Troy Benjegerdes
Troy Benjegerdes (Democratic Party) ran for election for Mayor of Minneapolis in Minnesota. Benjegerdes lost in the general election on November 2, 2021.
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
Benjegerdes earned a B.S. in electrical and electronics engineering from Iowa State University.[2]
At the time of his 2017 run for mayor, Benjegerdes was a financial cryptography economics engineer for Bloq, Inc. and an agronomic artist and holistic engineer for 7 Elements LLC. His professional experience also includes work as a consultant and professional services provider for Grid.coop, an embedded Linux consultant for Aerotek, and a software engineer for Cray Inc.[2]
Elections
2021
See also: Mayoral election in Minneapolis, Minnesota (2021)
General election
General election for Mayor of Minneapolis
The ranked-choice voting election was won by Jacob Frey in round 2 . The results of Round are displayed below. To see the results of other rounds, use the dropdown menu above to select a round and the table will update.
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Total votes: 143,974 |
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 = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
2017
Minneapolis, Minnesota, held a general election for mayor, all 13 seats on the city council, both elected members of the board of estimate and taxation, and all nine members of the park and recreation board on November 7, 2017. The filing deadline for candidates who wished to run in this election was August 15, 2017.
Incumbents ran for re-election to all but two of the city council seats. Ward 3 Councilman Jacob Frey filed to run for mayor instead, and Ward 8 Councilwoman Elizabeth Glidden opted not to run for re-election.[3]
| Minneapolis Mayor, 2017, Round 5 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | Transfer |
| Betsy Hodges (i) - Eliminated | 0% | 0 | −26,875 |
| Raymond Dehn | 42.8% | 34,971 | 7,613 |
| Al Flowers | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Jacob Frey - Winner | 57.2% | 46,716 | 7,348 |
| Tom Hoch | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Gregg Iverson | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Nekima Levy-Pounds | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Aswar Rahman | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Charlie Gers | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| L.A. Nik | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Troy Benjegerdes | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Ron Lischeid | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| David Rosenfeld | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Ian Simpson | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Captain Jack Sparrow | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| David John Wilson | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Christopher Robin Zimmerman (Write-in) | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Theron Preston Washington (Write-in) | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Undeclared Write-ins | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Exhausted | 22,835 | 11,914 | |
| Total Votes | 104,522 | 0 | |
| Note: Negative numbers in the transfer total are due to exhaustion by overvotes. | |||
| Minneapolis Mayor, 2017, Round 4 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | Transfer |
| Betsy Hodges (i) | 28.7% | 26,875 | 3,364 |
| Raymond Dehn | 29.2% | 27,358 | 3,330 |
| Al Flowers | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Jacob Frey - Most votes | 42.1% | 39,368 | 9,888 |
| Tom Hoch - Eliminated | 0% | 0 | −22,754 |
| Gregg Iverson | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Nekima Levy-Pounds | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Aswar Rahman | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Charlie Gers | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| L.A. Nik | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Troy Benjegerdes | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Ron Lischeid | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| David Rosenfeld | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Ian Simpson | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Captain Jack Sparrow | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| David John Wilson | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Christopher Robin Zimmerman (Write-in) | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Theron Preston Washington (Write-in) | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Undeclared Write-ins | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Exhausted | 10,921 | 6,172 | |
| Total Votes | 104,522 | 0 | |
| Note: Negative numbers in the transfer total are due to exhaustion by overvotes. | |||
| Minneapolis Mayor, 2017, Round 3 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | Transfer |
| Betsy Hodges (i) | 23.6% | 23,511 | 4,044 |
| Raymond Dehn | 24.1% | 24,028 | 5,454 |
| Al Flowers | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Jacob Frey - Most votes | 29.5% | 29,480 | 2,730 |
| Tom Hoch | 22.8% | 22,754 | 1,842 |
| Gregg Iverson | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Nekima Levy-Pounds - Eliminated | 0% | 0 | −16,189 |
| Aswar Rahman | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Charlie Gers | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| L.A. Nik | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Troy Benjegerdes | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Ron Lischeid | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| David Rosenfeld | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Ian Simpson | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Captain Jack Sparrow | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| David John Wilson | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Christopher Robin Zimmerman (Write-in) | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Theron Preston Washington (Write-in) | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Undeclared Write-ins | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Exhausted | 4,749 | 2,119 | |
| Total Votes | 104,522 | 0 | |
| Note: Negative numbers in the transfer total are due to exhaustion by overvotes. | |||
| Minneapolis Mayor, 2017, Round 2 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | Transfer |
| Betsy Hodges (i) | 19.1% | 19,467 | 552 |
| Raymond Dehn | 18.2% | 18,574 | 473 |
| Al Flowers - Eliminated | 0% | 0 | −711 |
| Jacob Frey - Most votes | 26.3% | 26,750 | 634 |
| Tom Hoch | 20.5% | 20,912 | 787 |
| Gregg Iverson - Eliminated | 0% | 0 | −335 |
| Nekima Levy-Pounds | 15.9% | 16,189 | 473 |
| Aswar Rahman - Eliminated | 0% | 0 | −756 |
| Charlie Gers - Eliminated | 0% | 0 | −1,233 |
| L.A. Nik - Eliminated | 0% | 0 | −612 |
| Troy Benjegerdes - Eliminated | 0% | 0 | −184 |
| Ron Lischeid - Eliminated | 0% | 0 | −325 |
| David Rosenfeld - Eliminated | 0% | 0 | −477 |
| Ian Simpson - Eliminated | 0% | 0 | −119 |
| Captain Jack Sparrow - Eliminated | 0% | 0 | −438 |
| David John Wilson - Eliminated | 0% | 0 | −220 |
| Christopher Robin Zimmerman (Write-in) - Eliminated | 0% | 0 | −1 |
| Theron Preston Washington (Write-in) - Eliminated | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Undeclared Write-ins - Eliminated | 0% | 0 | −138 |
| Exhausted | 2,630 | 2,630 | |
| Total Votes | 104,522 | 0 | |
| Note: Negative numbers in the transfer total are due to exhaustion by overvotes. | |||
This is the first round of voting. To view subsequent rounds, click the [show] button next to that round.
