City elections in Minneapolis, Minnesota (2025)
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| Election dates |
| Filing deadline: August 12, 2025 |
| General election: November 4, 2025 |
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| Offices up: Mayor, city council, estimate and taxation board, and park and recreation board |
| Total seats up: 25(click here for mayoral elections) |
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| U.S. municipal elections, 2025 |
The city ofMinneapolis, Minnesota, held general elections for mayor, city council, estimate and taxation board, and park and recreation board on November 4, 2025. The filing deadline for this election was August 12, 2025.
All 13 seats on the Minneapolis City Council were up for election on November 4, 2025. While the Minneapolis municipal elections are officiallynonpartisan, media outlets reported the council's progressive bloc maintained a seven-member majority but lost the ability to override MayorJacob Frey's vetoes.[1] Nine votes are required to override a mayoral veto in Minneapolis.
According toFox 9-TV's Mike Manzoni, progressives won a majority on the council in 2023 and "occasionally found two additional votes to get the nine needed to override a mayoral veto."[2] TheMinnesota Star Tribune's Matt McKinney wrote, "In 2024, the bloc overrode Frey’s vetoes of a minimum pay rate for rideshare drivers, an Israel-Hamas ceasefire resolution and a carbon emissions fee. The bloc attempted but failed to override Frey’s veto of a new labor standards board and a denial of raises for about 160 high-paid city employees that Frey supported."[3] In December 2024, the city council also overturned Frey's veto of the 2025 city budget.[4]
TheMinneapolis mayoral election was one of several in 2025, the political observers described as highlighting a moderate-progressive split in theDemocratic Party. In that race,Frey, who described himself as a pragmatic progressive, defeatedOmar Fateh, who described himself as a Democratic socialist.[5][6]
All 13 city council races were contested. Ten city council incumbents ran for re-election, and nine were re-elected. One incumbent lost in the general election. In that race,Elizabeth Shaffer defeated incumbentKatie Cashman 52.1%-45.9%.
Elections in Minneapolis are officially nonpartisan, but the Minneapolis City Charter allows mayoral and city council candidates to choose a party label to appear below their name on the official ballot. Ballotpedia includes candidates' party or principle to best reflect what voters will see on their ballot.[7]
Of the 40 candidates who ran, 30 were Democrats, one was Republican, and nine were third-party or independent candidates. Twelve of the winning candidates chose Democrat as their party label, one—Robin Wonsley—choseDemocratic Socialists of America as her label.
Minneapolis usedranked-choice voting in the election. Clickhere to learn more about that process.
This will be the first Minneapolis City Council to serve four-year terms since the council that was elected in2017. This is due toHouse File 653, which states that following redistricting after the U.S. Census, certain cities "where council members are elected by ward to serve for four years to terms that are not staggered, if the population of any ward changes by five percent or more, all council members must be elected to new terms at the first municipal general election after ward boundaries are redefined" and that " if no municipal general election would otherwise occur in the year ending in '2' or the year ending in '3,' a municipal general election must be held in one of those years."[8]The state Legislature enacted House File 653 in 2010.
City council members who were elected in2021 and2023 served two-year terms.
Click here to learn more about the city's mayoral election.
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Candidates and results
City council
General election
Minneapolis City Council general election, 2025 | |||
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| Office |  Democratic |  Republican | Other |
| Ward 1 | Edwin Fruit (Socialist Workers Party) | ||
| Ward 2 |
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| Ward 3 | Marcus Mills (Progressive Unity Independent) | ||
| Ward 4 | Leslie Davis (Tell the Truth Party) | ||
| Ward 5 | Ethrophic Burnett | ||
| Ward 6 | |||
| Ward 7 | |||
| Ward 8 | Philip Galberth (Unaffiliated) | ||
| Ward 9 |
| Daniel Orban (Unaffiliated) | |
| Ward 10 | |||
| Ward 11 | Jim Meyer (Budgetary Economic Stability) | ||
| Ward 12 | Edward Bear Stops (Community Over Politics) | ||
| Ward 13 |
| Bob Carney Jr. (Climate Revolution Elephant) | |
Board of Estimate and Taxation
General election
General election for Minneapolis Board of Estimate and Taxation
Theranked-choice voting election was won bySteve Brandt in round 1 , andEric Harris Bernstein in round 1 .
