Twin Cities Mayoral Elections

Minnesota Report

In Minneapolis, incumbent Mayor Jacob Frey (DFL) has prevailed in his reelection bid for his third term of office. The attempted collusion by his three highest profile opponents failed to unseat him. This race made a major turn after the DFL Party rescinded the endorsement for Omar Fateh (DFL) after a number of irregularities were advanced by the Frey Campaign. With the results in, the three amigo candidates failed to perform.

The top four candidates listed DFL as their party label.

On the 2^nd ballot, thirteen candidates were eliminated, including Davis and Hampton and their ballots were reallocated resulting in simple majority victory for Frey with 73,723 votes or 50.03% over Fateh with 65,377 votes or 44.37%.

Other the other side of the river, the election results in St Paul, were close, but ultimately incumbent Mayor Melvin Carter III (DFL), failed in his attempt to secure a third term of office. Ironically, the Ranked Choice Supporter succumbed to a field of four challengers, in the first electoral contest, which actually used the single transferable voting system for the first time in his elections, to produce the result.

Last nights returns were slow coming in, but round about midnight with Carter securing the first position with 27,261 votes or 40.83%, followed by Kaohly Her (DFL) with 25, 658 vote or 38.43%, he was overtaken by the combination of the three candidates who departed the race after the first round.

In the last municipal election to be held in an odd year, in a nonpartisan contest, the publicly three of the candidates identified as DFL and Yan Chen (DFL) did secure the Forward/Independence Party endorsement, but did not promote it.

Here are the first ballot results with 66,769 votes cast.

With Carter leading on the first ballot, and no simple majority achieved, Ranked Choice Voting commenced and a reallocation ensued.

In St Paul, any candidate without a possible route to victory, is then dropped from the ballot and those ballots are effectively batched and the 2^nd Choices are then distributed to the remaining candidates. The difference between Carter and Her at the onset was 1,604 votes.

When rendered in reverse order of their finish, the following results occurred.

This resulted in Kaohly Her (DFL) becoming the Mayor-elect and marking history as the first woman elected to the office in St Paul’s history as well as being the first Asian (Hmong) to do so.