On November 5, 2019, the voters of Scranton, Pennsylvania, elected an independent candidate to be Mayor. She is Paige Cognetti. She defeated her major party opponents by polling 36% of the vote. In order to win, she had to contend with the straight-ticket device, which was used by thousands of voters in Scranton. This year’s election is the last time Pennsylvania is using it. See this story, which has a link to the election returns, including the number of voters who used the straight-ticket device. Thanks to Michael Thompson for the link.
One more minority rule exec.
NONPARTISAN AppV for execs/judics – pending Condorcet.
what did the Independent candidate campaign on?
Mike
She is a Democrat, Obama supporter, who had some sort of falling out with local Democrats.