	% 1st Choice	Round 1	Round 2	% Final
	Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party	Jeremiah Ellison	47.13	1,987	2,313	54.86
	Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party	Blong Yang	38.35	1,617	1,769	41.96
	Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party	Raeisha Williams	10.56	445
	Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party	Cathy Spann	3.77	159
	Write-in	N/A	0.19	8
Exhausted ballots					134	3.18
Valid votes				4,216
Threshold				2,109
Undervotes				62
Turnout (out of 15,302 registered voters)^[48]			27.96	4,278
Source: Minneapolis Elections & Voter Services^[53]

Ward 6

Party		Candidate	% 1st Choice	Round 1
	Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party	Abdi Warsame	50.17	3,629
	Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party	Mohamud Noor	46.86	3,390
	Republican Party of Minnesota	Fadumo Yusuf	2.53	183
	Write-in	Tiffini Forslund	0.08	6
	Write-in	N/A	0.36	26
Valid votes				7,234
Threshold				3,618
Undervotes				163
Turnout (out of 15,725 registered voters)^[48]			47.04	7,397
Source: Minneapolis Elections & Voter Services^[54]

Ward 7

Party		Candidate	% 1st Choice	Round 1
	Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party	Lisa Goodman	52.26	4,742
	Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party	Janne Flisrand	31.21	2,832
	Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party	Teqen Zéa-Aida	9.79	888
	Republican Party of Minnesota	Joe Kovacs	6.60	599
	Write-in	N/A	0.14	13
Valid votes				9,074
Maximum possible threshold				4,628
Overvotes				3
Undervotes				178
Turnout (out of 20,789 registered voters)^[48]			44.52	9,255
Source: Minneapolis Elections & Voter Services^[55]

Ward 8

Party		Candidate	% 1st Choice	Round 1
	Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party	Andrea Jenkins	73.09	5,762
	Green Party of Minnesota	Terry White	12.77	1,007
	Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party	April Kane	9.01	710
	Libertarian Party of Minnesota	David Holsinger	4.91	387
	Write-in	N/A	0.22	17
Valid votes				7,883
Maximum possible threshold				4,138
Overvotes				1
Undervotes				391
Turnout (out of 18,090 registered voters)^[48]			45.74	8,275
Source: Minneapolis Elections & Voter Services^[56]

Ward 9

Party		Candidate	% 1st Choice	Round 1	Round 2	% Final
	Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party	Alondra Cano	47.53	2,623	2,982	54.03
	Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party	Gary Schiff	29.43	1,624	1,934	35.04
	Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party	Mohamed Farah	19.64	1,084
	Republican Party of Minnesota	Ronald Peterson	3.03	167
	Write-in	N/A	0.38	21
Exhausted ballots					603	10.93
Valid votes				5,519
Threshold				2,760
Undervotes				131
Turnout (out of 13,111 registered voters)^[48]			43.09	5,650
Source: Minneapolis Elections & Voter Services^[57]

Ward 10

Party		Candidate	% 1st Choice	Round 1
	Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party	Lisa Bender	64.34	4,883
	Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party	Saralyn Romanishan	20.57	1,561
	Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party	David Schorn	9.34	709
	Republican Party of Minnesota	Bruce Lundeen	5.48	416
	Write-in	N/A	0.26	20
Valid votes				7,589
Maximum possible threshold				3,956
Undervotes				322
Turnout (out of 20,942 registered voters)^[48]			37.78	7,911
Source: Minneapolis Elections & Voter Services^[58]

Ward 11

Party		Candidate	% 1st Choice	Round 1	Round 2	% Final
	Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party	Jeremy Schroeder	35.26	3,230	4,757	51.93
	Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party	John Quincy	34.93	3,200	3,981	43.46
	Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party	Erica Mauter	29.43	2,696
	Write-in	N/A	0.37	34
Exhausted ballots					422	4.61
Valid votes				9,160
Threshold				4,581
Undervotes				432
Turnout (out of 20,264 registered voters)^[48]			47.34	9,592
Source: Minneapolis Elections & Voter Services^[59]

