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A general election will held in Minneapolis on November 4, 2025. Minneapolis's mayor will be up for election as well as all the seats on the City Council, the two elected seats on the Board of Estimate and Taxation, and all the seats on the Park and Recreation Board. Voters are able to rank up to three candidates for each office in order of ...
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 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 ]
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 ...
Rent control is the Trojan horse issue of next month's Minneapolis city election. City Council candidates are not saying much about it. However, if the election tips the council's majority from ...
A general election was held in the U.S. state of Minnesota on November 5, 2024. All seats in the Minnesota House of Representatives were up for election as well as several judicial seats, Minnesota's 10 presidential electors , a United States Senate seat, [ 1 ] Minnesota's eight seats in the United States House of Representatives , one seat of ...
The balance of power at Minneapolis City Hall could shift again under a pair of proposed changes to the city charter that could go to the City Council in 2024. Two years after voters approved a ...
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.