MINNEAPOLIS — Jacob Frey will have another four years to pursue his vision of a rejuvenated Minneapolis after being declared winner of the city's mayoral race Wednesday.

A second round of vote tabulation in the city's ranked choice system pushed Frey over the 50% vote total needed to call the race. Fifteen candidates were vying for the mayor's office, but only State Senator Omar Fateh came close, garnering 46,614 votes to Frey's 61,444.

The way ranked-choice voting works in Minneapolis is that if no candidate clears the 50%-plus-one vote threshold in the first round of vote counting, which wound up late Tuesday night, candidates with the fewest votes are eliminated for the next round of counting while second- and third-choice rankings are allocated to the surviving candidates.

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