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The city of [[W:Burlington, Vermont|Burlington, Vermont]] held a mayoral election on March 3, 2009. This was the second mayoral election since the city's 2005 approval of [[instant-runoff voting]] (IRV).<ref name="burlington_votes">[http://www.burlingtonvotes.org/faq 4. How did this change to IRV come about?] ''Over 64% of Burlington voters voted in favor of the IRV Charter amendment in March, 2005, and it went into effect on May 12, 2005, when the governor signed the ratification bill, H.505, which had been passed by both the House and Senate.''</ref> A candidate from the [[Vermont Progressive Party]] (Bob Kiss) had won the first election under the system in 2006. In 2009, he was running for reelection.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ci.burlington.vt.us/mayor/|title=Mayor Bob Kiss|website=City of Burlington|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071129081028/http://www.ci.burlington.vt.us/mayor/|archive-date=2007-11-29|access-date=2007-11-16}}</ref>
Unlike in the city's first IRV mayoral election three years prior, however, Kiss was neither the [[Plurality voting|plurality]] winner nor the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_method[Condorcet winner criterion|Condorcet] winner]].<ref name="VermontDaily">{{cite web|url=http://vermontdailybriefing.com/?p%3D1215|title=Point/Counterpoint: Terry Bouricius Attempts To Rip Professor Gierzynski A New One Over Instant Runoff Voting Controversy (Now With All New Gierzynski Update!)|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726125759/http://vermontdailybriefing.com/?p=1215|archive-date=July 26, 2011|access-date=December 30, 2010}}</ref><ref name=":92">{{cite web|url=http://rangevoting.org/Burlington.html|title=Burlington Vermont 2009 IRV mayoral election|website=RangeVoting.org|access-date=2016-04-01}}</ref> This led to a controversy about the use of IRV in mayoral elections,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://vermontdailybriefing.com/?p=1213|title=Voting Paradoxes and Perverse Outcomes: Political Scientist Tony Gierzynski Lays Out A Case Against Instant Runoff Voting|last=Baruth|first=Philip|date=March 12, 2009|publisher=Vermont Daily Briefing|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726125814/http://vermontdailybriefing.com/?p=1213|archive-date=July 26, 2011}}</ref> culminating in a successful 2010 citizen's [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initiative initiative] repealing IRV's use by a vote of 52% to 48%.<ref name="repeal2">{{cite web|url=http://www.wcax.com/story/12074080/burlington-voters-repeal-irv|title=Burlington voters repeal IRV|date=March 2, 2010|publisher=[[WCAX-TV|Wcax.com]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160409132306/http://www.wcax.com/story/12074080/burlington-voters-repeal-irv|archive-date=2016-04-09|access-date=March 28, 2016}}</ref><ref name="rutland_herald">{{cite web|url=http://www.rutlandherald.com/article/20100427/NEWS03/4270339/1004/NEWS03|title=Instant run-off voting experiment ends in Burlington : Rutland Herald Online|date=2010-04-27|website=Rutlandherald.com|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304055602/http://www.rutlandherald.com/article/20100427/NEWS03/4270339/1004/NEWS03#|archive-date=2016-03-04|access-date=2016-04-01}}</ref><ref name="BVT20100302">{{cite web|url=https://www.burlingtonvt.gov/sites/default/files/CT/ElectionResults/20100302/election_summary_report_20100302.pdf|title=Official Results Of 2010 Annual City Election|date=March 2, 2010|work=City of Burlington}}</ref> Ranked-choice voting would thus remain unused in Burlington until 2021, when voters again adopted IRV for all city council elections (but not mayoral ones) by a vote of 64% to 36%.<ref name="Ballotpedia">{{cite web|url=https://ballotpedia.org/Burlington,_Vermont,_Question_4,_Ranked-Choice_Voting_Amendment_(March_2021)|title=Burlington, Vermont, Question 4, Ranked-Choice Voting Amendment (March)|website=Ballotpedia.org|access-date=18 April 2021}}</ref>
== Pairwise results ==
![[File:Democratic Disc.svg|60x60px]]
! Andy Montroll
([[Democratic Party]]<nowiki>) |</nowiki>
| colspan="5" |4 wins and no losses (4-0)
|'''4 Wins ↓'''
|-
![[File:BSicon exlBHF pink.svg|60x60px]]
([[Vermont Progressive Party]])
| colspan="4" | 3 wins, 1 loss (3-1)
|'''1 Loss''' →
↓ '''3 Wins'''
|4064 (Montroll) –
3476 (BKKiss)
|-
![[File:Republican Disc.svg|60x60px]]
([[Republican|Republican Party]])
| colspan="3" |2 wins, 2 losses (2-2)
|'''2 Losses''' →
'''2 Wins''' ↓
|4313 (BKKiss) –
4061 (KWWright)
|4597 (Montroll) –
3664 (KWWright)
|-
!
!Dan Smith (Independent)
| colspan="2" |1 win, 3 losses (1-3)
|'''3 Losses''' →
'''1 Win''' ↓
|3971 (KWWright) –
3793 (DSSmith)
|3944 (BKKiss) –
3576 (DSSmith)
|4570 (Montroll) –
2997 (DSSmith)
|-
![[File:Green Disc.svg|60x60px]]
!James Simpson ([[Green Party]])
([[Green Party]])
|0 wins, 4 losses (0-4)
|'''4 Losses''' →
|5570 (DSSmith) –
721 (JSSimpson)
|5270 (KW) –
1310 (JSSimpson)
|5514 (BK) –
844 (JSSimpson)
| 6262 (Montroll) –
591 (JSSimpson)
|}
This leads to an overall preference ranking of:<ref name=":2" />
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