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2024 Portland, Oregon, mayoral election

The 2024 Portland mayoral election was held on November 5, 2024, to elect the mayor of Portland, Oregon. Businessman Keith Wilson was elected, defeating three city council members and 15 other candidates.

This was the first Portland mayoral election to use ranked-choice voting (Instant-runoff voting) after it was instituted by the passage of a 2022 ballot measure. Municipal elections in Portland are officially nonpartisan, meaning that party affiliations are not listed on the ballot.

Background

On June 12, 2023, Durrell Kinsey Bey became the first candidate to announce his run for mayor. He was followed by City Commissioner Mingus Mapps on July 3, 2023.

On September 13, 2023, incumbent Democratic mayor Ted Wheeler announced that he would not be seeking a third term. In December and January respectively, City Commissioners Rene Gonzalez and Carmen Rubio announced their candidacies as well.

Homelessness and public safety were considered the two most important issues of this election. This election, as well as the City Council election, was a major indication of political shifts in Portland. The previous city council elections saw a shift away from progressives towards slightly more moderate elected officials.

Candidates

Declared

  • Saadiq Ali
  • Shei'Meka As-Salaam, educator
  • James Atkinson IV, inventor
  • Durrell Kinsey Bey, youth leadership program worker
  • Rene Gonzalez, city commissioner
  • Michael Hayes, retired
  • Yao Jun He
  • Josh Leake, loan officer and small business owner
  • James Macdonald
  • Mingus Mapps, city commissioner
  • Sharon Nasset, service worker
  • Michael Necula, bartender
  • Alexander Landry Neely, winemaker and small business owner
  • Michael O'Callaghan, activist
  • Liv Osthus, stripper and author
  • Carmen Rubio, city commissioner
  • Martin Ward
  • Keith Wilson, CEO of Titan Freight Systems
  • Dustin Witherspoon, maintenance supervisor
  • James Zehren, attorney and writer (write-in)

Withdrew

  • Marshall Runkel, political strategist

Declined

  • Sam Adams, former mayor (ran for Multnomah County Commission)
  • Vadim Mozyrsky, administrative law judge and candidate for City Commission in 2022 (ran for Multnomah County Commission)
  • Dan Ryan, city commissioner (ran for City Council)
  • Ted Wheeler, incumbent mayor

Endorsements

Polling

Debates

Results

See also

Notes

References