Omar Fateh

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Omar Fateh
Image of Omar Fateh

Candidate, Mayor of Minneapolis

Minnesota State Senate District 62
Tenure

2021 - Present

Term ends

2027

Years in position

4

Predecessor

Compensation

Base salary

$51,750/year

Per diem

$86/day

Elections and appointments
Last elected

November 8, 2022

Next election

November 4, 2025

Education

High school

Falls Church High School

Bachelor's

George Mason University

Graduate

George Mason University

Personal
Birthplace
Virginia
Profession
Analyst
Contact

Omar Fateh (Democratic Party) is a member of the Minnesota State Senate, representing District 62. He assumed office on January 5, 2021. His current term ends on January 5, 2027.

Fateh is running for election for Mayor of Minneapolis in Minnesota. He is on the ballot in the general election on November 4, 2025.[source]

Fateh completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. Click here to read the survey answers.

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.[1]

Biography

Omar Fateh was born in Washington, D.C., and lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.[2] Fateh graduated from Falls Church High School. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees in public administration from George Mason University. Fateh's career experience includes working as a campaign finance analyst for the Federal Election Commission and as an academic advisor with Northern Virginia Community College.[2][3]

2025 battleground election

See also: Mayoral election in Minneapolis, Minnesota (2025)

Ballotpedia identified the November 4, 2025, general election as a battleground election. The summary below is from our coverage of this election, found here.

Incumbent Jacob Frey (D), Omar Fateh (D), and 13 other candidates are running in the nonpartisan general election for mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota, on November 4, 2025.

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.[4]

Frey was first elected in 2017, defeating incumbent Betsy Hodges (D) in the fifth round of ranked-choice voting. Frey, a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL), says he is a pragmatic progressive.[5] He says, "I’m running because with everything going on in the world, experience matters. ... I have stood up for what’s best for our city even when it was not politically expedient to do so. It’s time for us to love our city more than our ideology. Together, we can make Minneapolis a national model for progressive governance that is laser-focused not on politics, but on delivering for residents."[6]

Fateh is also a DFL member, and says he is a democratic socialist. He was elected to the Minnesota Senate, representing District 62, in 2020. Fateh says, "We deserve leadership that makes it so people want to continue to live here, raise families here, and start businesses here. ... We need a Mayor who understands that a city that lifts up working people is a city that lifts up everyone. Because when the city invests in us, we have more time to invest in the people we love."[7]

While the city's mayor has been a DFL member since 1978, the election has highlighted divisions within the larger party, primarily between Fateh's democratic socialists and democrats who support Frey.[8] For example, the Minneapolis DFL endorsed Fateh at a convention on July 19, 2025, but the Minnesota DFL revoked the endorsement on August 21, 2025, after Frey's supporters alleged issues with the electronic voting system. To learn more click here.[5]

Party divisions predate Fateh's revoked endorsement. Following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020, the Democratic city council disagreed with Frey on police reform, specifically on defunding the police.[9][10] According to the MinnPost, "A coalition of Minneapolis candidates fueled by left-wing energy and skepticism of the status quo at City Hall secured a majority on the City Council [during the 2023] municipal elections, winning seven of 13 seats."[11] As of September 9, 2025, five of the seven progressive councilmembers endorsed Fateh, as well as one councilmember, Jamal Osman (D), who was not aligned with either the seven progressive councilmembers or councilmembers who typically support Frey. Three councilmembers who typically support Frey endorsed him.[12][13]

Also running in the general are Andrea Revel, Troy Peterson, Kevin Ward, Xavier Pauke, Adam Terzich, Kevin A. Dwire, Charlie McCloud, Alejandro Richardson, Laverne Turner, Jeffrey Wagner, DeWayne Davis, Jazz Hampton, and Brenda Short.

Minneapolis uses ranked-choice voting to elect city officials. Voters can rank up to three mayoral candidates on their ballots. Click here to learn more about how ranked-choice voting works in this election.

