2005 Minneapolis municipal election explained

Election Name:	2005 Minneapolis municipal election
Type:	presidential
Ongoing:	no
Country:	Minneapolis
Vote Type:	popular
Previous Election:	2001 Minneapolis municipal election
Previous Year:	2001
Next Election:	2009 Minneapolis municipal election
Next Year:	2009

The 2005 Minneapolis municipal elections in the U.S. state of Minnesota held a scheduled primary election on 13 September and a general election on 8 November. Voters in the city elected:

1 mayor
13 city council members, elected by ward
6 Minneapolis Public Library trustees
2 members of the Board of Estimate and Taxation, and
3 at-large and 6 elected by district members of the Park and Recreation Board.

Later developments

City Council Member Dean Zimmermann was accused by the Federal Bureau of Investigation of accepting bribes, see Minneapolis City Council. In December 2006, he was convicted and sentenced to prison. He was held in a Federal Prison in Colorado, but was released in summer 2008 to a halfway house in Minneapolis.

Primary Results, Mayor

Incumbent R.T. Rybak and Hennepin County Commissioner Peter McLaughlin, both DFLers, advanced to the general election on November 8 for the mayoral post. Both candidates had sought endorsement at the DFL City Convention, but neither was able to reach the 60% required http://www.scc.net/~t-bonham/MPLS2005CV.HTM. In the Primary election, Rybak was the overall winner with 44.49% of the vote, while McLaughlin received 35.33%. Full election results are available on the City's website http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/elections/2005primary-results.asp.

General Election Results

Mayor

Incumbent mayor, R.T. Rybak, was reelected.

City Council

The DFL-endorsed candidates won in all races except Ward 2 (Green Party Cam Gordon won by 141 votes over DFLer Cara Letofsky). In wards where there was no DFL endorsement (8 & 10), the seat was won by the candidate who came closest to getting the DFL endorsement.

Other Offices

In other offices, the DFL-endorsed candidates won in all races except 1 Park Board seat (Incumbent Annie Young had no DFL-endorsed opponent) and 1 Library Board seat (Incumbent Anita Duckor (independent) beat Gary Thaden (DFL). (Thaden was later appointed by the Minneapolis City Council).

External links

Minneapolis Elections Office
Minneapolis candidate links and discussion from E-Democracy.Org
Minneapolis Observer - Community newspaper covering the elections