2024 City Election for Mayor & Council

2024 Election Preliminary Results Now Available on the City Election Webpage.

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Ranked Choice Voting & What's on the Ballot?

Ranked Choice Voting

What is ranked choice voting?

Takoma Park elections use ranked choice voting. You can rank candidates in order of preference: first choice, second choice, and so on. Ranking additional candidates will not affect your first choice. Your other choices are only considered if your first choice is eliminated. How votes are counted in ranked choice voting:

• All first-choice votes are counted. If a candidate gets more than 50% of the votes, they win.
• If not, the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted for their next choice.
• If there is still no candidate with a majority, the process repeats until a candidate has more than 50% of the remaining votes and is declared the winner.

Mark Your Ballot

A properly completed ballot ranks candidates while marking only one choice per column.

Voters may indicate as many, or as few choices as they wish.

A ballot may be invalid should the voter ‘s intentions be unclear to the judges counting the ballots, such as if the voter marks multiple candidates as their first choice. In this case no vote is cast for a first or second choice.

A ballot may, however, be partially valid. In this case the voter ‘s first choice is clear. However, no valid choices are indicated if JOHN SMITH is eliminated.

What’s on the November 8, 2022 Ballot?

√ Vote for mayor

√ Vote for a city councilmember to represent your ward

THIS INFORMATION WILL APPEAR ON YOUR BALLOT

 

Instructions:

Vote for candidates by filling in the oval for your first choice, your second choice, and so on. You may rank only a first choice. You are not required to vote in both races on the ballot.

To vote for a person whose name is not on the ballot, print the name in the space provided and fill in the oval that shows your ranking of the write-in candidate.

  • Do not make stray marks.
  • DO NOT SIGN YOUR BALLOT.

 

 

 

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Ranked Choice Voting & What’s on the Ballot? Sections