All 13 seats on the Minneapolis City Council were up for election on November 4, 2025. While the Minneapolis municipal elections are officially nonpartisan, media outlets reported the council's progressive bloc maintained a seven-member majority but lost the ability to override Mayor Jacob Frey's vetoes. Nine votes are required to override a mayoral veto in Minneapolis.

According to Fox 9-TV's Mike Manzoni, progressives won a majority on the council in 2023 and "occasionally found two additional votes to get the nine needed to override a mayoral veto."

The Minnesota Star Tribune's Matt McKinney wrote, "In 2024, the bloc overrode Frey’s vetoes of a minimum pay rate for rideshare drivers, an Israel-Hamas ceasefire resolution and a carbon emissions fee. The bloc attempted but failed to override Frey’s veto of a new labor standards board and a denial of raises for about 160 high-paid city employees that Frey supported." In December 2024, the city council also overturned Frey's veto of the 2025 city budget.

The Minneapolis mayoral election was one of several in 2025, the political observers described as highlighting a moderate-progressive split in the Democratic Party. In that race, Frey, who described himself as a pragmatic progressive, defeated Omar Fateh, who described himself as a Democratic socialist.

All 13 city council races were contested. Ten city council incumbents ran for re-election, and nine were re-elected. One incumbent lost in the general election. In that race, Elizabeth Shaffer defeated incumbent Katie Cashman 52.1%-45.9%.

Elections in Minneapolis are officially nonpartisan, but the Minneapolis City Charter allows mayoral and city council candidates to choose a party label to appear below their name on the official ballot. Ballotpedia includes candidates' party or principle to best reflect what voters will see on their ballot.

Of the 40 candidates who ran, 30 were Democrats, one was Republican, and nine were third-party or independent candidates. Twelve of the winning candidates chose Democrat as their party label, one—Robin Wonsley—chose Democratic Socialists of America as her label.

Minneapolis used ranked-choice voting in the election. Click here to learn more about that process.

This will be the first Minneapolis City Council to serve four-year terms since the council that was elected in 2017. This is due to House File 653, which states that following redistricting after the U.S. Census, certain cities "where council members are elected by ward to serve for four years to terms that are not staggered, if the population of any ward changes by five percent or more, all council members must be elected to new terms at the first municipal general election after ward boundaries are redefined" and that " if no municipal general election would otherwise occur in the year ending in '2' or the year ending in '3,' a municipal general election must be held in one of those years."The state Legislature enacted House File 653 in 2010.

City council members who were elected in 2021 and 2023 served two-year terms.