Mayor Jacob Frey has won a third term as mayor of Minneapolis after winning enough votes in the second round this morning. In the city’s Ranked Choice Voting system, no candidate reached the 50% threshold needed to be declared the winner in Tuesday’s election.
He netted 50% of the total votes to Fateh’s 44%.
Minneapolis Elections and Voter Services posted results shortly after 11:30am Wednesday after the second round of reallocating votes and Frey’s total haul of the votes increased from the 61,444, he received yesterday as voters’ first-choice to final round votes of 73,723 a 20% increase, crossing the required 50%.
46,614 voters had picked Fateh as their first choice and after reallocation Wednesday his total came to 65,377, a 40% increase.
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