Ranked choice voting has been shown to increase the number of women and people of color running in and winning elections—and the results of the 2019 elections prove that it works.
women won eight of the 15 seats elected by RCV
this week. Candidates run citywide for nine city council seats and six school committee seats, with the fair representation form of RCV. In council races, each seat is elected with support from about 10 percent of voters, and it takes just over 14 percent of the vote to win a school committee seats. In a city council race with 22 candidates, Patty Nolan and Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler will join seven incumbent councillors who won re-election. With the addition of Nolan to the city council, women now hold four seats. Women also wonon the school committee.
St. Louis Park this year held its first RCV election. Only one race had three candidates, triggering an instant runoff. Women earned a fourth seat on the
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