The two-year seat is currently held by Republican incumbent U.S. Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer. State Rep. Janelle Bynum, D-Happy Valley, challenged her for re-election. Bynum previously defeated Chavez-DeRemer twice to represent Oregon House District 51 in the Oregon Legislature.
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Democratic U.S. Rep. Val Hoyle has won reelection in Oregon’s 4th Congressional District. The freshman incumbent defeated Republican Monique DeSpain, an Air Force veteran who has never held elected office and pitched herself as an “outsider” candidate.
The winner of the presidential race in Oregon will take the state’s eight electoral votes. Elections in the state are conducted solely by mail. The ballot must have been mailed or dropped off at any official drop box across the state by 8 p.m. local time on Election Day.
One of the most competitive U.S. House races in the country is playing out in Oregon, where the state’s GOP-held 5th Congressional District is considered one of just over two dozen toss ups nationwide.
Elizabeth Steiner appears positioned to become the first woman to serve as Oregon’s state treasurer, leading her state Senate colleague Brian Boquist in Tuesday’s election. Preliminary results showed Steiner, a Democrat, leading Boquist, a Republican, 51% to 43% at 8 p.m. Oregon hasn’t elected a Republican treasurer since 1988.