As Utah continues working to refine and improve how residents participate in elections, sound analysis of new voting methods based on experiential data of the voters is essential. This new survey data shows that in general, likely voters in Utah support keeping ranked choice voting as an option for municipal elections for those cities and towns that choose to use it.
The support is bipartisan but favors only certain types of elections — primarily those for city office. Support for RCV is robust but not universal. Voters are evenly split on their own city using RCV for future local elections, with 51% interested and 49% not interested. The division is similar in voters’ views on how their city chooses city council members and mayors: 37% prefer that winning candidates get a majority vote through RCV, and 42% prefer that winning candidates simply get the most first-place votes.
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