Somalian candidate Omar Fateh lost the race for mayor of Minneapolis to his Democrat competitor Jacob Frey.

Because it was ranked choice, the race wasn’t finished until this morning:

STAR TRIBUNE – Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey has been declared the winner of the 2025 mayoral election, earning a third term and staving off a challenge by democratic socialist Omar Fateh.

Frey won after ballots were retabulated Wednesday in the ranked-choice election, which drew a record number of voters for a city election, 55% of registered voters, breaking the 54% mark set in 2021.

Running on a vow that the city is on the upswing after two tumultuous terms, Frey won 42% of the first-choice votes, followed by Fateh with 32%, former pastor DeWayne Davis with 14% and entrepreneur Jazz Hampton with 10%.

Because nobody won a majority on Tuesday (more than 50%), election officials on Wednesday eliminated candidates who mathematically could not win, and their ballots were transferred to the next ranked choice. The process of elimination continued until Frey won a majority.

Minneapolis dodged a bullet with this election. I’m not saying Frey is good, because he’s not. But he’s definitely the lesser of the two evils.