2024 Portland, Oregon municipal elections

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

Candidate	Experience	Announced	Ref
Durrell Kinsey Bey	Youth leadership program worker	June 2, 2023 Website	^[2]
Mingus Mapps	Portland City Commissioner, Position 4	July 5, 2023 Website	^[3]
Rene Gonzalez	Portland City Commissioner, Position 3 Attorney	December 6, 2023 Website	^[4]
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 advocate	February 27, 2024	^[7]
Marshall Runkel	Campaign manager, environmental lobbyist Chief of staff to Commissioner Chloe Eudaly	June 11, 2024	^[8]

Potential

Nik Blosser, former chief of staff to Governor Kate Brown^[9]

Declined

Vadim Mozyrsky, administrative law judge and candidate for City Commission in 2022 (running for County Commission)^[10]
Dan Ryan, city commissioner (Democratic) (running for City Council)^[11]
Ted Wheeler, incumbent Mayor (Democratic)^[12]
Sam Adams, former mayor (Democratic) (running for Multnomah County Commission)^[13]^[14]

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.