In One Week, New York City Voters Will Use Ranked Choice Voting for the First Time Since 1945

New York city will hold a special election to fill a vacancy in the city council, 24th district, on February 2. Under the terms of a new charter amendment passed in 2019, ranked choice voting will be used. The law requires RCV in special elections and in primaries, but not regularly-scheduled general elections.

The district is in Queens. In New York city special elections, candidates are not nominated by parties. Each candidate may have a partisan label, but the label can’t mimic the name of a qualified party. The 24th district special election has seven candidates. Voters may rank up to five candidates.

New York city used ranked choice voting for its city council seats between 1937 and 1945. During that period, each of the five boroughs elected its city councilmembers at-large, so the type of ranked choice voting used 1937-1945 was a form of proportional representation.

The ballot labels for candidates in the Feb. 2, 2021 election are: Mo for the People, A Better Queens, Your Voice Matters, Community First, United Citizens, Unity, Queens Strong, and Soma for Queens.


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In One Week, New York City Voters Will Use Ranked Choice Voting for the First Time Since 1945 — 2 Comments

  1. Candidate/incumbent replacement lists.

    NOOO more special elections.

    ——
    NOOO extremist primaries.

    ONE election Day.

    EQUAL nom pets.

    PR and AppV – pending Condorcet = RCV done right.

    Olde Stalin type commies got elected in NY City –

    System purged after WW II — early Cold War.

    Olde RED commies – now 2021 average RED Donkeys in NY State.

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