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2009 Burlington mayoral election information


2009 Burlington mayoral election

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Turnout8,374 votes (Final Round)
 
Nominee Bob Kiss Kurt Wright
Party Progressive Republican
First round 2,585
28.8%
2,951
32.88%
Final round 4,313
51.5%
4,061
48.5%

 
Nominee Andy Montroll Dan Smith
Party Democratic Independent
First round 2,063
22.98%
1,306
14.55%
Final round eliminated eliminated

Kiss:      30–40%      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%
Wright:      50–60%      60–70%
Montroll:      30–40%      40–50%

Mayor before election

Bob Kiss
Progressive

Elected Mayor

Bob Kiss
Progressive

The 2009 Burlington mayoral election was held in March 2009 for the city of Burlington, Vermont. This was the second mayoral election since the city's 2005 change to instant-runoff voting (IRV), after the 2006 mayoral election.[1] In the 2009 election, incumbent Burlington mayor (Bob Kiss) won reelection as a member of the Vermont Progressive Party,[2] defeating Kurt Wright in the final round with 48% of the vote (51.5% excluding exhausted ballots).

The election created a controversy as a result of several election pathologies, after Kiss was declared winner as a result of 750 votes cast against his candidacy (ranking him last), over the objections of the 54% of Burlington voters who had preferred Andy Montroll.[3]

Unlike the city's first IRV election three years prior, however, Kiss was neither the plurality winner (Republican Kurt Wright) nor the majority vote winner (Democrat Andy Montroll).[4][5] This led to a controversy about the use of IRV in mayoral elections,[3] culminating in a successful 2010 citizen's initiative repealing IRV's use by a vote of 52% to 48%.[6][7][8]

  1. ^ 4. How did this change to IRV come about? Over 64% of Burlington voters voted in favor of the IRV Charter amendment in March 2005, and it went into effect on May 12, 2005, when the governor signed the ratification bill, H.505, which had been passed by both the House and Senate.
  2. ^ "Mayor Bob Kiss". City of Burlington. Archived from the original on November 29, 2007. Retrieved November 16, 2007.
  3. ^ a b Baruth, Philip (March 12, 2009). "Voting Paradoxes and Perverse Outcomes: Political Scientist Tony Gierzynski Lays Out A Case Against Instant Runoff Voting". Vermont Daily Briefing. Archived from the original on July 26, 2011.
  4. ^ "Point/Counterpoint: Terry Bouricius Attempts To Rip Professor Gierzynski A New One Over Instant Runoff Voting Controversy (Now With All New Gierzynski Update!)". Archived from the original on July 26, 2011. Retrieved December 30, 2010.
  5. ^ Stensholt, Eivind (2015). "What Happened in Burlington?". SSRN Electronic Journal. Elsevier BV: 10–12. doi:10.2139/ssrn.2670462. hdl:11250/2356264. ISSN 1556-5068.
  6. ^ "Burlington voters repeal IRV". Wcax.com. March 2, 2010. Archived from the original on April 9, 2016. Retrieved March 28, 2016.
  7. ^ "Instant run-off voting experiment ends in Burlington : Rutland Herald Online". Rutlandherald.com. April 27, 2010. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved April 1, 2016.
  8. ^ "Official Results Of 2010 Annual City Election" (PDF). City of Burlington. March 2, 2010.

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