MINNEAPOLIS — Mayor Jacob Frey led a field of 12 mayoral candidates in a re-election bid, but with only 42% he didn’t win. As a result, the election moves into a second round with a narrowed field to decide whether Frey or second-place Omar Fetah can reach the necessary 50% threshold. In the first round Fetah won 32%. Fateh is a U.S.-born Somali-American. He was elected to the state Senate in 2020 from District 62 in southwest Minneapolis. Like Frey he is Democrat. He calls himself a democratic socialist. The politically moderate Frey was elected mayor in 2017.
