Election Guide 2024

Updated (Again): Rene's Receipts

A time line of the scandals, goof-ups, and power plays of mayoral candidate Rene Gonzalez.

It's the Mercury's Election Issue (Ranked #1 in Portland)!

Featuring our endorsements for the November 5 election, and lots more!

Your Mercury 2024 Election Guide to State, County & Federal Races

Revisit some of the candidates we endorsed in the May primary and plan to vote for on Nov. 5.

Your Mercury 2024 Election Cheat Sheet

Need help filling out your ballot? Use our handy-dandy cheat sheet!

Mercury Endorsements: District 2 Candidates

Our top three picks for the District 2 City Council race—ranked for your convenience.

Mercury Endorsements: Mayor's Race 2024

Our top three picks for Portland mayor—ranked for your convenience.

Editorial: What’s at Stake in the Mayor’s Race

Portlanders worked hard for a better form of government. Without the right leader, we’ll be stuck in a rut of dysfunction.

Mercury Endorsements: District 1 Candidates

Our top three picks for the District 1 City Council race—ranked for your convenience.

Mercury Endorsements: District 3 Candidates

Our top three picks for the District 3 City Council race—ranked for your convenience.

Mercury Endorsements: District 4 Candidates

Our top three picks for the District 4 City Council race—ranked for your convenience.

Mercury Endorsements: State Measures 2024

Featuring impeachment, cannabis unionization, a questionable kicker, and more.

What to Expect From Portland’s New Government

How will Portland’s new crop of leaders tackle a revamped system and problems that have been building for decades?

Street View: How Transportation is Shaping This Year’s Election

Many of this year’s City Council candidates can hold their own in wonky transportation spaces. Here’s how activists got in their ears, and what might come of it.

THE TRASH REPORT: A Special ELECTION TRASH Edition!

Time to rank your vote for the trashiest gossip of election season!

Imbecile Parade with Frank Cassano

The triumphant (?) return of (arguably?) the Mercury's greatest columnist.

Small Donors, Big Changes

With a Government Transition, More Candidates Tapped Into Public Campaign Funding Than Ever—Here’s How It Works.

Commissioning Change

How did Portland decide to adopt its unique commission form of government? You can blame a hurricane.

THIS WEEK’S QUESTION: ARE YOU VOTING FOR HARRIS OR TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT?

“I’m on the fence. Neither candidate has articulated a clear platform on the economy.” — Todd Whalen, insurance adjuster, SW Portland

“Oh well, here’s a ‘clear platform’ for you… you are a blithering, halfwit IMBECILE! Were you buried alive under a pile of your own shit from 2016 to 2020? Newsflash, you simpering jagoff: Trump is (hello!) a convicted fucking felon who spent his entire tenure as president licking the shriveled ballsacks of his fellow billionaires! So I guess now you’re returning the favor? Here’s all you need to know about the “economy,” dipshit: The world will gladly pay you to SHUT YOUR GAPING PIE HOLE, and cram that fence the rest of the way up your ass, you naive, insipid sack of wet laundry! NEXT!” — Frank Cassano


“If I can’t vote for RFK Jr. or Tulsi Gabbard, I’m not voting for anyone.” — Maryanne Thompkins, pottery instructor, SE Portland

“Good one, you ridiculous, drooling turd. Oh, you forgot your third choice… voting to die in a pile of syphilis-infected donkey vomit, because unintelligible slack-jawed morons such as yourself don’t deserve democracy, let alone sharing opinions that make everyone stupider after hearing them! RFK Jr. is an animal-abusing sociopath, Tulsi Gabbard is the only person on earth more stupefyingly ignorant than you, and if you still refuse to vote for the only rational person on this ticket? Maybe you should move to a different country… such as the United States of Insufferable Fuckface Mouth-Breathers! NEXT!” — Frank Cassano


“I want to vote for Harris… but I need to do my own research first.” — Donny Tevets, bartender, Beaverton


“Oh you need to do ‘research’? Then if you’re capable, read the Portland Mercury, because this group of moronic, illiterate dope smokers are the only imbeciles alive who could match your subatomic level of idiocy. Just look at the Mercury’s election issue! It has all the intelligence of a monkey defecating on a snow cone! Seriously, the pandemic had ONE job… send these herpes-riddled, dimwit stoners to the unemployment line—and it couldn’t even do THAT right! In fact, maybe you should ‘research’ how a bunch of lazy, fart-mouth, brain-damaged millennials got this job in the first place, and… aw shit, I’m fired again, aren’t I?” — Frank Cassano