Minneapolis mayoral election, 2017

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Minneapolis mayoral election, 2017
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Candidate Jacob Frey Raymond Dehn
Party DFL DFL
Popular vote26,116 (1st round)
46,716 (5th round)		18,101 (1st round)
34,971 (5th round)
Percentage25.0% (1st round)
57.2% (5th round)		17.3% (4th in 1st round)
42.8% (5th round)
  Betsy Hodges 2014.jpg Tom Hoch, Minneapolis MayDay Parade, May 2017 (cropped).jpg Nekima Levy-Pounds - Jamar Clark Press Conference (cropped).jpg
Candidate Betsy Hodges Tom Hoch Nekima Levy-Pounds
Party DFL DFL DFL
Popular vote18,915 (1st round)
26,875 (4th round)		20,125 (1st round)
22,754 (3rd round)		15,716 (1st round)
16,189 (2nd round)
Percentage18.1% (3rd in 1st round)
28.7% (last in 4th round)		19.3% (2nd in 1st round)
22.8% (last in 3rd round)		15.0% (5th in 1st round)
15.9% (last in 2nd round)
Mayor before election

Betsy Hodges
DFL

Elected Mayor

Jacob Frey
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.

Minneapolis Largest city in Minnesota

Minneapolis is the county seat of Hennepin County and the larger of the Twin Cities, the 16th-largest metropolitan area in the United States. As of 2017, Minneapolis is the largest city in the state of Minnesota and 45th-largest in the United States, with an estimated population of 422,331. The Twin Cities metropolitan area consists of Minneapolis, its neighbor Saint Paul, and suburbs which altogether contain about 3.6 million people, and is the third-largest economic center in the Midwest.

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.

Minnesota State of the United States of America

Minnesota is a state in the Upper Midwest, Great Lakes, and northern regions of the United States. Minnesota was admitted as the 32nd U.S. state on May 11, 1858, created from the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory. The state has a large number of lakes, and is known by the slogan the "Land of 10,000 Lakes". Its official motto is L'Étoile du Nord.

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.

Jacob Frey American politician

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.

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]

Betsy Hodges American politician

Elizabeth A. "Betsy" Hodges is an American politician who served as the 47th mayor of Minneapolis. A member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, she represented Ward 13 on the Minneapolis City Council from January 2006 until January 2014. Hodges was reelected to the city council in the 2009 Minneapolis municipal elections.

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]

Nekima Levy-Pounds American professor and activist

Nekima Valdez Levy-Pounds is an American lawyer, professor, activist, minister and writer. She served as president of the Minneapolis chapter of the NAACP from 2015–2016. She also serves on and has founded a variety of organizations that focus on issues of racial equality and disparity in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area.

NAACP Civil rights organization in the United States

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington and Moorfield Storey.

Aswar Rahman American filmmaker, UX designer, and 2017 Minneapolis mayoral candidate

Aswar Rahman is an American filmmaker, UX designer, and 2017 Minneapolis mayoral candidate. Rahman is the founder of Cineapolis and its annual film festival, the Mespies.

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]

<i>Star Tribune</i> Minneapolis newspaper

The Star Tribune is the largest newspaper in Minnesota. It originated as the Minneapolis Tribune in 1867 and the competing Minneapolis Daily Star in 1920. During the 1930s and 1940s Minneapolis's competing newspapers were consolidated, with the Tribune published in the morning and the Star in the evening. They merged in 1982, creating the Star Tribune. After a tumultuous period in which the newspaper was sold and re-sold and filed for bankruptcy protection in 2009, it was purchased by local businessman Glen Taylor in 2014.

The Minnesota Daily is the campus newspaper of the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, published Monday and Thursday while school is in session, and published weekly on Wednesdays during summer sessions. Published since 1900, the paper is currently the largest student-run and student-written newspaper in the United States and the fourth-largest paper in the state of Minnesota, behind the Minneapolis Star Tribune and the St. Paul Pioneer Press. The Daily was named best daily college newspaper in the United States in 2009 and 2010 by the Society of Professional Journalists. The paper is independent from the University, but receives $500,000 worth of student service fees funding.

Candidates

Democratic-Farmer-Labor

Independent

Farmer Labor

Basic Income Guarantee

Socialist Workers Party

Libertarian

Rainbow, Butterflies, Unicorns

The Idea Party [8]

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 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 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 (winner)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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