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{{Infobox
| election_name = 2010 Oakland mayoral election
| flag_image= File:Flag of Oakland, California.svg
| type = presidential
| ongoing = no
| previous_election = 2006 Oakland mayoral election
| previous_year = 2006
| election_date = {{Start date|2010|11|02}}
| next_election = 2014 Oakland mayoral election
| next_year = 2014
| 1blank             = First round vote
| 2blank             = First round percentage
| 3blank             = Final round vote
| 4blank             = Final round percentage
| image1 = [[File:Jean Quan at Lake Merritt during her Campaign for Mayor (1).jpg|150x150px]]
| candidate1 = '''[[Jean Quan]]'''
| party1 = Nonpartisan
| 1data1             = 29,266
| 2data1             = 24.47%
| 3data1             = '''53,897'''
| 4data1             = '''50.96%'''
| image2 = [[File:Don Perata (D744C73F-5981-416E-85C6-A7E0A7A334E2) (1).jpg|150x150px]]
| candidate2 = [[Don Perata]]
| 1data2             = '''40,342'''
| 2data2             = '''33.73%'''
| 3data2             = 51,872
| 4data2             = 49.04%
| party2 = Nonpartisan
| image4 = [[File:Rebecca Kaplan in July 2010 (1).jpg|150x150px]]
| candidate4 = [[Rebecca Kaplan]]
| 1data4             = 15,808
| 2data4             = 15.52%
| 3data4             = ''Eliminated''
| 4data4             = ''Eliminated''
| party4 = Nonpartisan
| image5 = [[File:Joe Tuman (15345608842).jpg|150x150px]]
| candidate5 = Joe Tuman
| 1data5             = 	14,347
| 2data5             =  12.00%
| 3data5             = ''Eliminated''
| 4data5             = ''Eliminated''
| party5 = Nonpartisan
| title = Mayor
| before_election = [[Ron Dellums]]
| before_party = Democratic Party (United States)
| after_election = [[Jean Quan]]
| after_party = Democratic Party (United States)
}}

The '''2010 Oakland mayoral election''' was held on November 2, 2010 to elect the [[w:List of mayors of Oakland, California|mayor of Oakland, California]]. It saw the election of [[w:Jean Quan|Jean Quan]].

The election was held using [[instant-runoff voting]]. It was the first Oakland election run using this system.<ref>{{cite web |title=Final Results in Oakland's First RCV Election |url=https://www.fairvote.org/final_results_in_oakland_s_first_rcv_election |publisher=FairVote |access-date=12 December 2019 |date=16 December 2010}}</ref>

== Background ==

The city of [[Oakland, California]], passed (69%) a measure in November 2006 to adopt RCV for 18 city offices.<ref>[http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/11/08/BAG9LM8J2U4.DTL Offbeat and practical issues taken up around Bay Area], Heather Knight, [[San Francisco Chronicle]], Nov. 8, 2006.</ref><ref name="acgov.org">{{cite web|url=http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_14132699 |title=Instant-runoff voting a go for Oakland |publisher=Inside Bay Area |access-date=2016-04-01}}</ref>  In early August 2010, incumbent mayor [[w:Ron Dellums|Ron Dellums]] announced that he would not be seeking reelection to a second term.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/08/04/BACK1EOV67.DTL&tsp=1 | title=Oakland Mayor Dellums won't run for re-election | first=Matthai | last=Kuruvila | date=August 5, 2010 | work=The San Francisco Chronicle}}</ref> In November 2010, Oakland used RCV to elect its mayor, three city council races and four other local offices, with elections for mayor and council district four requiring multiple rounds of counting.<ref name="acgov.org"/> It used RCV in the city's remaining elected offices in 2012. IRV was again used in 2014 and 2016, including in the 2014 mayoral election in which incumbent [[w:Jean Quan|Jean Quan]] was defeated by [[w:Libby Schaaf|Libby Schaaf]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ballotpedia.org/Oakland,_California_municipal_elections,_2014 |title=Oakland, California municipal elections, 2014 |publisher=Ballotpedia |access-date=2016-04-01}}</ref>

