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The government of Portland, Oregon is based on a mayor–council government system. Elected officials include the mayor, a 12-member city council, and a city auditor.The city council is responsible for legislative policy, while the mayor appoints a professional city manager who oversees the various bureaus and day-to-day operations of the city.
Metro is the regional government for the Oregon portion of the Portland metropolitan area, covering portions of Clackamas, Multnomah, and Washington Counties. It is the only directly elected regional government and metropolitan planning organization in the United States. [2]
Portland City Hall is the headquarters of city government of Portland, Oregon, United States. The four-story Italian Renaissance -style building houses the offices of the City Council, which consists of the mayor and four commissioners, and several other offices.
Portland (/ ˈ p ɔːr t l ə n d / PORT-lənd) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon, located in the Pacific Northwest region. Situated in the northwestern area of the state at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers, it is the county seat of Multnomah County, Oregon's most populous county.
The Portland City Council, (formerly the Portland City Commission), is the legislative body of the City of Portland in Oregon and forms part of the Government of the city. In January 2025, the city of Portland switched to a mayor–council form of government from a commission form of government, with elections held the prior November .
The Portland city auditor is one of the six citywide elected positions in Portland, Oregon.The auditor is the only elected official functionally independent of City Council and accountable only to the public.
The 2024 Portland municipal elections were held on November 5, 2024, to elect the mayor, city auditor and city council of Portland, Oregon.This was the first Portland election to use ranked-choice voting (Instant-runoff voting for the mayor's position; single transferable voting for city councillors) following the implementation of charter reform approved by voters in a 2022 ballot measure.
The mayor of Portland, Oregon is the official head of the city of Portland, Oregon, United States. The officeholder is elected for a four-year term and has no term limits. By law, all elections in Portland are nonpartisan. [2] The current mayor is Keith Wilson, who has served since January 1, 2025, and was first elected in the 2024 election.