Minneapolis has a strong mayor-council system. The city council serves as the city's primary legislative body and the mayor is considered the city's chief executive.[14][15]

Committee assignments

2025-2026

Fateh was assigned to the following committees:

2023-2024

Fateh was assigned to the following committees:

2021-2022

Fateh was assigned to the following committees:

The following table lists bills this person sponsored as a legislator, according to BillTrack50 and sorted by action history. Bills are sorted by the date of their last action. The following list may not be comprehensive. To see all bills this legislator sponsored, click on the legislator's name in the title of the table.


Elections

2025

See also: Mayoral election in Minneapolis, Minnesota (2025)

General election

The general election will occur on November 4, 2025.

General election for Mayor of Minneapolis

The following candidates are running in the general election for Mayor of Minneapolis on November 4, 2025.

Candidate
Image of Jacob Frey
Jacob Frey (Nonpartisan)
Andrea Revel (For the People Party)
Troy Peterson (Momunist Party)
Kevin Ward (Nobody's Party)
Image of Xavier Pauke
Xavier Pauke (Protecting Tomorrow's Dreams)
Adam Terzich (Renaissance Party)
Kevin A. Dwire (Socialist Workers Party)
Charlie McCloud (Unaffiliated)
Alejandro Richardson (Unaffiliated)
Image of Laverne Turner
Laverne Turner (Unaffiliated)
Jeffrey Wagner (Why Not Wagner)
DeWayne Davis (Nonpartisan)
Image of Omar Fateh
Omar Fateh (Nonpartisan) Candidate Connection
Image of Jazz Hampton
Jazz Hampton (Nonpartisan)
Image of Brenda Short
Brenda Short (Nonpartisan)

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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Polls

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Election campaign finance

Candidates in this election submitted campaign finance reports to the City of Minneapolis. Click here to access those reports.

Satellite spending

See also: Satellite spending

Satellite spending describes political spending not controlled by candidates or their campaigns; that is, any political expenditures made by groups or individuals that are not directly affiliated with a candidate. This includes spending by political party committees, super PACs, trade associations, and 501(c)(4) nonprofit groups.[16][17][18]

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Endorsements

Fateh received the following endorsements. To view a full list of Fateh's endorsements as published by their campaign, click here. To send us additional endorsements, click here.

2022

See also: Minnesota State Senate elections, 2022

General election

General election for Minnesota State Senate District 62

Incumbent Omar Fateh defeated Andrew Schmitz in the general election for Minnesota State Senate District 62 on November 8, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Omar Fateh
Omar Fateh (D)
 
90.3
 
24,271
Andrew Schmitz (R)
 
9.4
 
2,528
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.3
 
84

Total votes: 26,883
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Minnesota State Senate District 62

Incumbent Omar Fateh defeated Shaun Laden in the Democratic primary for Minnesota State Senate District 62 on August 9, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Omar Fateh
Omar Fateh
 
60.7
 
7,416
Shaun Laden
 
39.3
 
4,811

Total votes: 12,227
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Minnesota State Senate District 62

Andrew Schmitz advanced from the Republican primary for Minnesota State Senate District 62 on August 9, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
Andrew Schmitz
 
100.0
 
301

Total votes: 301
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Campaign finance

2020

See also: Minnesota State Senate elections, 2020

General election

General election for Minnesota State Senate District 62

Omar Fateh defeated Bruce Lundeen in the general election for Minnesota State Senate District 62 on November 3, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Omar Fateh
Omar Fateh (D)
 
89.0
 
33,103
Image of Bruce Lundeen
Bruce Lundeen (R)
 
10.6
 
3,947
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.4
 
150

Total votes: 37,200
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Minnesota State Senate District 62

Omar Fateh defeated incumbent Jeff Hayden in the Democratic primary for Minnesota State Senate District 62 on August 11, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Omar Fateh
Omar Fateh
 
54.9
 
11,109
Image of Jeff Hayden
Jeff Hayden
 
45.1
 
9,140

Total votes: 20,249
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Minnesota State Senate District 62

Bruce Lundeen advanced from the Republican primary for Minnesota State Senate District 62 on August 11, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Bruce Lundeen
Bruce Lundeen
 
100.0
 
443

Total votes: 443
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Campaign finance

2018

See also: Minnesota House of Representatives elections, 2018

General election

General election for Minnesota House of Representatives District 62A

Hodan Hassan defeated Bruce Lundeen in the general election for Minnesota House of Representatives District 62A on November 6, 2018.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Hodan Hassan
Hodan Hassan (D)
 
