BusinessmanKeith Wilson was elected mayor, defeating 3 incumbent city commissioners who also ran for the position. CommissionerDan Ryan was the sole incumbent to be elected to the new city council, although former commissionerSteve Novick also won a seat. The remaining ten council seats were won by members who had not previously held office in Portland, includingElana Pirtle-Guiney andTiffany Koyama Lane, who were elected council president and vice president respectively in January 2025. Incumbent auditor Simone Rede was re-elected unopposed.
Municipal elections in Portland are officially nonpartisan, meaning that party affiliations are not listed on the ballot.
The city auditor was elected to a two-year term in 2024, while the office will be up for election for a four-year term in 2026. Incumbent auditorSimone Rede ran for a second term and was re-elected unopposed.[10]
Due to a ballot measure passed by voters in 2022, which reformed the city charter, the 2024 election was the first under the newmayor–council system of government. The former 5-seatcity commission, with members electedat-large, was replaced by a new city council with 12 seats elected from 4 geographic districts. City council members were elected usingsingle transferable vote, with 3 winning candidates per district. All seats were up for election, with six members running for four-year terms and the other six running for two-year terms, which will be eligible to run for a full term in 2026.
All incumbent members of the Commission were eligible to run for re-election to the new City Council. IncumbentDan Ryan was the only member to do so, winning a seat in district 2.[11] Former commissionerSteve Novick, who previously served a term from 2013 to 2017, was elected to the new city council representing district 3.[12] Two races remained too close to call for more than 2 weeks after the election.[11] The final 12-member council included six men and six women, fivepeople of color, and four members who identify asLGBTQ.[13]
