Municipal elections in Multnomah County, Oregon (2023)
 |
Local ballot measures • School boards • Municipal • Recalls • How to run for office |
 |
2024 →
← 2022
|
| 2023 Multnomah County elections |
|---|
 |
| Election dates |
| Filing deadline: March 7, 2023 (special) & March 16, 2023 (regular) |
| General election: May 16, 2023 |
| Election stats |
| Offices up: County commission (special), community college board, and education service district |
| Total seats up: 10 |
| Election type: Nonpartisan |
| Other municipal elections |
| U.S. municipal elections, 2023 |
Multnomah County, Oregon, held general elections for community college board and education service district as well as a special election for the District 3 seat on the county commission on May 16, 2023. The filing deadline for the special election was March 7, 2023, and the filing deadline for the regular elections was March 16, 2023[1]
Elections
Click on the tabs below to show more information about those topics.
Candidates and results
Offices up for election in 2023:
County commission
General election
Special general election for Multnomah County Commission District 3
Julia Brim-Edwards defeated Ana del Rocio and Albert Kaufman in the special general election for Multnomah County Commission District 3 on May 16, 2023.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Julia Brim-Edwards (Nonpartisan) | 55.6 | 20,389 |
 | Ana del Rocio (Nonpartisan) | 37.3 | 13,686 | |
| Albert Kaufman (Nonpartisan) | 6.4 | 2,346 | ||
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.6 | 223 | ||
| Total votes: 36,644 | |||
 = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Special district offices
Multnomah Education Service District
General election
Multnomah Education Service District general election, 2023 | |
|
|
| Office | Candidates |
| Position 1, Zone 5 |
 Samuel Henry (i)John Masterman |
| Position 3, Zone 2 |
Renee Anderson (i) Walt Karnstein |
| Position 5, Zone 1 |
Denyse Peterson (i) Michael Saperstein |
| Position 6, at-large |
Danny Cage |
| Position 7, Zone 3 |
Katrina Doughty (i) Anna Oppenheimer |
Mt. Hood Community College District
General election
Mt. Hood Community College District general election, 2023 | |
|
|
| Office | Candidates |
| Position 6, at-large |
Diane Noriega (i) |
| Position 7, at-large |
ShaToyia Bentley (i) |
| Zone 3 |
Andrew Speer (i) |
| Zone 5 |
Barry Fox-Quamme Dana Stroud |
Additional elections on the ballot
- See also: Oregon elections, 2023
May 16, 2023
- Beaverton School District, Oregon, elections (2023)
- Centennial School District 28J, Oregon, elections (2023)
- David Douglas School District, Oregon, elections (2023)
- Parkrose School District 3, Oregon, elections (2023)
- Portland Public Schools, Oregon, elections (2023)
- Reynolds School District 7, Oregon, elections (2023)
- Scappoose School District 1J, Oregon, elections (2023)
- City elections in Portland, Oregon (2023)
- Multnomah County, Oregon, Measure 26-238, Capital Gains Tax and Tenant Resource Program Initiative (May 2023)
- Portland, Oregon, Measure A, Portland Children's Levy Renewal Measure (May 2023)
November 7, 2023
What was at stake?
Report a story for this election
Ballotpedia researches issues in local elections across the United States, but information availability is a challenge for us in many areas. Please contact us about the issues that impact your local election. Note that not all submissions may meet Ballotpedia's coverage requirements for inclusion.
Candidate survey
|
|
Ballotpedia invites candidates to participate in its annual survey. |
About the county
Demographics
The following table displays demographic data provided by the United States Census Bureau.
| Demographic Data for Multnomah County, Oregon | ||
|---|---|---|
| Multnomah County | Oregon | |
| Population | 815,428 | 4,237,256 |
| Land area (sq mi) | 431 | 95,996 |
| Race and ethnicity** | ||
| White | 70% | 76.6% |
| Black/African American | 5.5% | 1.9% |
| Asian | 7.5% | 4.5% |
| Native American | 0.9% | 1.1% |
| Pacific Islander | 0.3% | 0.4% |
| Other (single race) | 3.7% | 4.7% |
| Multiple | 11.8% | 10.8% |
| Hispanic/Latino | 13.1% | 14.3% |
| Education | ||
| High school graduation rate | 92.3% | 91.7% |
| College graduation rate | 48.6% | 36.2% |
| Income | ||
| Median household income | $86,247 | $80,426 |
| Persons below poverty level | 12.5% | 11.9% |
| Source: population provided by U.S. Census Bureau, "Decennial Census" (2020). Other figures provided by U.S. Census Bureau, "American Community Survey" (5-year estimates 2018-2023). | ||
| **Note: Percentages for race and ethnicity may add up to more than 100 percent because respondents may report more than one race and the Hispanic/Latino ethnicity may be selected in conjunction with any race. Read more about race and ethnicity in the census here. | ||
See also
| Multnomah County, Oregon | Oregon | Municipal government | Other local coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
 |
 |
 |
 |
External links
Footnotes
| |||||||||
