Election Day 2025: ranked choice voting in action
- scottyv6
- Nov 4
- 1 min read
| Avram Reisman, Bryan Huang | FairVote |
This Election Day, over 430,000 voters across 14 cities and counties used ranked choice voting (RCV) in their elections. Over 1.6 million voters have used RCV in 2025.
Several of this year’s RCV mayoral races had large and competitive fields: Minneapolis, MN had 15 candidates; St. Paul, MN had five; and Santa Fe, NM had eight. Fort Collins, CO – which used RCV for the first time this year – had seven mayoral candidates.
RCV results within 24 hours
Following best practices, most cities that used RCV this November released preliminary RCV results within 24 hours of polls closing. That includes Fort Collins, which released RCV results on election night in its first-ever use of RCV. It also includes St. Paul, which released RCV results on election night for the first time. These cities are building trust with their voters by avoiding unnecessary delays in sharing preliminary counts.
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