Minneapolis mayoral election, 2017 - wikipedia Minneapolis mayoral election, 2017 Minneapolis mayoral election, 2017 ← 2013 November 7, 2017 ( 2017 - 11 - 07 ) 2021 → Candidate Jacob Frey Raymond Dehn Party DFL DFL Popular vote 26,116 ( 1st round ) 46,716 ( 5th round ) 18,101 ( 1st round ) 34,971 ( 5th round ) Percentage 25.0 % ( 1st round ) 57.2 % ( 5th round ) 17.3 % ( 4th in 1st round ) 42.8 % ( 5th round ) Candidate Betsy Hodges Tom Hoch Nekima Levy - Pounds Party DFL DFL DFL Popular vote 18,915 ( 1st round ) 26,875 ( 4th round ) 20,125 ( 1st round ) 22,754 ( 3rd round ) 15,716 ( 1st round ) 16,189 ( 2nd round ) Percentage 18.1 % ( 3rd in 1st round ) 28.7 % ( last in 4th round ) 19.3 % ( 2nd in 1st round ) 22.8 % ( last in 3rd round ) 15.0 % ( 5th in 1st round ) 15.9 % ( last in 2nd round ) Mayor before election Betsy Hodges DFL Elected Mayor Jacob Frey DFL Elections in Minnesota General elections 2006 2008 2012 2014 2016 2018 Federal elections Presidential elections 1860 1864 1868 1872 1876 1880 1884 1888 1892 1896 1900 1904 1908 1912 1916 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1940 1944 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 2000 2008 2012 2016 2020 Senate elections Class 1 1916 1922 1928 1934 1940 1946 1952 1958 1964 1970 1976 1982 1988 1994 2000 2006 2012 2018 Class 2 1918 1924 1930 1936 1942 1948 1954 1960 1966 1972 1978 1984 1990 2002 2008 2014 2020 House of Representatives elections 2000 2002 2006 2008 2012 2014 2016 2018 Special elections Senate 1923 1936 1942 1978 House of Representatives 7th district, 1977 State executive elections Gubernatorial elections 1857 1859 1861 1863 1865 1867 1869 1871 1873 1875 1877 1879 1881 1883 1886 1888 1890 1892 1894 1896 1898 1900 1902 1904 1906 1908 1910 1912 1914 1916 1918 1920 1922 1924 1926 1928 1930 1932 1934 1936 1938 1940 1942 1944 1946 1948 1950 1952 1954 1956 1958 1960 1962 1966 1970 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2014 2018 Lieutenant gubernatorial elections 1900 1902 1904 1906 1908 1910 1912 1914 1916 1918 1920 1922 1924 1926 1928 1930 1932 1934 1936 1938 1940 1942 1944 1946 1948 1950 1952 1954 1956 1958 1960 1962 1966 1970 Secretary of State elections 2014 2018 State Auditor elections 2006 2014 2018 Attorney General elections 2014 2018 State legislative elections Senate elections 1976 1980 1982 1986 1990 1992 2000 2002 2006 2012 2016 2020 House of Representatives elections 1976 1978 1980 1982 1984 1986 1988 1990 1992 1994 1998 2000 2002 2006 2008 2012 2014 2016 2018 Special elections Senate House of Representatives Ballot questions 2012 Amendment 1 Amendment 2 Minneapolis General elections 2005 2009 2013 2017 Mayoral elections 2005 2009 2013 2017 City Council elections 2005 2009 2013 2017 Saint Paul Mayoral elections 2005 2009 2013 2017 The 2017 Minneapolis mayoral election was held on November 7, 2017, to elect the Mayor of Minneapolis. This was the third mayoral election in the city 's history to use ranked - choice voting. Municipal elections in Minnesota are nonpartisan, although candidates were able to identify with a political party on the ballot. No candidate achieved a majority in the first round of ballot counting on election night. Jacob Frey was declared the winner the next day after several rounds of vote tabulations. Contents 1 Background 2 Candidates 2.1 Gallery 3 Results 4 See also 5 References 6 External links Background Betsy Hodges was elected mayor of Minneapolis on November 5, 2013, out of a field of 35 candidates, with her term beginning on January 2, 2014. In response to the large candidate field, the Minneapolis Charter Commission approved a referendum increasing the filing fee from $20 to $500. The proposal was approved by voters on November 4, 2014. In a blog letter dated November 7, 2016, a housing activist and longtime Minneapolis resident known as Captain Jack Sparrow announced his candidacy for mayor in the 2017 election ; this was his third election campaign for office in the past 6 years. Nekima Levy - Pounds, an attorney, civil rights activist, and former president of the Minneapolis NAACP, was one of the first candidates to begin their campaign, with an announcement