Candidate | % | Total Votes | Transfer | Round eliminated | ||
| Eric Harris Bernstein | 40.1 | 42,829 | 0 | Won (1) | ||
| Steve Brandt | 33.7 | 35,911 | 0 | Won (1) | ||
 | Bob Fine | 25.7 | 27,445 | 0 | 1 | |
Undeclared Write-insUndeclared write-in candidates may advance past the first round in some ranked-choice elections. If the official source reports write-in votes by candidate name, Ballotpedia displays them alongside the ballot-qualified candidates. However, if write-in votes are reported without a name, they will instead be included in the total write-in votes figure in Round 1. Please consult the official elections source for more details about unnamed write-in candidate vote totals past Round 1. | 0.5 | 497 | 0 | |||
| Incumbents arebolded and underlined. Source 1 Source 2 | Total votes: 106,682 | ||
 = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
Park and Recreation Board
Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board election, 2025 | |
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| Office | Candidates |
| Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board At-large (3 seats) |  Meg Forney (i)Tom Olsen (i)Matthew Dowgwillo Amber Frederick Mary McKelvey Adam Schneider Averi Turner Michael Wilson |
| District 1 | Dan Engelhart Dan Miller |
| District 2 | Charles Rucker (i) |
| District 3 | Kedar Deshpande |
| District 4 | Jeanette Colby Jason García Andrew Gebo |
| District 5 | Steffanie Musich (i) Colton Baldus Kay Carvajal Moran Justin Cermak |
| District 6 | Cathy Abene (i) Ira Jourdain |
Additional elections on the ballot
- See also:Minnesota elections, 2025
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- Mayoral election in Minneapolis, Minnesota (2025)
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- Saint Paul Public Schools, Minnesota, School District Question 1, Increase Property Tax Measure to Fund Public Education Needs Measure (November 2025)
- St. Paul, Minnesota, City Question 1, Allow for Administrative Citations Referendum (November 2025)
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About the city
- See also:Minneapolis, Minnesota
Minneapolis is a city inHennepin County,Minnesota. As of 2020, its population was 429,954.
City government
- See also:Mayor-council government
The city of Minneapolis uses an uncommon version of a mayor-council government. In Minneapolis, the city council serves as the city's primary legislative body while the mayor serves as the city's chief executive. However, the mayor has fewer powers with more limitations than most strong mayor and city council systems.[9]
Demographics
The following table displays demographic data provided by theUnited States Census Bureau.
| Demographic Data for Minneapolis, Minnesota | ||
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| Minneapolis | Minnesota | |
| Population | 429,954 | 5,706,494 |
| Land area (sq mi) | 53 | 79,631 |
| Race and ethnicity** | ||
| White | 62.9% | 81.6% |
| Black/African American | 18.9% | 6.4% |
| Asian | 5.9% | 4.9% |
| Native American | 1.4% | 1% |
| Pacific Islander | 0% | 0% |
| Other (single race) | N/A | 2.1% |
| Multiple | 6% | 3.9% |
| Hispanic/Latino | 9.6% | 5.5% |
| Education | ||
| High school graduation rate | 90.4% | 93.4% |
| College graduation rate | 51.8% | 36.8% |
| Income | ||
| Median household income | $66,068 | $73,382 |
| Persons below poverty level | 18.3% | 9.3% |
| Source: population provided by U.S. Census Bureau,"Decennial Census" (2020). Other figures provided by U.S. Census Bureau,"American Community Survey" (5-year estimates 2015-2020). | ||
| **Note: Percentages for race and ethnicity may add up to more than 100 percent because respondents may report more than one race and the Hispanic/Latino ethnicity may be selected in conjunction with any race. Read more about race and ethnicity in the censushere. | ||
See also
| Minneapolis, Minnesota | Minnesota | Municipal government | Other local coverage |
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Footnotes
- ↑CBS News, "Progressives on Minneapolis City Council hold on to majority, despite key loss in Ward 7," November 5, 2025
- ↑Fox 9, "Progressives hold majority on Minneapolis City Council, lose power to override vetoes," November 5, 2025
- ↑Minnesota Star-Tribune, "Minneapolis City Council progressives hang onto majority," November 5, 2025
- ↑Minnesota Public Radio, "Minneapolis City Council overrides mayor’s veto of 2025 budget, "December 12, 2024
- ↑CNN, "Minnesota Democrats revoke endorsement of democratic socialist candidate for Minneapolis mayor," August 21, 2025
- ↑The Progressive Magazine, "How Omar Fateh Brought His Own ‘Mamdani Moment’ to Minneapolis," September 9, 2025
- ↑City of Minneapolis, "Common questions about filing for office," accessed September 10, 2025
- ↑Minnesota Leguslature, "HF 653," accessed November 18, 2025
- ↑MinnPost, "With Minneapolis' weak-mayor system, does it really matter who gets elected?" August 29, 2013
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