2010 Oakland mayoral election

2010 Oakland mayoral election

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Candidate Jean Quan Don Perata
First round vote 29,266 40,342
First round percentage 24.47% 33.73%
Final round vote 53,897 51,872
Final round percentage 50.96% 49.04%
 
Candidate Rebecca Kaplan Joe Tuman
First round vote 15,808 14,347
First round percentage 15.52% 12.00%
Final round vote Eliminated Eliminated
Final round percentage Eliminated Eliminated

Mayor before election

Ron Dellums
Democratic

Elected mayor

Jean Quan

The 2010 Oakland mayoral election was held on November 2, 2010, to elect the mayor of Oakland, California, electing Jean Quan to be their mayor. In early August 2010 (prior to the first election using "instant-runoff" voting), incumbent mayor Ron Dellums announced that he would not be seeking reelection to a second term.[1] In November 2010, Oakland also (for the first time) instant-runoff voting to elect its mayor, three city council races and four other local offices, with the elections for the mayor and Oakland council district four requiring multiple rounds of counting.[2] Oakland used instant-runoff voting in the city's remaining elected offices in 2012. IRV was again used in 2014 and 2016, including in the 2014 mayoral election in which incumbent Jean Quan was defeated by Libby Schaaf.[3]

Municipal elections in California are officially non-partisan.

  1. ^ Kuruvila, Matthai (August 5, 2010). "Oakland Mayor Dellums won't run for re-election". The San Francisco Chronicle.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference acgov.org was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Oakland, California municipal elections, 2014". Ballotpedia. Retrieved April 1, 2016.

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