An election in which three candidates in their 30s won Minneapolis City Council races made it clear that the city’s demographics are changing, and voters want younger, newer and more diverse representation. On Tuesday, Jacob Frey, 32, defeated two-term incumbent Diane Hofstede in Ward 3, and Lisa Bender, 35, defeated first-term City Council Member Meg Read more →
Minneapolis City Council Member Betsy Hodges declared victory in the race to succeed outgoing mayor R.T. Rybak. Wednesday night after several rivals called her to concede. City election officials are still counting ballots, because of the city’s ranked choice voting system. Even so, Hodges sounded like she was transitioning to the mayor’s office. “Thank you Read more →
Results from Election Day are coming into focus — Betsy Hodges holds a commanding lead in the Minneapolis mayor’s race — and so is the reaction to ranked-choice voting. About 40 percent of voters went to the polls in Minneapolis. City election officials say that’s more than the last two mayoral elections, and on par Read more →
Minneapolis voters unseated three incumbent City Council members in today’s elections, guaranteeing that a majority of the 13-member council will be new members. Read more →
St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman won a third term in office Tuesday night, defeating his most active challenger, Tim Holden. With all 97 precincts reporting, Coleman received 78.23 percent of the first-choice votes and Holden 16.31 percent, according to unofficial numbers reported by the Secretary of State. The win makes Coleman the first St. Paul Read more →
In his first run for elective office, Abdi Warsame won the race to represent Ward 6 on the Minneapolis City Council, soundly defeating incumbent Robert Lilligren, who was the first and only Native American city council member. In winning the seat, Warsame became the first Somali-American elected to the council, just seven years after arriving Read more →
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