on November 14, 2016. Hodges announced her re-election campaign on December 15, 2016. City Council member Jacob Frey and filmmaker Aswar Rahman entered in early January, while State Representative Raymond Dehn and theatre executive Tom Hoch announced their campaigns in February. David John Wilson, an active member of the Democratic Farmer - Labor ( DFL ) party, entered the race during the candidate filing period in August 2017, but he declined to identify by party affiliation in favor of the stated principle `` Rainbows Butterflies Unicorns ''. Ian Simpson ran under the platform of the Idea Party, which asks the citizens of Minneapolis to pitch in their own creative solutions for change. Formal candidate filing began on August 1, 2017. Political parties held caucuses and conventions in the spring and summer, deciding whether to endorse a candidate for election. The DFL did not endorse a Minneapolis mayoral candidate at its July 2017 convention. On October 27, the Star Tribune editorial staff endorsed Jacob Frey for mayor. This was followed by an endorsement of Frey by the Minnesota Daily on October 30. Candidates Democratic - Farmer - Labor Raymond Dehn, State Representative ( District 59B ) Al Flowers, community activist Jacob Frey, City Council member ( Third Ward ) Tom Hoch, former president of the Hennepin Theatre Trust, former deputy executive director of the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority Betsy Hodges, incumbent mayor Nekima Levy - Pounds, civil rights activist, former president of the Minneapolis NAACP, founding director of the Community Justice Project at the University of St. Thomas law school Jeffrey Sterling Olson Aswar Rahman, filmmaker, businessman Suspended campaign on November 2, 2017, and subsequently endorsed Jacob Frey. Gregg Iverson, retired employee of Minnesota Department of Transportation Independent Nickolas `` L.A. Nik '' Pilotta, podcast host Farmer Labor Troy Benjegerdes Basic Income Guarantee Captain Jack Sparrow, urban housing and Occupy movement activist Socialist Workers Party David Rosenfeld Libertarian Charlie Gers Rainbow, Butterflies, Unicorns David John Wilson The Idea Party Ian Simpson Gallery Troy Benjegerdes Raymond Dehn Al Flowers Jacob Frey Charlie Gers Tom Hoch Betsy Hodges Gregg Iverson Nekima Levy - Pounds Aswar Rahman Ian Simpson Captain Jack Sparrow David John Wilson `` Dave Unicorn '' Not pictured : Jeffrey Sterling Olson, David Rosenfeld Results No candidate achieved a majority in the first round on election night. Several rounds of vote transfers were necessary to determine a winner, a process which did not start until the next day. Candidates whose total votes in all ranked positions are less than the highest votes in first rank are immediately eliminated. In 2017 five candidates remained for the sequential elimination process. Votes by ranking of candidates above 2 % Candidate / Votes by rank Total Jacob Frey 24.97 % 19.90 % 14.39 % 59.26 % Tom Hoch 19.27 % 18.67 % 13.22 % 51.16 % Betsy Hodges ( incumbent ) 18.08 % 16.57 % 21.57 % 56.22 % Raymond Dehn 17.34 % 16.51 % 14.04 % 47.89 % Nekima Levy - Pounds 15.06 % 17.43 % 16.31 % 48.80 % Other or none 5.28 % 10.92 % 20.47 % With four rounds of elimination, Jacob Frey was announced as the winner on Wednesday, November 8, at 2 pm, 18 hours after the polls closed. Runoff round tabulation Candidate Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Round 5 votes ( % of active ) transfer votes ( % of active ) transfer votes ( % of active ) transfer votes ( % of active ) transfer votes ( % of active ) Jacob Frey ( winner ) 26,116 25.0 % + 634 26,750 26.3 % + 2,730 29,480 29.5 % + 9,888 39,368 42.1 % + 7,348 46,716 57.2 % Raymond Dehn 18,101 17.3 % + 473 18,574 18.2 % + 5,454 24,028 24.1 % + 3,330 27,358 29.2 % + 7,613 34,971 42.8 % Betsy Hodges ( incumbent ) 18,915 18.1 % + 552 19,467 19.1 % + 4,044 23,511 23.6 % + 3,364 26,875 28.7 % − 26,875 Tom Hoch 20,125 19.3 % + 787 20,912 20.5 % + 1,842 22,754 22.8 % − 22,754 Nekima Levy - Pounds 15,716 15.0 % + 473 16,189 15.9 % − 16,189 Charlie Gers 1,233 1.2 % − 1,233 Aswar Rahman 756 0.7 % − 756 Al Flowers 711 0.7 % − 711 L.A. Nik 612 