Ranked-choice Voting

Thanks to all the amazing people who worked on the Portland Charter Reform, we have a historic opportunity to use ranked-choice voting to elect three members to City Council from each district.

You have the opportunity to vote for six candidates in order of preference.

For more information about how ranked-choice voting works, visit www.portland.gov/vote/ranked-choice-voting.

More information about how this works in practice for City Council candidates (from the Portland.gov website):

Any candidate receiving more than 25% of the votes in a round is declared a winner. 

• If any candidate has received more votes than required to win, their extra votes are shifted to those voters’ next choice. 

• If no winner is determined in a round, the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated and any votes for that candidate are shifted to those voters’ next choice. 

• A new round begins, and this continues until three candidates have received at least 25% of the vote.  The winners are declared.