Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey’s bid for a third term resulted in an initial lead that drew 42% of first-choice votes, with a strong showing in bellwether areas of southwest Minneapolis and majority support in the city’s core and stretches of north Minneapolis.
Challenger Omar Fateh trailed Frey by about 15,000 votes in the first round and drew his strongest support from around Powderhorn, LynLake, Phillips, the university neighborhoods and Cedar-Riverside.
In a single round of vote reallocation on Wednesday morning, Frey garnered enough second-choice ballots from other candidates to get over the winning threshold to be elected for a third term.
Fateh received more second-choice votes — nearly 20,000 of them — than Frey, but it ultimately wasn’t enough to make up the difference between him and the mayor.
