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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]
In 2006, Minneapolis voters approved the use of the single transferable vote for its municipal elections. The first use of ranked-choice voting was in the 2009 municipal election. However, since the City Council uses single-member districts, the single transferable vote functions the same way as instant-runoff voting. [43]
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 ...
Minneapolis voters could soon find themselves choosing among three proposals seeking to change policing in the wake of George Floyd's death. Each one would require approval from voters to become ...
All 13 Minneapolis council members are up for re-election Tuesday, with incumbents facing challengers from across the political spectrum. A slate of progressive representatives who vowed to end ...
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 2024 United States presidential election in Minnesota took place on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, as part of the 2024 United States elections in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. Minnesota voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote.