In the closest local race, Cedrick Frazier won the Hennepin County attorney seat with 50.55% of the vote. Andres Folk received 48.92% of the vote–a difference of 8,300 votes. Incumbent Mary Moriarty did not seek re-election.
Dawanna Witt earned a second term as Hennepin County Sheriff, garnering 67.17% of the vote compare to challenger Joseph Bank's 32.22%.
District 4 Hennepin County Board member Angela Conley was running unopposed, and got 98.60% of the vote. Conley has held the office since 2019. Fellow incumbent for District 3 (which includes nearby Southwest Minneapolis) Marion Greene beat challenger Abdihakim Arabow Ibrahim 73% to 26%. Incumbent (and board chair) Irene Fernando on the north side of the city held onto her seat against challenger Sharon El-Amin (who serves on the Minneapolis School Board) with almost 62% of the vote. Fernando was the first Filipino American elected in Minnesota in 2023.
The Minneapolis School Board will get getting a few new members. Becca Dryden beat Molly Chase for the district 5 seat in south Minneapolis with 64.71% of the vote. Lori Norvell did not seek reelection.
Shannon Gibney ran unopposed for District 3. In District 1, Abdul Abdi beat Ben Lattimore on a 59.21%/40.27% split.
Christin Crabtree will be filling one at-large seat on the Minneapolis School Board, with 90,184 votes or 36.93%; she came out strongly against the district's transformation plan to close schools. Collin Beachy, the current chair, held onto his at-large seat with 74,523 votes or 30.51%. They were followed by Stephanie Johnson with 19.70% and Michael Baskins with 12.18%.
The majority of Minneapolis voters, 89.08%, voted "yes" on the state constitutional amendment to increase the funding going to all school districts from the permanent school fund, which will not raise taxes. Statewide, the average was 72.87% voting yes.
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