Without an incumbent in the race and just a $20 filing fee, a possible record number of candidates have jumped into the Minneapolis mayor’s race.
Filings for the race ended Tuesday, and 35 candidates are now officially in the running. They have until Thursday to withdraw.
Most of the candidates will not mount a well-organized or well-funded campaign, but the city’s use of ranked-choice voting — where voters may list their first, second and third choices — might give some hope to some of the lesser-known candidates.
R.T. Rybak is not seeking a fourth term, and the city DFL Party did not endorse a candidate.
The field includes two current City Council members (Betsy Hodges and Don Samuels), two former City Council members (Dan Cohen and Jackie Cherryhomes) and one former Hennepin County commissioner (Mark Andrew).
The 35 candidates, in alphabetical order and as their names will appear on the ballot:
- Mark V. Anderson
- Merrill Anderson
- Mark Andrew
- Neal Baxter
- Troy Benjegerdes
- Alicia K. Bennett
- Edmund Bernard Bruyere
- Bob “Again” Carney Jr.
- Jackie Cherryhomes
- Christopher Clark
- Dan Cohen
- James Everett
- Bob Fine
- Cyd Gorman
- Mike Gould
- Kurtis W. Hanna
- John Leslie Hartwig
- Betsey Hodges
- Gregg A. Iverson
- Bill Kahn
- Jaymie Kelly
- Tony Lane
- Doug Mann
- Abdul M. Rahaman “The Rock”
- Joshua Rea
- Don Samuels
- Ole Savior
- Captain Jack Sparrow
- James “Jimmy” L. Stroud Jr.
- Jeffrey Alan Wagner
- John Charles Wilson
- Cam Winton
- Stephanie Woodruff
- Rahn V. Workcuff
- Christopher Robin Zimmerman.
