
Livestream replay | Election results breakdown: What’s next for Oregon & Southwest Washington
'Think Out Loud' is joined by the 'Politics Now' podcast team on the air and on video livestream to break down PNW election results.
'Think Out Loud' is joined by the 'Politics Now' podcast team on the air and on video livestream to break down PNW election results.
Keith Wilson is Portland's mayor-elect and a new City Council is coming into focus.
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OPB’s goal each election season is to bring you the news and information you need to make informed decisions when your ballot arrives. That includes results on the most high-profile elections in Oregon and Southwest Washington. But it doesn’t include every race. While OPB is headquartered in Portland, we have offices and journalists in Southwest Washington, Central Oregon and Eastern Oregon, so our more extensive election coverage tends to focus on those parts of the region. For complete election returns in Oregon, visit the Oregon Secretary of State’s election results page. For ranked choice voting contents, visit the Multnomah County elections website. If you’re a Washington voter, visit the Washington Secretary of State’s election results page.
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The current election results for Portland Mayor and Portland City Council races on the Multnomah County website reflect a process of elimination by rounds, which is a feature of ranked choice voting. In this system, candidates with the fewest votes in each round are eliminated, and their votes are redistributed to voters' next choices.
It's important to understand that even though candidates may be leading or 'eliminated' in these results, those designations only reflect the ballots counted so far and may change as more are processed. 'Eliminated' simply means a candidate didn’t meet the required ballot threshold in one cycle of ballot counting, and they are not included in subsequent rounds of that cycle. However, eliminated candidates are included in new counts as additional ballots are processed, and votes that include them continue to influence the outcome. Learn more about how ranked choice voting works in Portland.
Keith Wilson is set to become the new mayor of Portland after a second release of preliminary election results from Multnomah County. We'll hear from Wilson to learn more about his vision for the city.
Leah Benson of Multnomah County talks about how ranked choice voting worked in the mayoral and City Council races.
Newly counted ballots show a more definitive lead for the 12 Portland City Council candidates who were in the lead in Tuesday’s initial election results.
Urban areas across the country didn't see the blue wave they expected during this presidential election.
The Multnomah County Board of Commissioners appears likely to gain two political newcomers, according to preliminary election results tallied through Wednesday morning.
Broadman claims victory in his Oregon Senate race, Vander Kamp leads the Deschutes sheriff race, and Bend City Council has two new members.