At least 10 candidates have won the elections to the Portland City Hall based on almost final results published on Saturday.

He winners They include two who have previously served on the Portland City Council and two who were endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America. At least six of the 19 candidates recommended by the Portland Metropolitan Chamber will win seats. At least six backed by the North West Labor Council will also take up their positions.

Six of the 10 known winners so far are women and five are people of color. They are between 28 and 70 years old. Three are tenants.

Five candidates from the most left-wing contingent of the 98 candidates won seats. With two races still too close to call, it is unclear whether four of five candidates from the pro-business and pro-law and order camp will take office in January.

Two candidates, former Portland Commissioner Steve Novick in District 3 and former TriMet official Olivia Clark in District 4, won their elections on election nightas stated by The Oregonian/OregonLive. Clark is the only candidate to garner more than 25% of first-choice votes to secure a victory in the first round of vote counting.

The other eight winners reclaimed their spots Saturday afternoon after new recounts showed no viable path for their opponents to overtake them, according to an analysis by The Oregonian/OregonLive.

In East Portland’s District 1, environmental justice advocate Candace Avalos and former Multnomah County Commissioner Loretta Smith will join the City Council in January.

In North and Northeast Portland’s District 2, Sameer Kanal, the city’s former policy director, earned the most votes in the preliminary rounds among the 22 candidates in the race, followed by policy strategist and union leader long-serving Elana Pirtle-Guiney and current City Commissioner Dan Ryan.

In Southeast Portland’s District 3, Portland Public Schools teacher Tiffany Koyama Lane and rising progressive stalwart Angelita Morillo will join Novick on the City Council.

In District 4, centered on the city’s west side, Clark will be joined by energy economist Mitch Green. The third District 4 seat will go to top Multnomah County official Eric Zimmerman or Portland Bike Police Officer Eli Arnold in a race Zimmerman leads by 820 voters but remains too close to call .

The other race not determined as of Saturday is for the third seat representing District 1. Former City Council staffer Jamie Dunphy currently leads that race by just 790 votes over small business owner and public safety advocate , Terrance Hayes.

Green, Kanal and Koyama Lane are all members of the Democratic Socialists of America. The group’s Portland chapter formally endorsed Green and Koyama Lane.

More than 15,000 votes could still be counted in the four precincts, county election officials said. Most of them, about 11,000, come from ballots that were missing signatures or did not match voter registration files.

Supporters of candidates still close to winning a seat could urge voters with signatures in question to visit the elections office to clear up that uncertainty and have their votes counted. The Portland Chamber and the Portland Police Union, for example, endorsed Hayes and not Dunphy.

In 2022, Portland voters approved the change to a 12-member City Council whose members will earn an annual salary of $133,000.

Under the first-in-the-nation election system, voters were allowed to choose up to six council candidates in order of preference, and candidates needed only 25% of first, second, and potentially even third, fourth, and fifth. choice of votes to win.

The new City Council will be tasked with formulating policies and providing services to constituents. The body will have significant power within the city’s new form of government, in part because Portland’s next mayor will not have veto power.

Voters overwhelmingly approved a move to a new form of government, including an expanded City Council, and a new electoral method amid growing dissatisfaction with the way Oregon’s most populous city and those elected to run it operate.

Its proponents claim that by electing multiple candidates in a single district, thereby lowering the threshold for each of them to win, ranked-choice voting with multiple winners would better capture diverse political preferences, increase the number of people who vote, and produce winners who satisfy more of the electorate.

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— Betsy Hammond oversees coverage of state politics and government, as well as education, Portland City Council, Multnomah County and homelessness. Contact her at [email protected] or follow her at @OregonPolEds

— Jaime Goldberg oversees The Oregonian/OregonLive’s political, education and homelessness coverage. She can be contacted at [email protected] or 503-221-8228. You can find it in X in @jamiebgoldberg

— Shane Dixon Kavanaugh covers Portland city government and politics, focusing on accountability and watchdog reporting. Contact him at 503-294-7632. Email in [email protected]. Stay on X @shanedkavanaugh

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