The best available evidence from 273 cities across three decades suggests that the use of ranked-choice voting has no effect on the proportion of female and non-white candidates running for office (Colner 2024). This is consistent with survey evidence showing that the adoption of RCV does not have a meaningful positive effect on either interest in running for office among minority respondents (Santucci and Scott 2021) or on voters’ propensity to support a candidate of color (Crowder-Meyer et al 2023).