| Minneapolis Mayor, 2017, Round 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | Transfer |
| Betsy Hodges (i) | 18.1% | 18,915 | |
| Raymond Dehn | 17.3% | 18,101 | |
| Al Flowers | 0.7% | 711 | |
| Jacob Frey - Most votes | 25% | 26,116 | |
| Tom Hoch | 19.3% | 20,125 | |
| Gregg Iverson | 0.3% | 335 | |
| Nekima Levy-Pounds | 15% | 15,716 | |
| Aswar Rahman | 0.7% | 756 | |
| Charlie Gers | 1.2% | 1,233 | |
| L.A. Nik | 0.6% | 612 | |
| Troy Benjegerdes | 0.2% | 184 | |
| Ron Lischeid | 0.3% | 325 | |
| David Rosenfeld | 0.5% | 477 | |
| Ian Simpson | 0.1% | 119 | |
| Captain Jack Sparrow | 0.4% | 438 | |
| David John Wilson | 0.2% | 220 | |
| Christopher Robin Zimmerman (Write-in) | 0% | 1 | |
| Theron Preston Washington (Write-in) | 0% | 0 | |
| Undeclared Write-ins | 0.1% | 138 | |
| Exhausted | 0 | 0 | |
| Total Votes | 104,522 | 0 | |
| Note: Negative numbers in the transfer total are due to exhaustion by overvotes. | |||
Campaign themes
2021
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Troy Benjegerdes did not complete Ballotpedia's 2021 Candidate Connection survey.
2017
In response to a question from KARE about why he was running, Benjegerdes said:
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I am running for mayor because with ranked choice voting, I can bring up issues which would never make it into the traditional two-party (or in Minneapolis, one-party) political system. I want to raise awareness of the potential for financial cryptography and cryptocurrencies to allow states and cities to experiment with new (or old) ideas like Basic Income instead of letting the only discussion about money supply or how it's distributed take place in a corrupt partisan political process halfway across the country.[4] |
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| —Troy Benjegerdes (2017)[5] | ||
He listed his main issues as "Local currency, local food, local energy."[5]
2013
In response to a question from the Minneapolis Star Tribune about his priority if elected, Benjegerdes said:
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My priority is to provide this city with a choice, and a voice in where food and energy come from. I'll do this by looking locally for energy, and to urban farmers who have the ability to own the urban gardens they farm, with local currency options to keep wealth in our community. We also have an important choice in the energy we citizens and businesses in Minneapolis will use and pay over $15 billion for in the next 30 years. Vote for me in the top three to get an energy alternative to utility business as usual.[4] |
” |
| —Troy Benjegerdes (2013)[6] | ||
He offered the following ideas to address job and population growth, reduce crime, and lower property taxes:[6]
- Job and population growth: "Promote urban solar, make it easier to start a local food business, and improve transit effectiveness."
- Reduce crime: "Transparency, both of police and of crime reports. Find ways to get a block club leader on every block."
- Lower property taxes: "Allow payment of property taxes in a local currency."
See also
2021 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Minneapolis Elections & Voter Services, "FAQ: Can I list a political party affiliation or principle?", accessed August 16, 2021
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 LinkedIn, "Troy Benjegerdes," accessed October 24, 2017
- ↑ Minneapolis Star Tribune, "Elizabeth Glidden Won't Seek Re-election to Minneapolis City Council," December 12, 2016
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 KARE, "Troy Benjegerdes," October 15, 2017
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Minneapolis Star Tribune, "Troy Benjegerdes," October 5, 2013
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