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The 2024 Portland municipal elections were held on November 5, 2024, to elect the mayor, city auditor and city council of Portland, Oregon.This was the first Portland election to use ranked-choice voting (instant-runoff voting for the mayor's position; single transferable voting for city councillors) following the implementation of charter reform approved by voters in a 2022 ballot measure.
The 2024 Portland mayoral election was held on November 5, 2024, to elect the mayor of Portland, Oregon. Businessman Keith Wilson was elected, defeating 3 city council members and 15 other candidates.
Wheeler won the election, becoming Portland's first mayor to win a second consecutive term since Vera Katz left office in 2005. Ultimately, almost 48,000 write-in votes were cast in the election, far exceeding Wheeler's approximately 20,000-vote margin of victory.
Nov. 16—Mark Dion won the Portland mayoral election by a small margin — about 650 votes. After months of campaigning, more than a dozen debates and a better-than-expected voter turnout, he ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A lot of political changes are coming to Portland, Oregon. The open mayoral race in the state’s most populous city features 19 candidates — all vying to lead after years of growing frustration over homeless encampments. Among them: three City Council members, including one ensnared in a driving record scandal; a ...
Nov. 9—Several key proposals before Portland voters, including a change to the structure of city government and an increase in the minimum wage, were lacking support in early results Tuesday night.
The 2024 Portland City Council elections were held on November 5, 2024. It was the first election under Portland's new form of government, the first election to elect a city council instead of a city commission, the first without a primary, the first where every seat was up for election, and the first under a proportional ranked-choice voting system (single transferable voting) as opposed to a ...
Keith D. Wilson (born 1962 or 1963) [1] is an American businessman, nonprofit executive, and Democratic politician who is currently serving as the 54th mayor of Portland, Oregon after winning the 2024 election. [2] [3] He is the president and chief executive officer of Titan Freight Systems.