2024 Portland Election Winners

Keith Wilson

Keith Wilson, President of the regional transportation company Titan Freight Systems and the founder of the nonprofit Shelter Portland, won the mayoral race with 59% of the vote. His closest competitor, City Commissioner Carmen Rubio, secured 41%.

Keith Wilson’s campaign focused on addressing homelessness, enhancing public safety, reducing the city’s environmental impact, and improving local government efficiency. His platform proposed reopening Portland’s overnight shelters and adding temporary daytime shelters to increase available shelter beds, a necessary step for enforcing Portland’s public camping ban, which requires shelter availability for policy enforcement.

Key Campaign Promise: Ending unsheltered homelessness within his first year as mayor.

KATU: Mayor-elect Keith Wilson talks about his win and his vision for Portland

Candace Avalos

Candace Avalos is the Executive Director of the environmental nonprofit Verde.Her resume includes serving as a former charter commissioner who helped write Portland’s new city charter, and on the city’s Citizen Review Committee, a police oversight board.

Her campaign focused on public and community safety, housing and homelessness, transportation and infrastructure, and climate issues.

Key Campaign Promise: Avalos has signed the Save Portland Street Response (PSR) pledge, committing to vote for its expansion to operate citywide and provide 24/7 coverage as an unarmed first response team.

Jamie Dunphy

Jamie Dunphy is a Government Relations Director at the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network. He i a former staffer for both Senator Jeff Merkley and former City Commissioner Nick Fish.

Dunphy’s campaign highlighted livability, working families, and support for the music and arts industry.

Key Campaign Promise: Reforming Portland’s noise code to eliminate the “plainly audible” standard and maintain only a decibel-based standard for different zones and times of day. Dunphy has also signed the Renter’s Bill of Rights pledge to expand protections for renters.

Sameer Kanal

Sameer Kanal is a former a Policy Manager for the City of Portland Public Safety Service Area. As a city staffer, he was also a Project Manager for the Police Accountability Commission, a voter-approved police oversight body.

Kanal’s platform highlighted community engagement, public safety, economic justice, and sustainability.

Key Campaign Promise: Kanal has signed pledges to support a Renter’s Bill of Rights, expand Portland Street Response, and introduce a Gaza ceasefire resolution on the council.

Elana Pirtle-Guiney

Elana Pirtle-Guiney is a policy development consultant, whose resume includes positions with Former Governor Kate Brown and Legislative and Communications Director for the labor organization AFL-CIO.

Pirtle-Guiney’s campaign centered on livability, workforce development, and affordability. 

Key Campaign Promise: While Pirtle-Guiney has not signed the Portland Street Response pledge, she has promised to advocate for expanding the program to operate citywide and 24-7.

Dan Ryan

City Commissioner Dan Ryan currently serves on Portland’s City Council, where he most recently oversaw the Office of Community and Civic Life, the Office of Equity and Human Rights, the Bureau of Portland Parks & Recreation, and the Portland Children’s Levy.

Ryan’s platform focused on homelessness and housing, public safety, streamlining the permitting process, investing in parks and streets, and supporting education, arts, and entertainment.

Key Campaign Promise: Increasing Portland’s number of sworn police officers.

Tiffany Koyama Lane

Tiffany Koyama Lane is a public school teacher and a union organizer for the Portland Association of Teachers. She also played a leadership role as an organizer for the 2020 Preschool for All campaign.

Koyama Lane’s platform centered on affordable housing, eviction protection, public education, and supportive services.

Key Campaign Promise: Koyama Lane has signed pledges to support a Renter’s Bill of Rights, expand Portland Street Response, and introduce a Gaza ceasefire resolution on the council.

Angelita Morillo

Angelita Morillo is a policy advocate for the nonprofit Partners for a Hunger-Free Oregon. With a background as a staffer to former City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty, she is also a social media influencer who runs a popular TikTok channel focusing on local politics.

Morillo’s campaign highlighted public safety, housing and homelessness, sanitation, and transportation.

Key Campaign Promise: Establishing a Sanitation Bureau to service Portland. She has also signed pledges to establish a Renter’s Bill of Rights, introduce a Gaza ceasefire resolution, and expand Portland Street Response.

Steve Novick

Steve Novick is a Special Assistant Attorney General in the Oregon Justice Department, focusing on environmental law. Novick served one term as a Portland City Commissioner from 2013 to 2017.

His campaign focused on affordable housing, zoning reform, public safety, and cutting carbon emissions.

Key Campaign Promise: Transition the City of Portland to smart gun technology to prevent youth suicides and reduce gun crimes.

Olivia Clark

Olivia Clark is a former Executive Director of Public Affairs for TriMet. Her resume also includes positions as Intergovernmental Relations Director for Governor John Kitzhaber and Legislative Director of the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality.

Clark’s platform centered on public safety, homelessness, housing, and supportive services.

Key Campaign Promise: Ending street camping and public drug use.

Mitch Green

Green is an energy economist focusing on the regional electric power grid. An army vet, his resume includes teaching economics at Portland State University and as an instructor at Portland Community College.

Green’s campaign focused on environmental stewardship, affordable housing, and working families.

Key Campaign Promise: Establishing a social housing program, where the city would own and manage housing with rents tied to 30% of tenants’ income. Green has also signed pledges to support a Renter’s Bill of Rights, a Gaza ceasefire resolution, expanding Portland Street Response, and supporting Green New Deal policies.

Eric Zimmerman

Eric Zimmerman is the Chief of Staff to County Commissioner Julia Brim-Edwards. Also an Army Vet, Zimmerman previously served as Central City Senior Advisor to Mayor Ted Wheeler.

His platform highlighted include public safety, homelessness, housing, and livability.

Key Campaign Promise: Expanding Temporary Alternative Shelter Sites to provide immediate shelter solutions and seeks to ban RV camping/parking on Portland neighborhood streets.

Simone Rede

Simone Rede, a Certified Internal Auditor and a Certified Government Auditing Professional, currently holds the position of Portland City Auditor and ran unoppsed for her position.

She took office in 2023.