Snapshot of RCV in the U.S.
Current Snapshot of RCV Use in the United States
As of April 2021, over 9.2 million voting-age citizens live in U.S. jurisdictions that currently use RCV, or have adopted RCV and plan to implement it for their next round of elections.
Since 2004, when San Francisco first began using RCV to elect municipal offices, there have been 428 RCV elections across 26 jurisdictions, with over 20 million ranked choice ballots cast. The graph below depicts the number of contests in each of the jurisdictions that presently use RCV or which plan to implement RCV in their next elections.
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Of the 30 jurisdictions presently or imminently using RCV to elect offices:
- 23 exclusively use single-winner RCV (instant runoff voting)
- 3 exclusively use proportional RCV (also known as multi-winner RCV or single transferable vote) -- Cambridge MA, Eastpointe MI, and Albany CA.
- 2 use a combination of single- and mulit-winner RCV -- Minneapolis MN and Palm Desert CA
- 2 use a form of multi-winner RCV called preferential block voting -- Payson UT and Vineyard UT.
