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The first Black city council member was Van White, elected in 1979 to represent Ward 5. [5] The first openly gay member, Brian Coyle, was elected in 1983 to represent Ward 6, and died of AIDS while in office as council vice president. [6] [7] In 2017, Phillipe Cunningham from Ward 4 and Andrea Jenkins from Ward 8 were elected to the City ...
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 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.
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All 13 seats on the Minneapolis City Council will be up for election to a four-year term. [3] Each resident of Minneapolis can elect one city councilor in a single-member district. Because of re-districting, members were last elected in 2021 and 2023 for two-year terms instead of the usual four. [5]
The Minneapolis City Council has 13 members who represent the city's 13 wards. [446] In 2021, a ballot question shifted more weight from the city council to the mayor; proponents had tried to achieve this change since the early 20th century. [447] The mayor and city council now share responsibility for the city's finances. [448]
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