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Status: activeType: 📢 advocacyCountry: United States Website: fairvote.org
Status active
Type 📢 advocacy
Country United States
Website fairvote.org
Concepts Preferential Voting Mixed Member Proportional Representation Representative Democracy
Last activity 2026-08-21 dod
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FairVote

FairVote is a US 501(c)(3) nonprofit that campaigns to reform American elections through ranked-choice voting (RCV) and proportional representation. It was founded in June 1992 in Cincinnati as Citizens for Proportional Representation, became the Center for Voting and Democracy in 1993, and took its current name in 2004.1

Its early focus on proportional representation broadened into a dual mission: instant-runoff voting for single-winner offices and single transferable vote for multi-winner bodies, alongside supporting reforms such as universal voter registration and a national popular vote for president. FairVote supports the Fair Representation Act, which would enact multi-member districts with ranked ballots for US House elections.

RCV has grown from two US uses before 2000 to dozens of cities, counties, and states — including statewide use in Maine and Alaska — with FairVote acting as the movement's national coordinating body, providing research, policy and legal guidance, and campaign support.2

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  1. "to organize a Cincinnati conference in June 1992 and launch the new organization. More than 60 people from 17 states gathered," The History of FairVote: The Founding Years, FairVote, 2017. ↩

  2. "Today, FairVote promotes solutions that translate our votes into power and create incentives for our elected leaders to be truly accountable and responsive to their constituents. These solutions include ranked choice voting (RCV) and proportional representation." Our Impact, FairVote. ↩

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