Ward 12

Party		Candidate	% 1st Choice	Round 1
	Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party	Andrew Johnson	87.15	8,874
	Independent	Will Jaeger	9.40	957
	Independent ^{[nb 2]}	Harrison Bullard	3.10	316
	Write-in	N/A	0.34	35
Valid votes				10,182
Maximum possible threshold				5,353
Undervotes				522
Turnout (out of 22,735 registered voters)^[48]			47.08	10,704
Source: Minneapolis Elections & Voter Services^[60]

Ward 13

Party		Candidate	% 1st Choice	Round 1
	Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party	Linea Palmisano	83.19	9,404
	Independent	Bob Reuer	16.21	1,832
	Write-in	N/A	0.60	68
Valid votes				11,304
Maximum possible threshold				5,872
Overvotes				2
Undervotes				436
Turnout (out of 23,452 registered voters)^[48]			50.07	11,742
Source: Minneapolis Elections & Voter Services^[61]

President of the City Council election

After the election, which resulted in the defeat of Council President Barb Johnson, it was reported that DFL Council Members Lisa Bender, Linea Palmisano, and Council Member-elect Andrea Jenkins were seeking to replace her.^[62] When the new City Council convened on January 8, 2018, it unanimously elected Bender to be president.^[63]

Following Bender's election, it was revealed that Jenkins and Palmisano were respectively seeking to be elected president and vice-president as a ticket. Bender said that while she had the votes to defeat them and install her supporters as chairs of choice committees, she wanted to avoid the Council splitting into factions that had sometimes characterized the previous City Council. As part of a deal to get her unanimous support and to present a united front, Bender agreed that Jenkins would be vice-president, who was also elected unanimously.^[63]^[64] A new committee structure was agreed to and council members that did not nominally support her would be given choice committee chairs.^[64] Bender said that all council members had to compromise. A final deal was not reached until January 7.^[63]

Notes

1 2 Retired; did not seek re-election.
1 2 Political principle listed on affidavit of candidacy: "Independent Health Labor".^[40]

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↑ "2017 Minneapolis Election Results: City Council Ward 7". Minneapolis Elections & Voter Services. Retrieved November 8, 2017.
↑ "2017 Minneapolis Election Results: City Council Ward 8". Minneapolis Elections & Voter Services. Retrieved November 8, 2017.
↑ "2017 Minneapolis Election Results: City Council Ward 9 Ranked-Choice Voting Tabulation Summary". Minneapolis Elections & Voter Services. Retrieved November 8, 2017.
↑ "2017 Minneapolis Election Results: City Council Ward 10". Minneapolis Elections & Voter Services. Retrieved November 8, 2017.
↑ "2017 Minneapolis Election Results: City Council Ward 11 Ranked-Choice Voting Tabulation Summary". Minneapolis Elections & Voter Services. Retrieved November 8, 2017.
↑ "2017 Minneapolis Election Results: City Council Ward 12". Minneapolis Elections & Voter Services. Retrieved November 8, 2017.
↑ "2017 Minneapolis Election Results: City Council Ward 13". Minneapolis Elections & Voter Services. Retrieved November 8, 2017.
↑ Belz, Adam (November 16, 2017). "Minneapolis City Council members turn attention to picking their new president". Star Tribune . Retrieved November 17, 2017.
1 2 3 Belz, Adam (January 9, 2018). "Minneapolis Mayor Frey, council members celebrate swearing-in ceremony at City Hall". Star Tribune . Retrieved January 9, 2018.
1 2 Callaghan, Peter (January 9, 2018). "Mayor, new Minneapolis Council members pledge unity, collaboration, and more unity". MinnPost . Retrieved January 9, 2018.

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[retiring-7] 1 2 Retired; did not seek re-election.

[bullardpp-42] 1 2 Political principle listed on affidavit of candidacy: "Independent Health Labor".^[40]

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[swj_20161206-40] 1 2 Thomas, Dylan (December 6, 2016). "Nonprofit executive to challenge Quincy in Ward 11". Southwest Journal. Retrieved December 7, 2016.

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[st_20180109-65] 1 2 3 Belz, Adam (January 9, 2018). "Minneapolis Mayor Frey, council members celebrate swearing-in ceremony at City Hall". Star Tribune . Retrieved January 9, 2018.

[mp_20180109-66] 1 2 Callaghan, Peter (January 9, 2018). "Mayor, new Minneapolis Council members pledge unity, collaboration, and more unity". MinnPost . Retrieved January 9, 2018.