The 2024 Portland mayoral election will be held on November 5, 2024, to elect the mayor of Portland, Oregon. On September 13, 2023, incumbent Democratic mayor Ted Wheeler announced that he would not be seeking a third term. This will be the first Portland mayoral election to use ranked-choice voting after it was instituted by the passage of a 2022 ballot measure.
Municipal elections in Portland are officially nonpartisan, meaning that party affiliations are not listed on the ballot.
Background
On July 3, 2023, City Commissioner Mingus Mapps became the first elected official to announce his candidacy.
Homelessness and public safety are expected to be among the two most important issues of this election. This election, as well as the City Council election, will be a major indication of political shifts in Portland. The previous mayoral and city council elections saw a shift away from progressives towards slightly more moderate elected officials.
Candidates
Declared
Mingus Mapps, City Commissioner (Party affiliation: Democratic) Durrell J. Kinsey Bey, Youth Essentials coordinator
Potential
Rene Gonzalez, City Commissioner (Party affiliation: Democratic) Mike Reese, former Multnomah County Sheriff and Portland Police Chief Marshall Runkel, solar energy consultant and former chief of staff to then-City Commissioners Chloe Eudaly and Erik Sten Sam Adams, former mayor (Party affiliation: Democratic)
Declined
Vadim Mozyrsky, administrative law judge and candidate for City Commission in 2022 Ted Wheeler, incumbent Mayor (Party affiliation: Democratic)
