Nevada Top-Five Ranked Choice Voting Initiative

Nevada Ballot Measure - C-01-2021 Question 3

Election: Nov. 8, 2022 (General)

Outcome: Passed

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Elections

Summary


If enacted, this initiative changes Articles 5 and 15 of Nevada's Constitution for Congressional, Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Secretary of State, Treasurer, Controller and State Legislator elections, eliminating partisan primaries and establishing an open top-five primary election and a rank-choice voting general election.

For these offices, all candidates and voters participate in a single primary election regardless of party affiliation or non-affiliation. The top five finishers advance to the general election, and the general election winner is determined by rank-choice voting:

General election voters rank the candidates in order of preference from first to last, if they wish to rank more than their first preference.
As traditionally, a candidate receiving first-choice votes of more than 50% wins.
If no candidate is the first choice of more than 50%, the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated. And each voter who had ranked the now-eliminated candidate as their first choice, has their single vote transferred to their next highest choice candidate.
This tabulation process repeats until the one candidate with more than 50% support is determined as the winner

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