Ranked-choice tabulations are complete in Minneapolis, and they’ve confirmed that moderate Jacob Frey will be reelected as mayor, defeating two progressives who had charged that Frey hadn’t done enough to reform the police both before and after last year’s murder of George Floyd. Minneapolis voters also passed City Question 1, which gives the mayor’s office more power, and rejected City Question 2, which would have replaced the police department with a department of public safety. Add it all up, and it appears Minneapolitans have issued a vote of confidence in the status quo despite the past year-plus of turmoil in the city.
