Loretta Smith

Loretta Smith is an American politician who served as a Multnomah County Commissioner. She ran unsuccessful campaigns for Portland City Council in 2018 and 2020.[1][2] In each of those elections, she qualified for a runoff election but lost in the second round.

Loretta Smith
Multnomah County Commissioner
In office
January 2011 – January 2019
ConstituencyEast and Southeast Portland
Succeeded bySusheela Jayapal
Personal details
Political partyDemocratic

Elections

2010 Multnomah County Commission election

Smith ran in the 2010 Multnomah County Commission election against 8 other people and won with 5,397 votes (18.39%).[3]

2018 Portland City Council election

Smith ran and lost against Jo Ann Hardesty for Portland City Council in 2018. She came in 2nd place with 99,402 votes (37.2%) against Hardesty's 165,220 votes (61.8%) in the runoff election. She received 25,645 votes (21.2%) in the primary and Hardesty won 56,235 (46.5%)[4][5]

2020 Portland City Council special election

Smith came in first in the primary with 38,330 votes (18.8%); she lost to former Portland School Board member Dan Ryan in the special election in August.[6][7]

References
  1. Oregonian/OregonLive, Everton Bailey Jr | The (January 1, 2020). "Former Multnomah County Commissioner Loretta Smith files to run for Nick Fish's Portland council seat". oregonlive. Retrieved June 2, 2020.
  2. Bailey, Everton Jr. (August 12, 2020). "Portland voters pick Dan Ryan over Loretta Smith to join City Council". The Oregonian. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  3. "May 18, 2010 Primary Election". Multnomah County. March 2, 2011. Retrieved June 2, 2020.
  4. "Hardesty vs. Smith: Diversity, housing, homelessness and more". news.streetroots.org. Retrieved June 2, 2020.
  5. "Municipal elections in Portland, Oregon (2018)". Ballotpedia. Retrieved June 2, 2020.
  6. "Dan Ryan Is Portland's Newest City Commissioner, Winning Special Election Runoff". Willamette Week. Retrieved August 18, 2020.
  7. "Loretta Smith, Dan Ryan vie for Portland City Council seat left vacant by Nick Fish's death". opb. Retrieved August 18, 2020.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.