Minneapolis’ 2025 city elections will include Mayor Jacob Frey defending his post and all 13 city council seats on the ballot. Here’s who’s announced so far.
By Deena Winter
The Minnesota Star Tribune
September 30, 2025 at 5:24PM
The mayor and all 13 City Council seats will be on the 2025 Minneapolis elections ballot. (Glen Stubbe/The Minnesota Star Tribune)
Omar Fateh is the first Somali American to serve in the Minnesota Senate and is believed to be the first Somali American state senator in the United States. He’s also one of the few self-identified democratic socialists in the Legislature. He is married and lives in south Minneapolis. Fateh was endorsed by the Minneapolis DFL. Website.
Incumbent Jacob Frey is running for his third four-year term after being elected in 2017. Prior to that, he was a council member representing Ward 3. Before running for public office, Frey worked as an employment and civil rights attorney. He is married to Sarah Clark, and they have a daughter Frida, 4, and are expecting a second daughter in July. Website.
Jazz Hampton and two friends quit their corporate jobs and created a company called TurnSignl after the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd. The app connects drivers with lawyers who can give them legal advice during traffic stops and after vehicle collisions. He describes himself as a husband, father of three, community advocate, attorney, and business owner. Website.
Charlie McCloud is a creative director and strategist and executive aide to a “serial entrepreneur” who describes herself politically as an “independent, common-sense, prevention-first, practical, visionary.”
Xavier Pauke who works as security officer, says politically he is a “independent civic architect.” Website.
Troy Peterson, technical director for a Minneapolis telecommunications network, who says his political ideology is “Space Communist” and says “2020 should be investigated as sedition, those found responsible hung from the neck until dead.” Website.
Andrea Revel, who works in health care, is not affiliated with any political party. Website.
Alejandro Richardson is a “semi-professional” carpenter, amateur landscape architect and vice president of Local 68. He is an independent, politically.
Brenda Short says she grew up in a small town in Iowa, working in cornfields, bean fields, and a chicken farm. She and her three children were homeless in the Twin Cities before she found temporary shelter and worked various jobs before becoming a homeowner. Website.
Laverne Turner runs L.C.T. Consulting LLC, and Hop Hip, a political consulting, public relations and marketing company aimed at restoring urban pride and combatting black-on-black crime and gun violence. Website.
Jeffrey Wagner, who says he works in aviation, also ran for mayor in 2023, when his campaign ad — in which he climbs out of a lake and promises not to “go to the strip clubs anymore” — was crowned “the worst of the worst” by Chris Cillizza, according to Wagner’s own website.
City Council Ward 1
Ward 1 lies in the northeast corner of the city. It includes Audubon Park, Bottineau, Columbia Park, Como, Holland, Logan Park, Marshall Terrace, Mid-City Industrial, Northeast Park, Waite Park and Windom Park.