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Voters are able to rank up to three candidates for each office in order of preference. City offices are formally nonpartisan, though the offices of mayor and city council allow candidates to list a party or preference. [1] The candidate filing period will be July 29 – August 12, 2025. Early in-person and mail voting will begin on September 19 ...
This is the first Minneapolis City Council election since 2017 in which members are elected to the usual 4-year terms, rather than 2-year terms. In 2020, voters passed a ballot measure to elect council members to two separate, two-year terms in 2021 and 2023. This measure was meant to keep city council and mayoral terms concurrent. [3]
The 2025 Minneapolis mayoral election is scheduled to be held on November 4, 2025. Incumbent mayor Jacob Frey is eligible to run for re-election to a third term, and has stated that he plans to do so. [1] Minneapolis uses instant-runoff voting, also known as ranked choice voting, in its mayoral elections.
In 2021, Jones ran a campaign to represent Ward 10 (representing Whittier, South Uptown and the Wedge) in the Minneapolis City Council. [1] She was eliminated at third place in the third round of ranked-choice voting behind Aisha Chughtai and Alicia Gibson after receiving 19.57% of first-round votes. [ 9 ]
Should Minneapolis voters be allowed to simply vote to change the city's laws? Council Member Robin Wonsley thinks so, and there appears to be enough support on the City Council to move the idea ...
The Mayor of Minneapolis, currently a position held by a member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL), operates alongside the city council. The mayor's role was previously considered relatively weak compared to some other U.S. cities, but following a charter amendment in 2021, the mayor gained more power and the council was reduced to purely legislative duties.
The Minneapolis City Council is the legislative branch of the city of Minneapolis in Minnesota, United States. Comprising 13 members, the council holds the authority to create and modify laws, policies, and ordinances that govern the city. Each member represents one of the 13 wards in Minneapolis, elected for a four-year term.
The 2023 election was the first to elect members to redrawn districts and the first election since the city's form of government moved to an Executive Mayor-Legislative Council structure. [3] The change was prompted after voters narrowly approved a ballot measure in 2021 to shift certain powers from the city council to the mayor. [ 4 ]