===2010 mayoral election===
Oakland's 2010 mayoral election was an open-seat election in which no candidate earned more than 34% of votes in the first round. In the tally, candidates were eliminated sequentially, with three candidates far ahead in first choices. After the count of first choices, Don Perata was in first place, Jean Quan in second place, and Rebecca Kaplan in third place. They remained in that order of votes after all other candidates were eliminated and their votes re-allocated. When Kaplan was then eliminated, Quan picked up 18,864 votes from Kaplan backers while Perata was the next choice of only 6,407 Kaplan backers. As a result, Quan won a final round majority when matched against Perata, which means she was ranked ahead of Perata on a majority of ballots in which one of them received a ranking.(11% of voters did not rank either of them, making their votes exhausted by the time of the final round.)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.acgov.org/rov/rcv/results/rcvresults_2984.htm 
|title=Archived copy
|access-date=November 11, 2011 |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111115182601/http://www.acgov.org/rov/rcv/results/rcvresults_2984.htm |archive-date=November 15, 2011 }}</ref>

====Results in depth====
[[File:Oakland-results-RCV-mayoral-election-2010-AlemedaCounty.png|1070x1070px]]
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! rowspan="2" |Candidate
! colspan="3" |Round 1
! rowspan="2" |…
! colspan="3" |Round 9
! colspan="2" |Round 10
|-
!Votes||%<sup>(*)</sup>||Transfer||Votes||%<sup>(*)</sup>||Transfer||Votes||%<sup>(*)</sup>
|-
|[[w:Don Perata|Don Perata]]||<span style="color:red;">'''40,342'''</span>||<span style="color:red;">'''33.73%'''</span>||+32|| ||<span style="color:red;">'''45,465'''</span> ||<span style="color:red;">'''40.16%'''</span>||+6,407||51,872|| 49.04%
|-
|'''[[w:Jean Quan|Jean Quan]]'''||29,266||24.47%||+33|| ||35,033||30.94%||+18,864||<span style="color:red;">'''53,897'''</span>||<span style="color:red;">'''50.96%'''</span>
|-
|[[w:Rebecca Kaplan|Rebecca Kaplan]]||25,813||21.58%||+18|| ||32,719||28.90%||-32,719|| ||
|-
|Joe Tuman||14,347||12.00%||+10|| || || || || ||
|-
|Marcie Hodge||2,994||2.50%||+5|| || || || || ||
|-
|Terence Candell||2,315||1.94%||+1|| || || || || ||
|-
|Don MacLeay|| 1,630||1.36%||+6|| || || || || ||
|-
|Greg Harland||966 ||0.81%||+2|| || || || || ||
|-
|Larry Lionel ''LL'' Young Jr.||933||0.78%||+6|| || || || || ||
|-
|Arnold Fields||733||0.61%||+5|| || || || || ||
|-
|Write-In||268||0.22%||-268|| || || || || ||
|-
|Continuing Ballots||119,607||100.00%|| || ||113,217||100.00%|| ||105,769||100.00%
|-
|Exhausted Ballots||0|| ||+149|| ||6,284|| ||+7,383||13,667|||
|-
|Overvotes||355|| ||+1|| ||461|| ||+65||526|||
|-
|Undervotes||2,306|| || || ||2,306|| || ||2,306|||
|-
|Total Ballots||122,268|| || || ||122,268|| || ||122,268|||
|}


===2012 elections===
Oakland used RCV for several elections in 2012, including a citywide election for city attorney and for several seats on the city council and school board.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://zennie62blog.com/2012/06/07/oakland-city-council-will-change-oaklanders-get-to-decide-how-dan-cohen-48125/ |title=Oakland City Council Will Change; Oaklanders Get To Decide How – Dan Cohen |website=Zennie62blog.com |date=2012-06-07 |access-date=2016-04-01}}</ref> Several races were decided after multiple rounds, including the District 3 city council race where the winner trailed in first choices.<ref>{{cite web|first=Mollie |last=Hailey  |url=http://www.fairvote.org/fairvote-s-first-take-on-rcv-elections-in-four-bay-area-cities |title=FairVote's First Take on RCV Elections in Four Bay Area Cities |work=FairVote.org  |date=2012-11-12 |access-date=2016-04-01}}</ref> Of the 18 Oakland offices elected by RCV in 2010 and 2012, sixteen of the RCV winners received more votes than the previous winner had won before adoption in the last non-RCV election <ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.fairvote.org/assets/Oakland-RCV-Analysis-2012.pdf 
|title="Oakland (CA) Elections: Comparing Vote Totals for Winners With and Without Ranked Choice Voting"
|author=[[FairVote]] 6930 Carroll Avenue, Suite 610, Takoma Park, MD 20912 www.fairvote.org / (301) 270-4616 
|access-date=2013-01-06 
|archive-url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20130106162800/http://www.fairvote.org/assets/Oakland-RCV-Analysis-2012.pdf |archive-date=2013-01-06 |url-status = bot: unknown}}</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:California]]
[[Category:Mayoral elections in the United States|California]]