2021 Mayor results

Official winner: Jacob Frey

November 2, 2021

Municipal Election

This was a ranked-choice voting (RCV) race. Voters were asked to rank up to three candidates. After two rounds of tabulation, Jacob Frey was elected.

Mayor
CandidateFirst-choice votesFinal round votesFinal round percentage
Jacob Frey  61,620 70,669 49.1%
Kate Knuth 26,468 55,007 38.2%
Sheila Nezhad 30,368 Eliminated round 2 -
AJ Awed 6,860 Eliminated round 2 -
Laverne Turner  4,620 Eliminated round 2 -
Clint Conner 4,309 Eliminated round 2 -
Bob "Again" Carney Jr 2,788 Eliminated round 2 -
Marcus Harcus 1,189 Eliminated round 2 -
Nate "Honey Badger" Atkins 1,179 Eliminated round 2 -
Mark Globus 1,158 Eliminated round 2 -
Doug Nelson  739 Eliminated round 2 -
Perry, Jerrell 687 Eliminated round 2 -
Mike Winter 642 Eliminated round 2 -
Christopher W David 493 Eliminated round 2 -
Kevin "No Body" Ward 282 Eliminated round 2 -
Paul E. Johnson 243 Eliminated round 2 -
Troy Benjegerdes 184 Eliminated round 2 -
Christopher Robin "CRZ" Zimmerman 2 Eliminated round 2 -
Adam Drissi 0 Eliminated round 2 -
Undeclared Write-ins 143 Eliminated round 2 -

 

Ballots cast summary
Total votes cast 143,974 Total votes counted in the first round. Does not include undervotes, overvotes, defective, or spoiled ballots.
Tabulation threshold 71,988 The number of votes sufficient for a candidate to be elected. Half of votes cast for office + 1, disregarding fractions.
Undervotes 1,363 Ballots where the voter did not rank any candidates for the office.

Ranked-choice voting diagram

This diagram shows how votes were redistributed as candidates were defeated. Hover and pause over the bars on the diagram for vote totals.

About this diagram

Sankey diagram created with:

  • networkD3: D3 JavaScript Network Graphs from R (R package version 0.4) J.J. Allaire, Christopher Gandrud, Kenton Russell and CJ Yetman (2017)
  • R Core Team - R: A language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria (2017)
  • pandas (Python package) Wes McKinney. Data Structures for Statistical Computing in Python.

Vote totals by round

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2021 Mayor Cast Vote Record

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