Jewish Dem. Jacob Frey wins re-election as mayor of Minneapolis

By AP 5 November 2025, 8:04 pm

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Democratic Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey speaks at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the reopening of the renovated Stone Arch Bridge across the Mississippi River in downtown Minneapolis on July 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Steve Karnowski)

Jacob Frey has won re-election as mayor of Minneapolis, earning his third term.

Minneapolis uses ranked choice voting to select its mayor, which in Minneapolis means that if no candidate clears the threshold in the first round, candidates with the fewest votes are eliminated for the next round of counting. The process is repeated until one candidate has enough.

Frey won during the final round.

The election was officially nonpartisan, though Frey chose to include the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party label on his ballot line. He defeated a large field that included state Sen. Omar Fateh, a democratic socialist.

The Associated Press declares Frey the winner at 12:38 p.m. EST.