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The 2012 Portland City Commission elections were held on May 15, 2012, and November 6, 2012. Steve Novick won position 4 outright by receiving over 50% of the vote and avoided a runoff. Amanda Fritz won election to position 1 during the runoff election. [1]
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Incumbent Amanda Fritz barely won the primary election with 45.40%. Because she did not receive over 50% of the votes, she proceeded to a runoff election with runner-up Mary Nolan. Fritz wont the runoff with 59.23% to Nolan's 39.77% [2] [3]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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| Nonpartisan | Amanda Fritz | 54,323 | 45.40% | |
| Nonpartisan | Mary Nolan | 52,823 | 44.15% | |
| Nonpartisan | Bruce Altizer | 5,511 | 4.61% | |
| Nonpartisan | Teressa L. Raiford | 3,840 | 3.21% | |
| Nonpartisan | David G. Gwyther | 2,725 | 2.28% | |
| Write-in | 427 | 0.36% | ||
| Total votes | 119,649 | 100% | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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| Nonpartisan | Amanda Fritz | 139,997 | 59.23% | |
| Nonpartisan | Mary Nolan | 93,994 | 39.77% | |
| write-ins | 2,366 | 1% | ||
| Total votes | 236,357 | 100% | ||
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Attorney and former (unsuccessful) 2008 US Senate candidate Steve Novick won election outright with 75.59% of the vote, avoiding a runoff by receiving over 50% of the vote in the primaries. [2]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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| Nonpartisan | Steve Novick | 85,536 | 75.59% | |
| Nonpartisan | Scott McAlpine | 8,951 | 7.82% | |
| Nonpartisan | Jeri Williams | 5,608 | 4.96% | |
| Nonpartisan | Leah Marie Dumas | 4,879 | 4.31% | |
| Nonpartisan | Mark White | 4,255 | 3.76% | |
| Nonpartisan | Brian Sidney Parrott | 2,341 | 2.07% | |
| Nonpartisan | James Rowell | 1,180 | 1.04% | |
| Write-in | 501 | 0.44% | ||
| Total votes | 113,151 | 100 | ||
Multnomah County, Oregon, the city of Portland, Oregon, and Metro held elections on May 16 and November 7, 2006.
The 2008 United States Senate election in Oregon was held on November 4, 2008. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Gordon H. Smith sought reelection to a third term. Smith was the only Republican Senator from the West Coast and the only Republican holding statewide office in Oregon. He was opposed by Democrat Jeff Merkley, the Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives, and David Brownlow of the Constitution Party of Oregon. Merkley won by a narrow margin, with Smith not conceding until two days after the election. Merkley became the first Democrat to win this seat since 1960, and since Smith was the only Republican holding statewide office in Oregon at the time, this was the first time since 1860 that no Republicans won or held statewide office in Oregon. Merkley's inauguration marked the first time since 1967 that Democrats held both of Oregon's United States Senate seats.
The government of Portland, Oregon is based on a city commission government system. Elected officials include the mayor, commissioners, and a city auditor. The mayor and commissioners are responsible for legislative policy and oversee the various bureaus that oversee the day-to-day operation of the city. Portland began using a commission form of government in 1913 following a public vote on May 3 of that year. Each elected official serves a four-year term, without term limits. Each city council member is elected at-large.
Steven Novick is an American politician, attorney, and activist from the U.S. state of Oregon. In 2008, he was a candidate for U.S. Senate for the seat then held by Republican Gordon Smith, but narrowly lost the primary to Jeff Merkley. He served as a Portland City Commissioner from 2013 to 2017. On the city council, he was in charge of the city's transportation department, among other responsibilities.
Mary Therese Nolan is a Democratic politician from the U.S. state of Oregon. She represented District 36 in the Oregon House of Representatives from 2001 to 2013, and served as the majority leader from 2008 to 2010. She ran unsuccessfully for the Portland City Council in 2012. She came back into office in 2020, when she was elected as one of the councilors for the Portland-area regional government, Metro.
Amanda Fritz is a British-American politician and retired psychiatric nurse from the U.S. state of Oregon. Before being elected to Portland's City Council in 2008, Fritz was a neighborhood activist and seven-year member of the Portland Planning Commission. She was also the first candidate to win public financing under Portland's Clean Elections system in 2006, though she lost to incumbent Dan Saltzman in the first round of that year's election.
On Tuesday, November 6, 2012, an election was held in Portland, Oregon, to elect the mayor. Charlie Hales was elected, defeating Jefferson Smith. Incumbent mayor Sam Adams did not seek a second term.
Jim Francesconi is an American lawyer and politician who served on the Portland, Oregon City Council from 1997 until 2004. In 2004 he raised $1.3 million in his bid for mayor of Portland, more than doubling the previous fund-raising record for the position of $600,000, set by Earl Blumenauer in 1992. Francesconi lost the election to Tom Potter, a former police chief who placed strict limits on contributions to his own campaign, and who ultimately spent less than a tenth of what Francesconi did on the campaign.
The 2020 Portland City Commission elections were held on May 19, 2020 and November 3, 2020 with a special election on August 11, 2020.
The 2022 Portland City Commission elections were held on May 17, 2022, and November 8, 2022.
Sharon Meieran is an American physician, lawyer, and politician. She has served as a county commissioner for Multnomah County, Oregon since January 3, 2017, representing district 1.
The 2020 Portland City Commission elections were held on May 17, 2016, and November 8, 2016.
The 2018 Portland City Commission elections were held on May 15, 2018, and November 6, 2018.
The 2014 Portland City Commission elections were held on May 20, 2014. Both candidates won the election with over 50% of the vote avoiding a general election runoff.
The 2010 Portland City Commission elections were held on May 18, 2010, to elect two positions on the Portland, Oregon City Council.
The 2008 Portland City Commission elections were held on May 20, 2008, and November 4, 2008, to elect three positions on the Portland, Oregon City Council.
The 2006 Portland City Council elections were held on May 16, 2006, to elect two positions on the Portland, Oregon City Council.
The 1996 Portland City Commission elections were held on May 21, 1996, and November 5, 1996, to elect three positions on the Portland, Oregon City Council.
The 2002 Portland City Commission elections were held on May 21, 2002, and November 5, 2002, to elect two positions on the Portland, Oregon City Council, with a special election to elect an additional position held on September 17, 2002 and November 5, 2002.
The 2020 Multnomah County District Attorney election was held on May 19, 2020, concurrent with the 2020 statewide general elections, to elect the District Attorney of Multnomah County, Oregon, which includes the major city of Portland.
