Eastpointe, Michigan held its city council election this November using ranked choice voting. The election occurred because the council seat’s previous holder, Monique Owens, resigned to become mayor last year.

On Tuesday, November 17, FairVote held a webinar to discuss Maine’s historic first use of RCV in a presidential general election. It was part of our fall series on The Future of American American Elections.

While many cities and states around the country have been debating and voting on reforming their elections with ranked choice voting, a different type of RCV movement has quietly been growing in popularity all across the United States.

On November 3, 2020, at least 1.4 million voters participated in ranked choice voting elections in nine jurisdictions.

Plurality victories are an all too common feature of American political life. It isn’t rare to see candidates prevail in a crowded field even though 70 or 80 percent of voters voted for someone else.

Unrig: How to Fix Our Broken Democracy examines how plurality elections drive polarization and fail to adequately represent voters, and demonstrates how ranked choice voting can improve representation and ease partisan tensions.

Proportional ranked choice voting is a rising star among local municipalities in the U.S.

All five cities that held referendums to adopt ranked choice voting yesterday passed them by wide margins, even as RCV was defeated in a Massachusetts vote. The result in Alaska remains unclear as most votes have not yet been counted.

In the midst of a presidential election tabulation that could take days, with many states showing apparently close margins, it’s worth examining the impact of election recounts.

On Tuesday, October 27, FairVote hosted a webinar called The Conservative Argument for RCV as part of our Fall series on The Future of American American Elections.