Minnesota elections 2023: Latest results, city council races, school boards and more

Minneapolis City Council President Andrea Jenkins is unofficially projected to stave off a strong challenge from Soren Stevenson, according to city election officials.

Jenkins, who represents a central area of south Minneapolis, made history in 2017 when she became the first Black, openly transgender woman elected to office in the United States.

She represented the district in which George Floyd was killed in May 2020, and was re-elected in her prior race in a landslide. But she faced a tough battle after losing the Minneapolis DFL endorsement to Soren Stevenson, a Democratic Socialist.

Jenkins was the last race to reach an unofficially final tabulation. Here are the full results for the Minneapolis City Council races:

• City Council Ward 1: Elliott Payne
• City Council Ward 2: Robin Wonsley
• City Council Ward 3: Michael Rainville
• City Council Ward 4: LaTrisha M. Vetaw
• City Council Ward 5: Jeremiah Bey Ellison
• City Council Ward 6: Jamal Osman
• City Council Ward 7: Katie Cashman
• City Council Ward 8: Andrea Jenkins
• City Council Ward 9: Jason Chavez
• City Council Ward 10: Aisha Chughtai
• City Council Ward 11: Emily Koski
• City Council Ward 12: Aurin Chowdhury
• City Council Ward 13: Linea Palmisano 

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Election officials in Minneapolis say Jamal Osman is the unofficial winner in the Ward 6 City Council race.

It appears that there are now only two wards left undecided for Minneapolis City Council. 

On Wednesday morning, Minneapolis election officials said tabulation is complete for City Council Ward 7, with Katie Cashman being the unofficial winner. 

Voters in St. Paul passed a tax increase that will raise the sales tax rate to 9.875% — the highest in the state.

The hike is expected to generate $1 billion in revenue over 20 years for roads, bridges, parks, and recreation.

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Voters across the state also voted on whether to give their local districts a funding boost.

One of the biggest is in Osseo, where community members approved more than $220 million for renovations and security improvements. That means property taxes will go up.

Residents of Minnesota's fifth-biggest city have voted in a new mayor.

Emily Larson, Duluth's progressive incumbent, faced a challenge from Roger Reinert, a more moderate candidate.

Reinert won Tuesday night with 60% of the vote.

The office of mayor is nonpartisan, but Reinert beat Larson by nearly 30 points in a five-person DFL primary this summer.

Nadia Mohamed made history Tuesday night as St. Louis Park elected her as its new mayor, making her the first Somali-American mayor in the United States.

59% of voters voted for Mohammed as their first choice for mayor, defeating Dale A. Anderson.

Three years after Minnetonka approved ranked-choice voting, a question on this year's ballot asked if it should be repealed.

A majority of voters — 59% — voted no, so ranked-choice will remain the city's preferred system.

In Minneapolis, all 13 city council seats appeared on the ballot.

Candidates secured enough votes to win in 10 of them, according to preliminary results. The city uses ranked-choice voting, where voters pick first, second, and third preferences if they want to.

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Minnesotans checking for election results Tuesday night may be puzzled by the slow rollout.

WCCO's Esme Murphy spoke with Casey Carl, Minneapolis' city clerk, to find out why.

"Unofficial results cannot be posted until the early vote data and Election Day data have been merged at the precinct level and then can be posted," Carl said. "State law changes effective this year extended the time for voters to drop off ballots until 8 p.m., which impacts the ability to transport data to the County for uploading."

Carl says results should start uploading to the OSS website before 10 p.m.

On Election Night 2023, all city council seats are up for grabs in Minneapolis and St. Paul; a 1% sales tax hike in St. Paul; school board members in several communities; and dozens of referenda to improve schools.  

School referendums are on many Minnesotans' ballots on Election Day, with many asking for extra money from taxpayers.

Grand Rapids Public Schools asked voters to approve a $305 million bond proposal. Thousands poured into the city's public library Tuesday and voted on the tax increase to fund the school district. 

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More women think access to reproductive care is getting harder, not easier, in the wake of the overturning of Roe v. Wade — and more than half of women say that being pregnant in the U.S. today is becoming more dangerous from a health-care perspective. Few think it is becoming safer.

But given the choice, abortion opponents would take this tradeoff: living in a state with fewer women's health doctors or maternity centers, if that meant also more restrictions on abortion, too. See CBS News' latest poll on abortion here.

Things are looking "routine and standard" on Election Day, a senior official from the nation's cyber security agency CISA said Tuesday.

"We continue to see no specific or critical threat to disrupt election infrastructure or Election Day operations," the official said Tuesday, reports Nicole Sganga. As voters go to the polls, the official also said the agency is "not seeing anything at this time that indicates any type of nefarious activity," though "Mother nature or human error" may cause some disruptions across the states voting on Tuesday.

After polls close Tuesday night, WCCO will stream a half-hour election special on CBS News Minnesota at 9:30 p.m.

You can watch the special in the video player below, live on CBS News Minnesota on Pluto TV or on the CBS News app on your phone or connected TV.