0.6 % − 612 David Rosenfeld 477 0.5 % − 477 Captain Jack Sparrow 438 0.4 % − 438 Gregg A. Iverson 335 0.3 % − 335 Ronald Lischeid 325 0.3 % − 325 David John Wilson 220 0.2 % − 220 Troy Benjegerdes 184 0.2 % − 184 Undeclared Write - ins 138 0.1 % − 138 Ian Simpson 119 0.1 % − 119 Christopher Robin Zimmerman 0.0 % − 1 Theron Preston Washington 0 0.0 % 0 Active Ballots ( % of Valid ) 104,522 100 % 101,892 97.5 % 99,773 95.5 % 93,601 89.6 % 81,687 78.2 % Exhausted Ballots ( % of Valid ) 0 0.0 % + 2,630 2,630 2.5 % + 2,119 4,749 4.5 % + 6,172 10,921 10.4 % + 11,914 22,835 21.8 % Total Valid Ballots 104,522 104,522 104,522 104,522 104,522 Turnout : 105,928 Undervotes : 1,406 ( 1.3 % ) Valid ballots : 104,522 Source : Minneapolis Elections & Voter Services See also Minneapolis City Council election, 2017 Minneapolis municipal election, 2017 References Jump up ^ Rao, Maya ( July 3, 2014 ). `` Minneapolis residents to vote on $500 fee to run for mayor ''. Star Tribune. Retrieved December 4, 2016. 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Jump up ^ Belz, Adam ( January 3, 2017 ). `` Council Member Jacob Frey Announces Bid for Mayor of Minneapolis ''. Star Tribune. Retrieved January 4, 2017. Jump up ^ `` Tom Hoch Joins Mayor 's Race ''. Southwest Journal. 2017 - 02 - 21. Retrieved 2017 - 10 - 03. Jump up ^ Belz, Adam ( February 21, 2017 ). `` Tom Hoch Enters Race for Minneapolis Mayor ''. Star Tribune. Retrieved March 9, 2017. Jump up ^ Nelson, Emma ( December 15, 2016 ). `` Hodges Announces Re-election Bid as Mayor of Minneapolis ''. Star Tribune. Retrieved December 21, 2016. Jump up ^ `` Mayor Betsy Hodges for Minneapolis Deliberate, Intentional Leadership ''. Mayor Betsy Hodges for Minneapolis. Retrieved 2017 - 10 - 14. Jump up ^ Furst, Randy ( November 16, 2016 ). `` Civil rights Activist Nekima Levy - Pounds to Run for Mayor of Minneapolis ''. Star Tribune. Retrieved December 4, 2016. Jump up ^ `` NAACP Head Nekima Levy - Pounds to Leave St. Thomas Law School ''. Star Tribune. Retrieved 2017 - 10 - 03. Jump up ^ `` Nekima Levy - Pounds for Mayor of Minneapolis ''. Nekima Levy - Pounds For Mayor of Minneapolis. Retrieved 2017 - 10 - 14. Jump up ^ `` Minneapolis DFL ''. www.mpls.dfl.org. Retrieved 2017 - 04 - 02. Jump up ^ Rahman, Aswar ( 10 / 03 / 17 ). `` Aswar Rahman ''. https://www.linkedin.com. Check date values in : date = ( help ) ; External link in website = ( help ) Jump up ^ Belz, Adam ( November 2, 2017 ). `` Aswar Rahman Suspends Campaign for Minneapolis Mayor, Endorses Jacob Frey ''. Star Tribune. Retrieved November 3, 2017. Jump up ^ `` Gregg A. Iverson ''. Star Tribune. Retrieved 2017 - 10 - 03. Jump up ^ Belz, Adam ; Jessie, Van Berkel ( August 15, 2017 ). `` 23 Candidates File to Run for Mayor in Minneapolis, St. Paul ''. Star Tribune. Retrieved August 18, 2017. Jump up ^ Zurowski, Cory ( August 17, 2017 ). `` L.A. Nik, ' Mayor of Minneapolis After Dark ' Seeks Day Job as Actual Mayor ''. City Pages. Retrieved November 4, 2017. 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Jump up ^ Belz, Adam ; Jessie, Van Berkel ( August 15, 2017 ). `` 23 Candidates File to Run for Mayor in Minneapolis, St. Paul ''. Star Tribune. Retrieved August 18, 2017. Jump up ^ Belz, Adam ; Jessie, Van Berkel ( August 15, 2017 ). `` 23 Candidates File to Run for Mayor in Minneapolis, St. Paul ''. Star Tribune. Retrieved August 18, 2017. Jump up ^ Unicorns, David John Wilson for Minneapolis Mayor 2017 - Rainbow Butterflies. `` Candidate for Mayor Election 2017 Rainbows Butterflies Unicorns, 2017 Election - Rainbows, Butterflies and Unicorns - Minneapolis, Minnesota David John Wilson for Minneapolis Mayor 2017 - Rainbow Butterflies Unicorns ''. David John Wilson for Minneapolis Mayor 2017 - Rainbow Butterflies Unicorns. Retrieved 2017 - 10 - 14. Jump up ^ `` HOME ''. ideaparty.org. Retrieved 2017 - 10 - 26. Jump up ^ Smith, Mary Lynn ( November 8, 2017 ). `` Melvin Carter is St. Paul 's New Mayor ; Jacob Frey Leads in Minneapolis ''. Star Tribune. Retrieved November 8, 2017. 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Question: who won the mayor race in minneapolis minnesota
Answer: Jacob Frey