2024 Portland, Oregon municipal elections

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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 (Instant-runoff voting for the mayor's position; single transferable voting for city councillors) 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 retiring.

Declared

CandidateExperienceAnnouncedRef
Durrell Kinsey BeyYouth leadership program workerJune 2, 2023
Website 		[2]
Mingus Mapps (cropped).jpg
Mingus Mapps 		Portland City Commissioner, Position 4
Academic		July 5, 2023
Website
[3]
Rene Gonzalez Portland City Commissioner, Position 3
Attorney		December 6, 2023
Website 		[4]
Carmen Rubio (cropped).jpg
Carmen Rubio 		Portland City Commissioner, Position 1
Policy Advisor to Mayor Tom Potter and Commissioner Nick Fish 		January 9, 2024
Website 		[5]
Keith Wilson CEO, Titan Freight Systems
2020 Portland City Council candidate		 Website [6]
Liv Osthus Stripper, author, musician, and sex work advocateFebruary 27, 2024
Website 		[7]

Withdrew

CandidateExperienceAnnouncedWithdrawn
Marshall RunkelPolitical Strategist, environmental lobbyist
Former Chief of staff to Commissioner Chloe Eudaly 		June 11, 2024 [8] August 19, 2024 [9]

Declined

Endorsements

Carmen Rubio
Statewide officials
Local officials
Labor unions
Political parties
Notable individuals
  • Marshall Runkel, 2024 candidate for Mayor of Portland [9]
Rene Gonzalez
U.S. representatives
Labor unions
Local officials
Newspapers
Keith Wilson
Newspapers
Labor unions
Local officials

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 running for a second term. Rede was re-elected unopposed. [27]

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 single transferable vote. 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.

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