Snapshot of RCV in the U.S.
Current Snapshot of RCV Use in the United States
As of August 2020, approximately 10 million voting-age adults 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 381 RCV elections across 18 jurisdictions. 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 23 jurisdictions presently or imminently using RCV to elect offices:
- 17 exclusively use single-winner RCV (instant runoff voting)
- 2 exclusively use multi-winner RCV (single transferable vote) -- Cambridge MA and Eastpointe MI.
- 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.
