Teneshia Kragness has won the race for Brooklyn Center mayor against challenger Alexander Koenig, according to unofficial results from the Minnesota Secretary of State.<\/p>\n
Kragness received 6,068 votes, or 64.42%, while Koenig received 3,294 votes, or 34.97%.<\/p>\n
Mayor April Graves did not run for reelection, and the Aug. 11 primary narrowed a four-person candidate pool down to Kragness and Koenig.<\/p>\n
Kragness, who works as an accountant, was elected to the Brooklyn Center City Council in 2022. She opted to run for mayor rather than a second term on the council.<\/p>\n
Strengthening Brooklyn Center\u2019s economic base and improving the relationship between law enforcement and the community were among her stated campaign goals.<\/p>\n
Koenig serves as chair of the Brooklyn Center Planning Commission and describes himself as a business professional. Fiscal discipline, a stronger tax base and new investment were among his stated platform priorities.<\/p>\n
Once the results are certified, Kragness will serve a four-year term beginning in 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Teneshia Kragness has won the race for Brooklyn Center mayor against challenger Alexander Koenig, according to unofficial results…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[141934,111224,39465,98,9185,39456,121797,141935,100,99,17200,141932,129689,8041,1092,3280,141931,141933,9,24,63,10783,17878],"class_list":["post-393223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-accountant","tag-alexander-koenig","tag-april-graves","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-center","tag-brooklyn-center-city-council","tag-brooklyn-center-mayor","tag-brooklyn-center-planning-commission","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-chair","tag-elections-in-the-united-states","tag-kragness","tag-law-enforcement","tag-mayor","tag-mayoral-race","tag-minnesota-elections","tag-minnesota-senate-election","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-primary","tag-secretary-of-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}