Minneapolis's mayoral race will be decided by ranked-vote choice after no candidate secured a majority of votes Tuesday night.

Incumbent Mayor Jacob Frey currently leads the crowded 15-candidate field with over 61,000 votes, or 41.7% slightly ahead of democratic socialist Omar Fateh's 46,000 or 31.6% of the vote.

A winner is chosen when a candidate has 50% plus one of the votes.

Fateh, a 35-year-old Somali American state senator, has been likened to NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.

Starting Wednesday, the candidates with the fewest votes are eliminated from the next round of counting and second and third-choice rankings will be allocated to the remaining candidates.

The city allows voters to rank up to three candidates in its municipal races.

“Nobody’s declaring victory tonight,” Frey told supporters. “But what I will tell you is, we are well in the lead, and we are well on the way. And we are super excited about where this city is going.”

“So tonight, this race is too close to call,” Fateh said at a separate gathering. “And that’s OK because every vote must be counted and reallocated.”

Governor Gavin Newsom didn't mince words in attacking President Trump in his speech following the passing of Proposition 50 in California.

Newsom held a brief press conference Tuesday night where he delivered remarks about an hour after Prop 50 was passed in an overwhelming majority.

"It was not just a victory tonight for the Democratic Party, it was a victory for the United States of America, for the people of this country and the principles that our founding fathers lived and died for," exclaimed Newsom.

"He is the most historically unpopular President in modern history in every critical category, Donald Trump is under water. He promised to make us healthier, he promised to make us wealthier. We’re sicker and poorer, and he fundamentally understands that. Why else would he call Greg Abbott saying he’s entitled to five seats? Why else is he trying to rig the midterm elections before one single vote is even cast? He understands his position at this moment in the United States of America," Newsom added, turning his attention to President Trump.

"Tonight I am proud, but I am very mindful and sober of the moment we are living in. Donald Trump does not believe in fair and free elections. Period and full stop, this is not complicated," Newsom said, ending the presser after about ten minutes.

An ebullient Mikie Sherrill said President Trump should restore funding to a massive tunnel and railroad construction project in the Garden State in the minutes following her decisive election victory in the NJ governor's race.

"Fund the Gateway tunnel!" the smiling governor-elect told The Post at her victory party in East Brunswick when asked what she would say to the president in that moment.

Trump said last month he was "terminating" billions of dollars in funding for the project, which was slated to build a new two-track rail tunnel beneath the Hudson River connecting New Jersey and New York Penn Station.

Sherrill was declared the victor by a wide margin after a bruising campaign against GOP businessman Jack Ciattarelli.

The new maps were hastily hashed out in August in response to a similar redistricting scheme in Texas designed to hand more seats to the GOP. It’s a fight-fire-with-fire strategy meant to balance the scales in Washington.

As it stands, a bipartisan commission is in charge of California’s maps, not the state’s Democratic legislature. Prop 50 would give the legislature power to impose its own electoral maps for the 2026, 2028 and 2030 elections.

Newsom and his supporters are pretty transparent about their motives. The ballot item clearly states that Prop 50 “authorizes temporary changes to congressional district maps in response to Texas’ partisan redistricting.”

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California’s Prop 50, a contentious redistricting measure spearheaded by Gov. Gavin Newsom, passed, aiming to flip five congressional seats for Democrats in the 2026 midterms. Despite its estimated $200 million cost and criticism, the proposition received strong support from prominent Democrats, setting the stage for a significant political shift in the state and potentially boosting Newsom’s 2028 presidential aspirations.

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Polls have officially closed in California, where voters were considering Prop 50, a bid to redistrict the state aggressively in favor of Democrats.

Governor Gavin Newsom has justified the move, arguing its only fair that California changes its congressional districts as GOP-favorable maps are considered in red states.

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) said Sherrill's win in the New Jersey gubernatorial race at least in part due to the droves of conservatives who fled New Jersey and moved to Florida in the wake of strict COVID policies and Democratic governance.

Virginia Democratic Attorney General-elect Jay Jones declared there were "big fights ahead" in a five-minute acceptance speech -- while avoiding any comment about his own words advocating political violence

In describing the "hard-fought campaign," Jones told supporters that "this election has never been about me or my opponent, it has always been about every single one of us and the future of Virginia."

"The weight of that trust is not lost on me at all," he said.

"This victory is for you and for every Virginian who is lying awake right now ... because they are worried about their future," he added. "I will defend the rights of every single Virginian ... from Donald Trump's attacks."

Jones went on to rattle off his commitment to protecting environmental efforts and access to abortion -- while denouncing "Donald Trump, MAGA and those corporate special interests."

The election proved, he said, that voters had a "loud message: Virginia belongs to the people."

Jones also thanked "Jason Miyares for his service to this Commonwealth" promised to meet with him during the transition period to discuss how "best" to serve Virginians.

"My ancestors were slaves," he also noted, referencing his family's history. "My grandfather was a Civil Rights pioneer who braved Jim Crow. My father, my mother, my uncles, my aunts endured segregation -- all so that I could stand before you today."

Republican Jack Ciattarelli publicly conceded his loss to New Jersey Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill and expressed optimism that she will usurp some of his policy solutions.

"I believe in my brand of leadership," he said. "It is my hope that Mikie Sherrill has heard us in terms of what we need to do to make New Jersey a place where everybody can once again feel they can achieve their American dream," he said.

"But having said that, I stand before you right now, proud of all of you for what you did for this campaign, proud of what my team did on behalf of this campaign, and proud of my effort."

Ciattarelli then ticked through some of his agenda items that he hopes Sherrill will borrow from.

Republican Jack Ciattarelli vowed that he isn't bailing on the Garden State despite his electoral loss and underscored that he is still passionate about fixing New Jersey.

"I'm more passionate than ever that these are the issues that need to be solved, because if they're not, I fear for the future of New Jersey," he explained in his concession speech.

"My motivation in running, and my objective in serving, if we had won, was to fix the state of New Jersey."

"The fight doesn't end," he later added. "I'm not retiring to Florida, even though there's no income tax there ... New Jersey has been home for 100 years. [It] will continue to be my home."

Sean Ryan, a New York state senator, shellacked his opponents in the race for Buffalo's mayoralty.

Ryan, a lawyer, was leading 70% to Republican opponent James Gardner's 24.5% as of 10:20pm, with 58% of votes. counted.

Virginia Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares in a concession speech emphasized the "decency" he'd observed among voters in the race's final months.

"It is truly the honor of my life to have been your attorney general," he said.