Get the majority of votes and win the mayor's office. Sounds simple enough. It was in St. Paul, where Melvin Carter bested his competitors as voters' first-choice. In Minneapolis, the path to victory was more complex as five candidates jostled through multiple rounds of ranked-choice vote reallocation before it was certain Jacob Frey had enough votes to win.
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