MINNEAPOLIS – Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey was reelected to a second term in a complex ballot-counting system that stretched into the day after voters went to the polls. In a first count Frey had 43% of the vote, which was short of what was needed under the Minneapolis ranked-choice voting system. Frey was declared the winner after second- place and third-place choices were tallied and first choices eliminated. Frey won with 49.1%. There had been 17 candidates. Frey was criticized during the campaign for handling the police department after the George Floyd police murder in May 2021. Frey, a Democrat, lost much of his liberal backing in opposing reforms to re-invent the department under a new rubric – public safety.

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Frey. Elected to the City Council in 2013 and as mayor in 2017. Age 40. A lawyer by training. Moved from Virginia in 2009.