The 2005 Minneapolis municipal elections in the U.S. state of Minnesota held a scheduled

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on 13 September and a

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on 8 November. Voters in the city elected: * 1 mayor * 13 city council members, elected by ward * 6

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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 Gary Dean Zimmermann is an American politician and member of the Green Party of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was an elected member of the Minneapolis City Council from 2001 to 2005. Before that, Zimmermann initially served on the Minnea ...

was accused by the

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of accepting bribes, see

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. 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 Raymond Thomas Rybak Jr. (born November 12, 1955) is an American politician, journalist, businessman, and activist who served as the 46th mayor of Minneapolis from 2002 to 2014. In the 2001 election Rybak defeated incumbent Sharon Sayles Belton ...

and

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er 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% require

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 websit

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

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won by 141 votes over DFLer

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). 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

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(independent) beat

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(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
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