Mayor Jacob Frey beat back a challenge from democratic socialist Omar Fateh for a third term leading Minnesota’s largest city. He’ll still have to contend with a city council that’s to his left politically.
Frey survived by winning enough support in the second round of voting under the city’s ranked choice voting system. He hung on while his counterpart in St. Paul, outgoing Mayor Melvin Carter, lost in a historic upset to state Rep. Kaohly Her.
Her becomes the first woman and first Hmong-American to lead Minnesota’s capital city. Fateh had similarly hoped to become the first Somali-American and Muslim mayor of Minneapolis.
