Andy Montroll
The 2009 Burlington, Vermont mayoral election was the second mayoral election since the city's 2005 change to instant-runoff voting (IRV), also known as ranked-choice voting (RCV), after the 2006 mayoral election. ''Over 64% of Burlington voters voted in favor of the IRV Charter amendment in March 2005, and it went into effect on May 12, 2005, when the governor signed the ratification bill, H.505, which had been passed by both the House and Senate.'' In the 2009 election, incumbent Burlington mayor (Bob Kiss) won reelection as a member of the Vermont Progressive Party, defeating Kurt Wright in the final round with 48% of the vote (51.5% excluding exhausted ballots). Unlike the city's first IRV election three years prior, however, Kiss was neither the plurality winner ( Republican Kurt Wright) nor the majority-preferred candidate ( Democrat Andy Montroll), and Montroll was ranked more preferably than Kiss on 54% of cast ballots. Furthermore, 750 voters for Kurt Wright actu ...
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