(NewsNation) — St. Paul voters will decide Tuesday whether to re-elect incumbent Mayor Melvin Carter or oust him for one of his four challengers.
Carter is running for a third consecutive term and is facing four challengers: Scientist and business owner Yan Chen, state Rep. Kaohly Her, engineer Adam Dullinger and entrepreneur Mike Hillborn. All the candidates in the race are non-partisan.
The election will be held using ranked-choice voting, a single-winner ranked voting election system where eliminations are used to simulate multiple runoff elections.
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One of the biggest themes of the St. Paul mayoral race has been property taxes. Candidates have said the city needs to diversify its revenue streams, but there have been few mentions of how that would be paid for. Candidates have specifically mentioned wanting to protect parks and libraries from budget cuts.
In St. Paul, individual campaign contributions are capped at $1,000 per person. Carter’s campaign brought in $210, 385.60, Chen’s brought in $156,203, Her’s brought in $62,955, Hillborn raised $21,229 and Dullinger did not file a campaign finance report, according to Checks and Balances.
In their last debate before election day, Carter, Chen and Her were pressed on economic development, housing, affordability, homelessness, immigration and basic city services.
Polls close in Minnesota at 9 p.m. ET on Tuesday. See results of the Minneapolis mayoral election in the tracker below:
