2024 Multnomah County District Attorney election
November 5, 2024 (2024-11-05)
District Attorney before election

Mike Schmidt

 Elected District Attorney

TBD

The 2024 Multnomah County District Attorney election will be held on November 5, 2024, concurrent with the 2024 statewide general elections, to elect the District Attorney of Multnomah County, Oregon, which includes the major city of Portland.[1]

Incumbent District Attorney Mike Schmidt was elected in 2020 with 77% of the vote, despite his opponent receiving the incumbents endorsement. Schmidt was appointed by governor Kate Brown to start his term earlier than expected in order to replace Rod Underhill, who retired in the middle of his term.

Schmidt, who has announced his intention to run for reelection, has been a controversial District Attorney. He is considered a progressive, and famously refused to prosecute people who were arrested for participating in the George Floyd protests that began in early May of 2023 unless there was "deliberate property damage, theft, or threat of force." By August 11 of that year, the office only prosecuted 47 felonies out of 550 referred protest cases.[2]

Candidates

Declared

  • Mike Schmidt, incumbent district attorney[3]
  • Nathan Vasquez, senior deputy district attorney[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Oregon elections, 2024". Ballotpedia. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
  2. ↑ "Protest cases". Archived from the original on 2021-10-19. Retrieved 2021-10-19.
  3. ↑ "Nathan Vasquez challenging DA Mike Schmidt as MultCo becomes 'unrecognizable'". KOIN.com. 2023-09-03. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
  4. ↑ "Deputy DA announces run for Multnomah County District Attorney". KOIN.com. 2023-05-24. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
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