https://www.npr.org/2024/11/08/nx-s1-5183210/nonpartisan-primary-ranked-choice-voting-results
https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/results/2024/11/05/ranked-choice-voting-ballot-measures/
Alaska: had ranked-choice voting in place for certain statewide elections, but it looks like they’ve voted to get rid of it and go back to using the first-past-the-post system
Arizona: had a ballot question that would have created non-partisan open primaries, but voted it down
Colorado: had a ballot question that would have created top-four non-partisan open primaries AND ranked-choice voting in general elections, but voted it down
Idaho: same thing as Colorado, voted it down
Missouri: had a ballot question that would do two things: prohibit ranked-choice voting, and require voters to be US citizens. It passed.
Montana: had a ballot question that would have created top-four non-partisan open primaries, as well as a separate ballot question that would have “required a majority vote to win election”. Both were voted down.
Nevada: same thing as Colorado and Idaho, voted it down
Oregon: had a ballot question that would have created ranked-choice voting, but voted it down
South Dakota: had a ballot question that would have created a “top-two” primary election system, voted it down.
The only places where ranked-choice voting was adopted this year were at the city level, in Washington DC and a few mid-sized cities in the Midwest.
This is depressing. Ranked-choice voting is something that I’ve supported for, like, almost my entire adult life (EDIT: although I’ve also learned about score voting recently and now I think that would be better), but it doesn’t look like other Americans want it very much. Why did this happen? Am I out of touch?
It was, total poison pill to my vote and to the possible benefits of RCV. When I was researching my ballot, I read that the “for” campaign was funded to the tune of millions by some fucking private healthcare CEO, who wanted it to reduce “polarization” in politics.