Chapter-wide Campaigns
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What is RCV?
Ranked-choice voting (RCV) is a system that eliminates first-past-the-post, winner-take-all style elections. Instead, voters would rank candidates based on preference. Ballots for the least popular candidates are then redirected towards their second choice. This continues until one candidate reaches the established win threshold, commonly set at a 50%+1 majority.
Ranked-choice voting leads to greater voter satisfaction, turnout, and more democratic outcomes. It reduces incumbency bias, inequities in race and gender of representatives, and voting for the "lesser of two evils". This has been implemented across the country to great success in places like New York City where DSA member Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor under an RCV system.
In coalition with RCV in the LBC, DSA Long Beach is working to bring ranked-choice voting to Long Beach for municipal elections via the local ballot initiative process.
Sign up to help the campaign and fill out the petition here.
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Building a Socialist Electoral Strategy in LB
Our 2025 Local Convention passed a resolution to help further develop our electoral strategy for the 2026 cycle. If you're interested in getting involved in identifying candidates, developing local campaigns, and getting democratic socialists into office, check out our Calendar for the next Electoral Politics Committee meeting.
And if you're a candidate seeking endorsement, check out our Endorsements page.
Endorsement Process