Mayor Defeats Democratic Socialist in Minneapolis

MINNEAPOLIS—Mayor Jacob Frey has won reelection despite a strong challenge from a socialist-aligned candidate. The outcome follows additional retabulating that the city’s complex ranked-choice voting method required, which left voters and the two leading candidates waiting for results following the Nov. 4 election. He beat state Sen. Omar Fateh by securing 73,723 votes over Fateh’s 65,377 votes, The Associated Press reported, based on unofficial results with 99 percent of the votes counted. In a city where Republicans rarely run and haven’t won the mayor’s race in 68 years, the two leading Democratic candidates—Frey and Fateh—remained unsure until almost noon Wednesday whether they would ultimately win or lose because of “ranked-choice voting” (RCV), a process in which voters may choose up to three candidates in order of preference....