2015 Portland, Maine, mayoral election

2015 Portland, Maine, mayoral election

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Candidate Ethan Strimling Michael F. Brennan Tom MacMillan
Party Nonpartisan Nonpartisan Nonpartisan
Popular vote 9,162 6,882 1,880
Percentage 51.1% 38.4% 10.5%

Mayor before election

Michael F. Brennan

Elected mayor

Ethan Strimling

Portland, Maine, held an election for mayor on November 3, 2015.[1] It was the second election since Portland voters approved a citywide referendum changing the city charter to recreate an elected mayor position in 2010.[2]

The new citizen-elected mayor serves full-time in the position for a four-year term, exercises the powers and duties enumerated in Article II Section 5 of the Portland City Charter,[3] be elected using instant-runoff voting,[4] and, like the rest of municipal government in Portland, be officially non-partisan.[5] Ethan Strimling defeated incumbent mayor Michael F. Brennan and fellow challenger Tom MacMillan.[6]

  1. ^ The U.S. Conference of Mayors: Meet the Mayors Archived 2015-04-13 at the Wayback Machine, The U.S. Conference of Mayors
  2. ^ Maine Voices | Why Portland doesn't have an elected mayor by Abraham Peck, Portland Press Herald, September 27, 2010
  3. ^ Portland City Charter Archived 2011-09-08 at the Wayback Machine SEE: Article II Section 5. Mayor’s powers and duties.
  4. ^ Ranked Choice Voting City of Portland, Maine
  5. ^ Portland, Maine, to get popularly elected mayor Boston Globe, November 4, 2010
  6. ^ Brennan unseated by Strimling after one term as Portland mayor Portland Press Herald