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2009 Minneapolis mayoral election
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The 2009 Minneapolis mayoral election was held on November 3, 2009 to elect the Mayor of Minneapolis for a four-year term. Incumbent R. T. Rybak won re-election for a third term in the first round with 73.6% of the vote.
This was the first mayoral election in the city's history to use instant-runoff voting , popularly known as ranked choice voting. Voters had the option of ranking up to three candidates. Municipal elections in Minnesota are nonpartisan , although candidates were able to identify with a political party on the ballot.
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Results [ edit ]
Minneapolis mayoral election, 2009[3] [4] [5]
Political party/principle
Candidate
% 1st Choice
Round 1
DFL
R. T. Rybak (incumbent)
73.60
33,234
Independent Civic Leader
Papa John Kolstad
10.97
4,953
DFL
Al Flowers
3.98
1,795
DFL
Dick Franson
3.50
1,579
Libertarian Party of Minnesota
Christopher Clark
2.96
1,337
Socialist Workers Party
Tom Fiske
1.44
650
Is Awesome
Joey Lombard
0.98
444
Social Entrepreneurship
James R. Everett
0.79
357
New Dignity Party
Bill McGaughey
0.51
232
Moderate Progressive Censored
Bob Carney, Jr.
0.50
228
Edgertonite National Party
John Charles Wilson
0.30
137
N/A
Write-in
0.47
211
Threshold: 22,579Valid: 45,157Undervotes: 811Turnout: 45,968 (19.64%)Registered: 234,028
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