ranked.vote // Minneapolis City Council Ward 1
The Minneapolis Municipal Election was held on May 13, 2025. Elliott Payne was the winner out of 3 candidatesafter 1 elimination round.
Elliott Payne was also the Condorcet winner.
Runoff Rounds
This Sankey diagram shows the votes of each remaining candidate at each round, as well as the breakdown of votes transferred when each candidate was eliminated.
Note that the tabulation (but not the winner) may differ from the official count. You can read more about why this is.
Pairwise Preferences
For every pair of candidates, this table shows the fraction of voters who preferred one to the other. A preference means that either a voter ranks a candidate ahead of the other, or ranks one candidate but does not list the other. Ballots which rank neither candidate are not counted towards the percent counts.
| Less-preferred Candidate | |||||
Preferred Candidate | Elliott Payne | Brian Strahan | Edwin B. Fruit | Undeclared Write-ins | |
| Elliott Payne | 68.8% | 90.8% | 98.9% | ||
| Brian Strahan | 31.2% | 79.1% | 98.6% | ||
| Edwin B. Fruit | 9.2% | 20.9% | 94.7% | ||
| Undeclared Write-ins | 1.1% | 1.4% | 5.3% | ||
First Alternate
For every pair of candidates, this table shows the fraction of voters who ranked one candidate first ranked the other candidate second.
| Second Choice | ||||||
First Choice | Elliott Payne | Brian Strahan | Edwin B. Fruit | Undeclared Write-ins | Exhausted | |
| Elliott Payne | 36.6% | 13.2% | 0.5% | 49.7% | ||
| Brian Strahan | 42.4% | 8% | 1.4% | 48.2% | ||
| Edwin B. Fruit | 49.3% | 23.4% | 0.8% | 26.5% | ||
| Undeclared Write-ins | 13.9% | 8.3% | 2.8% | 75% | ||
Ranking Distribution
This shows how many candidates voters ranked, both overall and broken down by each candidate's first-choice supporters. This reveals whether some candidates attracted voters who ranked multiple candidates versus those who ranked fewer candidates.
| Number of Candidates Ranked | ||||
Candidate | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| All Candidates (12,141 voters) | 48.1% | 26.0% | 25.9% | |
| Elliott Payne (7,877 voters) | 49.7% | 25.0% | 25.3% | |
| Brian Strahan (3,565 voters) | 48.2% | 30.4% | 21.4% | |
| Edwin B. Fruit (663 voters) | 26.5% | 15.4% | 58.1% | |
| Undeclared Write-ins (36 voters) | 75.0% | 13.9% | 11.1% | |
Final Vote by First Choice
This table tracks which candidate ballots were ultimately allocated to, among ballots that ranked an eliminated candidate first.
| Final Round Choice | ||||
First Round Choice | Elliott Payne | Brian Strahan | Exhausted | |
| Edwin B. Fruit | 49.3% | 23.5% | 27.1% | |
| Undeclared Write-ins | 16.7% | 8.3% | 75% | |
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