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Park City Council opts for ranked choice voting in 2025 election
On Thursday the Park City Council unanimously gave direction to move forward with ranked choice voting in the 2025 municipal election.
Parkites will elect a mayor and two city council members to four-year terms this November.
Ranked choice voting was first implemented at Harvard in the 1870s, according to a Utah Valley University study. The first use of the voting method in U.S. public elections was in 1915 by the Ashtabula City Council in Ohio.
It’s grown in popularity in recent years amid criticisms of conventional plurality voting
https://www.kpcw.org/park-city/2025-03-14/park-city-council-opts-for-ranked-choice-voting-in-2025-election