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]

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

Potential

Declined

  • Vadim Mozyrsky, administrative law judge and candidate for City Commission in 2022[9]
  • Dan Ryan, city commissioner (Democratic)[10]
  • Ted Wheeler, incumbent Mayor (Democratic)[11]

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

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ Zielinski, Alex (September 13, 2023). "Portland mayor Ted Wheeler will not seek third term". Oregon Public Broadcasting. Retrieved December 4, 2023.
  3. ↑ Kavanaugh, Shane Dixon (5 July 2023). "Portland City Commissioner Mingus Mapps launches bid for mayor in 2024". The Oregonian/OregonLive. Retrieved 2023-07-05.
  4. ↑ Kavanaugh, Shane (December 6, 2023). "Portland City Commissioner Rene Gonzalez launches run for mayor: 'I think a centrist can win'". The Oregonian. Retrieved December 6, 2023.
  5. ↑ Edge, Sami (January 9, 2024). "City Commissioner Carmen Rubio joins race for Portland mayor". The Oregonian. Retrieved January 9, 2024.
  6. ↑ Jaquiss, Nigel (December 1, 2023). "Nik Blosser Departing Senior Post at Portland General Electric". Willamette Week. Retrieved December 1, 2023.
  7. ↑ Peel, Sophie (July 26, 2023). "Former City Hall Adviser, Onetime Multnomah County Sheriff Mull Runs for Portland Mayor". Willamette Week. Retrieved July 26, 2023.
  8. ↑ Peel, Sophie (30 August 2023). "Rumored to Be Weighing Runs for Portland City Council, These Big Names Demur". Willamette Week. Retrieved 3 November 2023. Sam Adams, former Portland mayor and onetime top aide to Mayor Ted Wheeler: Adams says he's recently been asked to run for mayor and for City Council, but hasn't decided yet. "It's not a no, it's not a yes," he adds.
  9. ↑ 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.
  10. ↑ Foran, Andrew (December 4, 2023). "Portland city commissioner Dan Ryan announces he won't run for mayor". KOIN. Portland, Oregon. Retrieved December 4, 2023.
  11. ↑ 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.
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