Measure 117: Oregonians weigh major changes to election system through statewide ranked-choice voting [View all]

Oregonians will vote next month on one of the most significant changes ever proposed to the state’s electoral system.

Voters will decide whether to establish ranked-choice voting statewide. Measure 117 would give Oregonians the option to rank in primary and general elections their preferred candidate running for state and federal offices.

Instead of picking one candidate, voters would rank their choices. If a candidate gets more than 50% of first-place votes, they win. If that doesn’t happen, the candidate with the fewest first-place votes is eliminated and those ballots go to each voter’s second choice. This continues until someone earns more than 50% of the vote.

Voters could also choose one candidate and not rank the others, as usual. The measure would not apply to state legislative elections, a decision the measure writers say they made to simplify the transition to the new voting system.




https://www.opb.org/article/2024/10/03/measure-117-ranked-choice-voting-oregon/