Erica Zweifel (Mayor of Northfield, Minnesota, candidate 2024)
Do you have a photo that could go here? Click here to submit it for this profile!
Erica Zweifel ran for election to the Mayor of Northfield in Minnesota. Zweifel was on the ballot in the general election on November 5, 2024.[source]
Zweifel completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
[1]Biography
Erica Zweifel provided the following biographical information via Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey on October 6, 2024:
- Bachelor's: University of Washington
- Profession: Higher Education
- Prior offices held:
- Northfield City Council Ward Three (2009-2020)
- Incumbent officeholder: No
- Campaign website
- Campaign Facebook
Elections
General election
General election for Mayor of Northfield
Ruth Dahl and Erica Zweifel ran in the general election for Mayor of Northfield on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | ||
| Ruth Dahl (Nonpartisan) | ||
Erica Zweifel (Nonpartisan)  | ||
| ||||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Mayor of Northfield
The following candidates ran in the primary for Mayor of Northfield on August 13, 2024.
Candidate | ||
| Timothy Babbini (Nonpartisan) | ||
| Ruth Dahl (Nonpartisan) | ||
| Adam Gebler (Nonpartisan) | ||
| Michael J. Kirschling (Nonpartisan) | ||
| Rhonda Pownell (Nonpartisan) | ||
| George Zuccolotto (Nonpartisan) | ||
| Erica Zweifel (Nonpartisan) | ||
| ||||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Election results
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Zweifel in this election.
Campaign themes
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Erica Zweifel completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Zweifel's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
| Collapse all
- More voices at the table leads to better solutions for Northfield. I’m committed to real engagement which prioritizes constituent voices, welcomes debate, and tells people how their input is used to make decisions. Public input must happen earlier during city project planning so local knowledge can be used to plan rather than be limited to comments on final projects. City Hall needs to slow down and operate at a pace where constituent voices can equitably be incorporated into decision making. As mayor, I’ll keep talking with you, prioritize your voice, welcome debate, and tell you how you how your input shapes decisions.
- Local government focuses on providing services and maintaining infrastructure while planning for future growth and development. As mayor a top priority will be adding to Northfield's commercial/industrial tax base. To achieve this we should support our local businesses in their success and plans for the future. We should focus commercial recruitment to businesses complimentary to our top economic sectors; Healthcare, Education and Manufacturing. To support local employees we need to add housing, improve our transportation system and upgrade our parks.
- As mayor an equity lens would factor into all of my decision making. Whether it is funding for parks or putting in sidewalks, I would evaluate how the action impacts all Northfielders. Our latest park plan calls out an equity imbalance in Northfield's parks and yet little has been done to address it.
I started my career as a scientist and I am passionate about addressing climate change. Northfield's biggest climate threats are flooding and intense rain events. We need to keep investing in flood mitigation efforts in Northfield and collaborating regionally on this issue.
The nonfiction book that I find myself referencing most is Project Drawdown. The book and the website https://drawdown.org/, have helped me prioritize my climate work and given me hope for climate solutions.
Note: Ballotpedia reserves the right to edit Candidate Connection survey responses. Any edits made by Ballotpedia will be clearly marked with [brackets] for the public. If the candidate disagrees with an edit, he or she may request the full removal of the survey response from Ballotpedia.org. Ballotpedia does not edit or correct typographical errors unless the candidate's campaign requests it.
See also
2024 Elections
External links
Footnotes
