Ranked Choice Voting in Minneapolis

Ranked Choice Voting

Team Consultants: Janette Davis

Amanda Diehl Julia Eagles

Katrina Mosser

More dialogue during campaigning

Decreased attacks and negativity

Berkeley, San Francisco, Oakland & San Leandro CA

Minneapolis & Saint Paul, MN

South Carolina

Takoma Park, MD

Louisiana

Memphis, TN

Arkansas

Springfield, IL

Portland, ME

Burlington, VT

Aspen & Telluride, CO

Santa Fe, NM

Pierce County, WA

Hendersonville, NC

Ranked Choice Voting, also known as Instant Runoff Voting, is used in 15 cities, parties and countries around the world!

• Australia• Bosnia• Bougainville• Papua New Guinea• The Republic of Ireland• London• Wellington, New Zealand

• Malta

• Sri Lanka• Conservative Party in Canada • Progressive Conservative

Party of Alberta, Canada • Liberal Party of New Zealand • Hong Kong's Legislative

Council

City of Minneapolis 2013 Municipal Election• Mayor• City Council• Park Board• Board of Estimate and

Taxation

Campaign finance disclosure forms only kept for 5 years

35 Mayoral candidates!

Stephanie Woodru

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Cam Winton

Betsy Hodges

Bob Fine

Don Samuels

Mark Andrew

Jackie Cherry

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Expense per first round vote

13 Council Races

Conclusions Baseline Data Inconclusive on spending

Recommendations Keep records! Do not be

constrained by data Qualitative analysis Develop continuing

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