90.4
 
13,107
Image of Bruce Lundeen
Bruce Lundeen (R)
 
8.8
 
1,281
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.8
 
113

Total votes: 14,501
(100.00% precincts reporting)
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Minnesota House of Representatives District 62A

Hodan Hassan defeated Osman Ahmed, Omar Fateh, Margarita Ortega, and Jen Kader in the Democratic primary for Minnesota House of Representatives District 62A on August 14, 2018.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Hodan Hassan
Hodan Hassan
 
28.4
 
2,207
Osman Ahmed
 
20.7
 
1,607
Image of Omar Fateh
Omar Fateh
 
20.6
 
1,602
Margarita Ortega
 
19.7
 
1,531
Jen Kader
 
10.6
 
822

Total votes: 7,769
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Minnesota House of Representatives District 62A

Bruce Lundeen advanced from the Republican primary for Minnesota House of Representatives District 62A on August 14, 2018.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Bruce Lundeen
Bruce Lundeen
 
100.0
 
218

Total votes: 218
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2015

See also: Fairfax County Public Schools elections (2015)

The Fairfax County School Board is a 12-member board elected to serve four-year terms. Three seats are elected at large and nine seats are elected by district.[19] All 12 seats were on the ballot on November 3, 2015.

At-large incumbents Ryan McElveen, Ilryong Moon and Ted Velkoff faced Robert Copeland, Omar Fateh, Jeanette Hough, Manar Jean-Jacques, Peter Marchetti and Burnette Scarboro for three seats. While Moon and McElveen won re-election, Velkoff was defeated, placing fourth to challenger Hough.

Braddock District incumbent Megan McLaughlin, Hunter Mill District incumbent Pat Hynes and Providence District incumbent Patricia Reed faced Katherine Pettigrew, Mark Wilkinson and Dalia Palchik, respectively. Dranesville District incumbent Jane Strauss competed against challenger Peter Kurzenhauser. McLaughlin, Hynes, and Strauss won re-election; the fourth incumbent, Reed, lost to Palchik.

The races for both the Mount Vernon District and Sully District seats featured newcomers after neither incumbent filed for re-election. Karen Corbett Sanders defeated W. Anthony Stacy in the Mount Vernon race, while Karen Keys-Gamarra lost to Thomas Wilson in the Sully District race. Lee District incumbent Tamara Derenak Kaufax, Mason District incumbent Sandra Evans and Springfield District incumbent Elizabeth Schultz all ran unopposed and won re-election to their seats.

Results

Fairfax County School Board, At-large, General Election, 2015
Candidate Vote % Votes
Green check mark transparent.png Ilryong Moon Incumbent 17.2% 84,364
Green check mark transparent.png Ryan McElveen Incumbent 17.0% 83,160
Green check mark transparent.png Jeanette Hough 16.3% 80,035
Ted Velkoff Incumbent 15.3% 74,948
Robert Copeland 15.2% 74,454
Manar Jean-Jacques 11.6% 57,043
Peter Marchetti 2.6% 12,809
Omar Fateh 2.3% 11,062
Burnette Scarboro 2.2% 10,676
Write-in votes 0.3% 1,458
Total Votes 490,009
Source: Virginia Department of Elections, "2015 November General", accessed November 3, 2015

Funding

Fateh reported $12,662.43 in contributions and $2,008.66 in expenditures to the Virginia State Board of Elections, which left his campaign with $10,653.77 on hand as of October 28, 2015.[20]

Endorsements

Fateh received an official endorsement for his campaign from the Fairfax Education Association PAC.[21]

Campaign themes

2025

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Ballotpedia survey responses

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Candidate Connection

Omar Fateh completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Fateh's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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My name is Omar Fateh – I’m a State Senator, husband, renter, son of Somali immigrants, and a long-time advocate for working people. I’m running for Mayor of Minneapolis to work with you to achieve the vibrant, loving city we know Minneapolis can be.

I currently serve as the Minnesota State Senator representing District 62, a seat I first won in 2020 and again in 2022. My terms in the Minnesota Legislature and my current mayoral campaign are the culmination of a life dedicated to improving the lives of my neighbors and fellow Minnesotans, informed by progressive values and strong community bonds.

