2024 Portland, Oregon municipal elections
The 2024 Portland municipal elections will be held on November 5, 2024, to elect the mayor, city auditor and city council of Portland, Oregon. This will be the first Portland election to use ranked-choice voting after it was instituted by the passage of a 2022 ballot measure.[1]
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Municipal elections in Portland are officially nonpartisan, meaning that party affiliations are not listed on the ballot.
Mayor
Incumbent Democratic mayor Ted Wheeler is eligible to run for re-election to a third four-year term in office.
Declared
- Mingus Mapps, City Commissioner (Party affiliation: Democratic)[2]
- Durrell J. Kinsey Bey, Youth Essentials coordinator[3]
Potential
- Rene Gonzalez, City Commissioner (Party affiliation: Democratic)[4]
- Mike Reese, former Multnomah County Sheriff and Portland Police Chief[2]
- Marshall Runkel, solar energy consultant and former chief of staff to then-City Commissioners Chloe Eudaly and Erik Sten[5]
- Sam Adams, former mayor (Party affiliation: Democratic)[6]
Declined
- Vadim Mozyrsky, administrative law judge and candidate for City Commission in 2022[7]
- Ted Wheeler, incumbent Mayor (Party affiliation: Democratic)[8]
City Auditor
The city auditor will be elected to a two-year term in 2024, while the office will be up for election for a four-year term in 2026. Incumbent auditor Simone Rede is eligible to run for re-election to a second term in office.
City Council
Due to a ballot measure passed by voters in 2022, this will be the first election under Portland's new form of government. Instead of a 5-seat council, the new council will have 12 seats, all up for election. Six members will run for four-year terms; six others will run for two-year terms in 2024 and will be eligible to run for a full four-year term in 2026. All members will be elected from four districts using proportional ranked-choice voting. The members will replace the outgoing five-member Portland City Commission, which was elected using at-large first-past-the-post voting.
All incumbent members of the Commission are eligible to run for re-election to the City Council.
References
- Vaughn, Courtney (4 April 2023). "Five Months Down, 20 to Go: Checking In on Portland's Charter Reform Makeover". Portland Mercury. Retrieved 2 May 2023.
- Kavanaugh, Shane Dixon (5 July 2023). "Portland City Commissioner Mingus Mapps launches bid for mayor in 2024". The Oregonian/OregonLive. Retrieved 2023-07-05.
- "Oregon Secretary Of State". secure.sos.state.or.us. Retrieved 2023-08-14.
- "Mingus Mapps Shuffles Staff as Mayoral Bid Looms". Willamette Week. 2023-08-05. Retrieved 2023-08-09.
- Peel, Sophie (July 26, 2023). "Former City Hall Adviser, Onetime Multnomah County Sheriff Mull Runs for Portland Mayor". Willamette Week. Retrieved July 26, 2023.
- https://www.wweek.com/news/city/2023/08/30/rumored-to-be-weighing-runs-for-portland-city-council-these-big-names-demur/
- Peel, Sophie (28 January 2023). "Former City Council Candidate Vadim Mozyrsky Mulls a Run for Multnomah County District Attorney". Willamette Week. Retrieved 9 February 2023.
Nor will [Mozyrsky] run for mayor, he adds.
- Peel, Sophie (September 13, 2023). "Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler Will Not Seek a Third Term". Willamette Week. Archived from the original on September 13, 2023. Retrieved September 13, 2023.