Jacob Frey Unofficially Wins Re-Election As Minneapolis Mayor After Ranked-Choice Count

MINNEAPOLIS, MN — Jacob Frey has unofficially been re-elected mayor of Minneapolis, defeating state Sen. Omar Fateh after two rounds of ranked-choice tabulation in Tuesday’s municipal election.

According to the Minneapolis Elections & Voter Services office, Frey finished the final round with 73,723 votes (50.03 percent) to Fateh’s 65,377 votes (44.37 percent). See those results here.

Voters were allowed to rank up to three different candidates.

Frey led the first-choice totals with 61,444 votes, followed by Fateh with 46,614 and DeWayne Davis with 20,414. Fourteen other candidates were eliminated in earlier rounds.

A total of 147,356 ballots were cast in the mayor’s race. The threshold to win outright was 73,679 votes.

Frey, first elected in 2017, appears to have secured a third term after running on a campaign promising continued public-safety improvements, affordable-housing expansion, and steady leadership.

Fateh, a Democratic-Farmer-Labor state senator representing south Minneapolis, campaigned on a more progressive platform aimed at reshaping city policing and housing policy