Ranked Choice Voting

Ranked choice voting (RCV) ensures candidates with the broadest possible support win elections. Without RCV, candidates can win elections with far less than 50% support. In a RCV system, voters rank candidates by preference on their ballots. If a candidate wins a majority of first-preference votes, they are declared the winner. If no candidate wins a majority of first-preference votes, the candidate with the fewest first-preference votes is eliminated, and ballots with the eliminated candidate as their first choice are allocated to their second-preference and a new tally is calculated. This process is repeated until a candidate wins an outright majority of the adjusted votes.