Sue Rieke Smith leads the three-candidate race for Oregon House District 26 with 56.3% of the vote in preliminary unofficial returns from the Nov. 3 general election.
Rieke Smith, a Democrat, had 14,716 votes out of 26,132 cast in the race, according to Poliwave, which compiled unofficial counts via civicAPI. Republican Stephanie Carkin trailed with 10,723 votes, or 41.0%. Pacific Green candidate Steph Terrio received 672 votes, or 2.6%.
The district covers King City, Sherwood and Wilsonville, according to the Oregon Capital Chronicle's voter guide.
Countywide turnout
Across Washington County, 177,556 ballots had been counted as of 6:45 a.m. on Thursday, Nov. 5, according to unofficial results from the county. That represented 43.32% of the county's 409,853 active registered voters. Zero of 155 precincts had formally reported at that point.
Oregon is a vote-by-mail state. Vote totals will change as additional ballots postmarked by Nov. 3 continue to be processed.
What's next
All results remain unofficial. Poliwave noted that it shows a winner "only when its source declares one or the count is complete." Washington County will post updated ballot counts as processing continues.
