Fargo, North Dakota
The city of Fargo adopted Approval voting in November 2018,[1] with a 64% majority in favor.[2]
A previous city commissioner election in 2015 suffered from six-way vote-splitting, resulting in a candidate winning with only a 22% plurality of the vote.[2]
The Reform Fargo campaign needed 1,349 signatures for the ballot measure, and was able to collect 1,923 valid signatures.[1]
This affects positions in the City of Fargo itself, including its mayor, four city commissioners, and municipal judge.[3] (It is thus being used for both single-winner and multi-winner elections. Each commissioner is elected at-large, representing the entire city.)[4]
The first election to use approval voting will occur in 2020.[5] The current mayor's term expires in June 2022.[6] Two commissioners' terms expire in June 2020, and the others' expire in June 2022.[6] The current municipal judge was elected in 2012 and serves four-year terms.[7]
References
- ↑ a b https://ballotpedia.org/Fargo,_North_Dakota,_Measure_1,_Approval_Voting_Initiative_(November_2018)
- ↑ a b https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2018/11/15/18092206/midterm-elections-vote-fargo-approval-voting-ranked-choice
- ↑ https://reformfargo.org/faq
- ↑ http://fargond.gov/city-government/departments/city-commission/about
- ↑ https://thefulcrum.us/approval-voting-st-louis "will be used in the next municipal election in 2020"
- ↑ a b http://fargond.gov/city-government/departments/auditors/licensing-department/elections
- ↑ http://fargond.gov/city-government/departments/municipal-court/judges-staff