My career in public service is defined by my belief that community members are experts on their own needs, and leaders must listen to them when developing policy. I have deep ties in our community and have worked on issues such as environmental and racial justice through restorative urban planning, including reparations to Black neighborhoods destroyed by highways. I will continue fighting for these initiatives as Mayor to ensure that Minneapolis becomes an equitable and welcoming city for all of its residents.
  • 1. Build a Minneapolis working people can afford to call home. This means:

    -Raising the minimum wage to $20/hr by 2028. -Passing rent stabilization while incentivizing new construction & tenant protections.

    We deserve: A Mayor who stands with working people.
  • 2. Protect our City from Donald Trump. This means: -MPD should not support ICE, whether it’s an Immigration raid or not. -Stand up against Trump’s attacks on healthcare and bodily autonomy. We deserve: A Mayor who won’t run from Trump, but will build the line of defense.
  • 3. Diversify our City’s public safety response. This means: -We need to fund non-police programs like mental health responders, crisis teams, and youth programs: 47% of MPD calls don’t require an armed response. -Fix the broken systems and clear the backlog of unsolved police cases. We deserve: Care, not crackdowns. That’s true public safety.
This campaign isn't about baby steps. It's about flipping the priorities. That is why I will:

-Build a Minneapolis working people can afford to call home
-Protect our City from Donald Trump

-Diversify our City's public safety response
From the streets to City Hall, Minneapolis is full of people who are ready to invest in long-term solutions that will bring security and stability to our communities. Minneapolis residents work hard for the city we love. We are City full of creative and caring residents that work hard and take care of each other. We deserve a Mayor that works as hard as we do.

From my first senate race in 2020, working in partnership with and being accountable to the community has been at the center of my campaigns and work. As a State Senator, I have worked in lock step with community members and leaders to fight for real, tangible changes for people in our city and state. This is reflected in my years-long work alongside Uber and Lyft drivers, pushing for raises and worker protections for all Uber and Lyft drivers in our state, despite facing vetoes from both the Governor and the Minneapolis Mayor. It is also reflected in my consistent presence and participation on picket lines, actions, and overall in the community.

As Mayor, I will continue to work in close partnership with community leaders and with residents of the City. I will make sure that leaders are brought to the decision-making table, I will hold public hearings and meetings ahead of every major decision the City has to make, and I will hold regular community hearings, forums, accountability sessions, meetings etc. throughout the city in areas that are easily accessible for everyone. We deserve a City that is accountable to us, and I know that the only way to achieve that is by working in lock step with the compassionate and creative residents of this city.
All the endorsements I have received can be found here: https://www.fatehformayor.com/endorsements
In 2020, I won state-level office and became the first Somali American and the first Muslim to serve in the Minnesota Senate. I authored 54 bills during the 2021-2022 legislative session, including a bill to exempt fentanyl test strips from classification as drug paraphernalia, which passed and has resulted in increased overdose prevention.

After winning reelection in 2022, I was appointed chair of the Higher Education Committee, and vice-chair of the Human Services Committee. My most notable achievements during this term have been a higher-education bill proposing free public college for students from households that make less than $80,000/year, and serving as chief author of a bill to secure a minimum wage and worker protections for Uber and Lyft drivers.

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2022

Omar Fateh did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.

2020

Omar Fateh did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.

2015

Candidate website

Fateh's campaign website listed the following themes for 2015:

As an At-Large Member of the School Board, my primary goal would be to more responsively serve the actual members of the entire community—from students and their families to teachers and staff—and to meet all of their diverse needs. I would seek, in particular, to provide more substantive representation to the County’s under-served populations, including minority students, disadvantaged students, and students with special needs, among others. In doing this, I would hope to make the County’s Student Achievement Goals realities for each and every student.

In order to make this possible, I’ll have to focus on three main areas:

Expanding Community Engagement

Many members of the community are unaware of what the School Board is or who their representatives are on the Board. We must be sensitive to the fact that the families of our diverse county face different realities, which obligates the School Board to reach out to parents on their terms. By effectively communicating with parents, students, and teachers to better understand their specific needs, we will be better equipped to serve the whole of the County, including the traditionally underrepresented communities.

