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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 as opposed to a first-past-the-post voting system with a primary.[1] It was held concurrently with the 2024 Portland, Oregon mayoral election.
Currently, Portland operates under a city commission government with a five-member board, including the mayor.[2] Under the new form of government, approved by voters in 2022, the mayor will no longer be a part of the city council, and instead of five at-large positions, the council will have twelve districted seats. Three councilmembers will each represent one of four districts.[1] The district elections will use a single transferable vote system. Special elections will also no longer be used to fill vacancies in the council.[3] The elections will continue to be officially nonpartisan.
In the previous election, Dan Ryan and Rene Gonzalez were elected to the council, marking a shift in voters away from progressivism towards more moderate democratic politicians.[4] In the 2024 mayoral race, Ted Wheeler chose not to run for re-election. Outgoing commission members Mingus Mapps, Rene Gonzalez, and Carmen Rubio ran for mayor, while Dan Ryan ran for a City Council seat in District 2.
In the mayoral race, Mapps, Gonzalez and Rubio, alongside 15 other candidates, were all defeated by businessman Keith Wilson, while Ryan became the lone member of the previous City Commission to be elected to the new City Council in District 2. Joining him were Candace Avalos, Loretta Smith, and Jamie Dunphy from District 1, Sameer Kanal and Elana Pirtle-Guiney in District 2, Steve Novick, Angelita Morillo, and Tiffany Koyama Lane in District 3, and Olivia Clark, Mitch Green, and Eric Zimmerman in District 4.[5][6] Clark and Novick's victories were called by The Oregonian on election night, but 8 of the remaining 10 seats were not called until Saturday, November 9, while Dunphy and Zimmerman's seats were too close to call until Thursday, November 21—over 2 weeks after Election Day.[6]
- ^ a b "2024 Election". Portland.gov. Archived from the original on August 7, 2023. Retrieved August 7, 2023.
- ^ "Chapter 2 Government". Portland.gov. Retrieved August 7, 2023.
- ^ "Frequently Asked Questions: Recent Changes to Portland Election Code | Portland.gov". Portland.gov. May 4, 2023. Retrieved August 7, 2023.
- ^ Kavanaugh, Shane Dixon (November 9, 2022). "Rene Gonzalez, with law-and-order focus, ousts Portland Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty in contentious City Council race". The Oregonian/OregonLive. Retrieved August 7, 2023.
- ^ Oregonian, Shane Dixon Kavanaugh | The; Oregonian/OregonLive, Betsy Hammond | The; Oregonian/OregonLive, Jamie Goldberg | The (November 9, 2024). "10 candidates win election to Portland City Council, 2 races remain too close to call". oregonlive. Retrieved November 9, 2024.
- ^ a b Oregonian/OregonLive, Shane Dixon Kavanaugh | The (November 21, 2024). "Final 2 Portland City Council candidates win election". oregonlive. Retrieved November 21, 2024.