MINNEAPOLIS—Mayor Jacob Frey has won reelection despite a strong challenge from a socialist-aligned candidate.
The outcome follows additional retabulating that the city’s complex ranked choice voting method required, which left voters and the two leading candidates waiting for results following the Nov. 4 election.
Frey beat state Sen. Omar Fateh by securing 73,723 votes versus Fateh’s 65,377 votes, The Associated Press reported, based on unofficial results with 99 percent of the votes counted.
In a city in which Republicans rarely run and haven’t won the mayor’s race in 68 years, the two leading Democratic candidates—Frey and Fateh—remained unsure until almost noon on Nov. 5 whether they would ultimately win or lose because of ranked choice voting (RCV), a process in which voters may choose up to three candidates in order of preference….
Mayor Defeats Democratic Socialist in Minneapolis
