10:55 PM: Jeff Keen: ‘Purple tsunami’ speak turned out to be a ‘pink ripple’
KTVZ’s Republican political analyst Jeff Keen, requested in regards to the predictions of a “pink tsunami,” mentioned simply earlier than 11 on our Fox newscast that wanting on the outcomes, it was extra of a “pink ripple.”
Others could disagree – that occurs, lots.
10:20 PM: Sure equals no? Possibly, for some – the psilocybin votes; Jefferson, Criminal County outcomes
Once you put a ban or opt-out of a state regulation on the poll, generally it finally ends up being a “sure equals no” vote, and that may be darn complicated except one reads all the pieces carefully.
For no matter causes, Deschutes County voters have been turning down an opt-out on psilocybin companies Tuesday evening, with 55% no votes to 45% sure. It was one in every of a number of votes sparked by the sluggish progress towards finishing state rules for the voter-approved remedy.
Elsewhere, it was a unique story. Redmond voters have been approving a ban on psilocybin product manufacture and a 2-year moratorium on psilocybin service facilities.
The Prineville and Criminal County votes to bar psilocybin-related companies have been passing by practically 2-to-1. Jefferson County, Madras, Metolius and Culver did a lot the identical. Additionally in Jefferson County, the Bowman Museum working levy was passing 54-46%
In different Jefferson County outcomes, Mike Lepin was besting 4 different candidates for the Madras mayor seat, whereas the Madras Aquatic Middle native possibility tax renewal was passing handily, 61-39%. Mark Wunsch was defeating Mae Huston for Jefferson County Commissioner place 1, 60-40%
9:35 PM: Because of our nice techs, outcomes present now! Levy, Kropf main state Home races
Yay, our nice tech helpers (thanks Karl!) have nailed most of our outcomes show points.
So, in these Oregon Home races, District 53 outcomes present Democrat Emerson Levy narrowly main Republican Michael Sipe, 51-49%, or about 640 votes. In District 54, Democrat incumbent Jason Kropf had a a lot simpler time of it, defeating Republican challenger Judy Trego 64-36%
9:20 PM: Fascinating remark by Patti Adair to fellow Republicans
“We’re going to win, and we’re going to preserve sanity in Deschutes County,” county Commissioner Patti Adair mentioned to cheers from fellow Republicans, as we heard in Noah Chast’s dwell cut-in from the Deschutes GOP election social gathering at The Riverhouse.
Eventually report, Adair was main Democratic challenger Morgan Schmidt by about 1,200 votes out of practically 69,000 counted.
9 PM: Chavez-DeRemer leads McLeod-Skinner; Kebler leads for Bend mayor; bond measure outcomes
To date, the carefully watched Fifth District congressional race has Republican Lori Chavez-DeRemer forward by about 5 proportion factors, 52-47%, about 10,000 votes aside.
Bend Metropolis Councilor Melanie Kebler seems to be profitable the Bend mayor’s seat, with 55% to 44% for Chris Piper.
A detailed three-way race for Redmond mayor, with former mayor and present councilor Ed Fitch main with 36% of the vote to about 31% for Jay Patrick and Ben Schimmoller very shut behind, slightly below 31%, Charles Webster Baer trails with simply over 1%.
The measure to make Deschutes County commissioners is passing handily, 62-38%. And the Bend-La Pine Faculties bond measure is passing, 58-42%.
The Redmond Space Park and Rec District’s bond measure for a brand new aquatic facility is failing narrowly, however the five-year working levy is passing simply, with virtually 61% of the vote.
8:45P: Apologies for outcomes points, hyperlink to official web page; governor race tightens, M. 114 passing narrowly
We’re having some issues with outcomes displaying correctly on-line, our apologies, so to be sure you can get there, right here is the official secretary of state results page.
The governor’s race has tightened as you’ll be able to see, with over 1 million votes counted, it exhibits Democrat Tina Kotek forward by about 1 proportion level or 10,000 votes.
Measure 114, in the meantime, is passing narrowly, 51-49%.