As a Board member, I will also make it a priority to tap into the area’s valuable resources to benefit our students and the community as a whole. I will work to expand public-private partnerships, improving relationships with civic organizations, community leaders, as well as the Board of Supervisors.

Addressing the Needs of the Full Range of Students

For far too long, our low-income and minority students have fallen victim to the achievement gap, often from as early as before kindergarten. The county’s African-American and Latino student populations continually score between 20 and 25 percentage points lower than their peers on Math and Science SOL tests. Even worse, in my time as a college academic advisor, I witnessed countless students—even those with advanced test scores—enter college unprepared, some finding themselves placed in remedial Math and English courses, as well as starting their academic careers unsure of their strengths, passions and potential paths. I will work to provide students the support and resources they need to be better prepared to succeed in today’s ever-globalizing, modernizing economy, identifying their interests and potential career paths in an all-out effort to close the achievement gap.

Equitably Managing the County’s Rapid Growth

Working within the constraints of our County’s budget, I’ll seek to ensure that all students are provided with the necessary environments in which to learn, the best possible resources, and the most-qualified and fairly compensated teachers. I’ll treat our students and their educations as an investment rather than an expense, working more collaboratively with the community and its leaders, including the Board of Supervisors, to fairly and fully address the most pressing needs. As a School Board Member, I will put students first, investing in early childhood education, providing additional resources to those students who are the most at risk to fall victim to the achievement gap, and providing a stable and safe environment in the face of overcrowding and cost-cutting.[22]

—Omar Fateh, (2015)[23]

Campaign finance summary


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Omar Fateh campaign contribution history
YearOfficeStatusContributionsExpenditures
2022Minnesota State Senate District 62Won general$81,482 $95,362
2020Minnesota State Senate District 62Won general$98,974 N/A**
2018Minnesota House of Representatives District 62ALost primary$75,590 N/A**
Grand total$256,045 $95,362
Sources: OpenSecretsFederal Elections Commission ***This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
** Data on expenditures is not available for this election cycle
Note: Totals above reflect only available data.

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Footnotes

  1. City of Minneapolis, "Common questions about filing for office," accessed September 10, 2025
  2. 2.0 2.1 Facebook, "Omar Fateh," accessed January 22, 2021
  3. Fateh for School Board, "About," accessed October 14, 2015
  4. City of Minneapolis, "Common questions about filing for office," accessed September 10, 2025
  5. 5.0 5.1 CNN Politics, "Minnesota Democrats revoke endorsement of democratic socialist candidate for Minneapolis mayor," August 21, 2025
  6. Jacob Frey Mayor of Minneapolis, "News," January 29, 2025
  7. Omar Fateh for Minneapolis Mayor, "Why I’m Running for Mayor of Minneapolis," accessed September 9, 2025
  8. Mayor's Office, "Past and Present Mayors of Minneapolis," accessed September 9, 2025
  9. The Minnesota Star Tribune, "Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey plans to run for re-election, and others might challenge him," November 4, 2024
  10. The Downballot, "Morning Digest: One of next year's top races for mayor is already a contentious affair," December 3, 2024
  11. Minnpost, "Left-wing coalition makes gains in Minneapolis City Council election," November 8, 2023
  12. Jacob Frey Mayor of Minneapolis, "Endorsements," accessed September 9, 2025
  13. Omar Fateh for Minneapolis Mayor, "Endorsements," accessed September 9, 2025
  14. City of Minneapolis, "Roles of Mayor and City Council," accessed March 11, 2022
  15. City of Minneapolis, "Government structure," accessed March 11, 202
  16. OpenSecrets.org, "Outside Spending," accessed December 12, 2021
  17. OpenSecrets.org, "Total Outside Spending by Election Cycle, All Groups," accessed December 12, 2021
  18. National Review.com, "Why the Media Hate Super PACs," December 12, 2021
  19. Fairfax County Public Schools, "School Board: Overview," May 14, 2015
  20. Virginia State Board of Elections, "Campaign Finance Reports," accessed October 27, 2015
  21. Inside NoVA, "Fairfax Education Association PAC makes political endorsements," September 10, 2015
  22. Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
  23. Fateh for School Board, "Issues," accessed October 14, 2015

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