A five-year-old boy's run as mayor is over in a tiny tourist town in northern Minnesota.

Robert "Bobby" Tufts lost his bid for a third consecutive term as mayor of Dorset. Sixteen-year-old Eric Mueller of Mendota Heights, Minnesota, won when his name was drawn from the ballot box during the annual Taste of Dorset festival.

Bobby was only three when he was first elected mayor in 2013. Dorset, about 150 miles north west of Minneapolis, has no formal city government and a population ranging from nine to 28. One of Bobby's major acts was to declare ice cream top of the food pyramid.

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