8:23P: The primary lower exhibits shut Deschutes County county races, not so shut in Bend
Okay, right here we go.
At this level, Deschutes County Commissioner Tony DeBone is narrowly defeating challenger Oliver Tatom, 52-48%, whereas colleague Patti Adair could be very narrowly main challenger Morgan Schmidt, 51-49%.
Bend Metropolis Councilor Barb Campbell, who shifted to a two-year race after a colleague’s resignation, is properly forward, with 43% of the vote to twenty-eight% for Karon Johnson and 13% for Invoice Olsen. Mike Riley properly forward with 62% in a three-way race for a council seat and Ariel Mendez has 65% to Sean Sipe’s 35%
8:05 PM: Huge Kotek lead – or too early to name?
Our top-of-home web page first-round rely simply after the polls closed at 8 p.m. matches secretary of state figures, displaying Democrat Tina Kotek properly forward within the carefully watched, costliest-ever governor’s race, holding simply over 50% of the ballots counted to date, to about 40% for Republican Christine Drazan and non-affiliated Betsy Johnson at about 8 1/2% of the 662,603 votes counted.
However simply now, NBC Information, with solely about half the ballots of their early tally that the state exhibits, simply mentioned it was too early to name, displaying Kotek barely main Drazan about about 1,400 votes.
6:20 PM: Not your typical midterm election evening
Together with redistricting creating many new congressional and legislative districts that change the political image across the nation in hard-to-predict (or ballot) methods, there’s different uncommon points to this explicit election evening.
It does not snow in Bend fairly often on Election Day. There’s additionally a high-profile homicide trial underway, and after two years of COVID-19 restrictions, the return to in-person gatherings comes as flu season, respiratory virus and continued circumstances of the virus has some folks nonetheless carrying masks and lots of nonetheless ready or preferring to earn a living from home.
There’s been a variety of concentrate on election safety, whereas there’s additionally been frequent advisories that it may take days for remaining outcomes on many measures and points across the nation. Right here in Oregon, that might delay a remaining outcome as a result of the state now permits ballots postmarked by Nov. 8 to be counted — not simply those who make it into the clerk’s workplace or drop bins by 8 p.m. Tuesday.
So we’ll see the way it goes.
4:30 PM: We’re dwell on the scene of tonight’s social gathering events, as polls shut again East
Hey there, and welcome to just a little experiment our sister NPG stations have tried earlier – somewhat than attempt to write one voluminous story that covers the easy-to-follow-here Oregon election results however could be laborious to rearrange/observe (a lot much less preserve up to date!) as issues get tight (or not) or flip-flop (or not), we’ll do a superb old style weblog.
In the event you watched our NewsChannel 21 Fox @ 4, you’ve already seen Noah Chast dwell at The Riverhouse, the place the Deschutes Republicans can have their social gathering, our political analysts, Jeff Keen and Judy Stiegler, speaking with our Lee Anderson, and Carly Keenan dwell on the Democrats’ watch social gathering location at Silver Moon Brewing.
Now that polls are closing again East, we’re additionally beginning to see the colours of whose leaning – Republicans pink or Democrats blue – in races throughout the nation on our Determination 2022 Plus Balance of Power page, which additionally exhibits the governorships. We’ll after all be watching the native and state races on this interactive page, as soon as the polls shut at 8 p.m.
Oh and we have added a hyperlink on easy methods to observe your Oregon poll on the upper-right aspect checklist on our Decision 2022 page, together with hyperlinks to every county’s election pages.
By the way in which, we’re sticking with the secretary of state’s official outcomes web page – we had our personal within the works, however lately the state web site has actually received it nailed, and we needed to ensure what we offer are full, quick, and simple to trace outcomes on each race across the state.
We’ll have way more on the air at 5 and 6, together with 5-minute updates throughout NBC’s protection by way of the evening till our 10 (on Fox) and 11 (on NBC) newscasts with the most recent outcomes.
We’ll see how the evening goes – will there be a lot of surprises, some shut races and the like? It is extra of an “something’s attainable” evening than many previous election nights, from the tight governor’s race on down the poll.
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