Primary results: Two races set for Oregon House general election, others await more votes

This story will continue to be updated as more results come in. Because ballots could be mailed on Election Day starting this year, elections officials caution the winners may not be known for several days. Election offices expect vote counts after Tuesday to rise more than in past years due to valid ballots arriving at counting locations up to seven days after the election.

Democrats and Republicans in Lane County have voted their choices about who represents them in the Oregon Capitol.

Two of the Oregon Legislature's House seat races are set for November's general election: District 7 and District 14. The other two — District 11 and District 12 — will need to wait for more votes to be counted to decide the general election races. No primary races were contested in the Oregon Senate.

House District 7

Republican Alan Stout of Springfield will challenge John Lively, a Democrat from Springfield, who ran unopposed to continue representing the city. Lively represented District 12 until redistricting altered boundaries.

The Associated Press has called the Republican race for Stout Tuesday night. He had a significant lead over Raiph Huber, with 3,192 votes, garnering 82.9% of the votes, based on the first results released on election night. Huber had 635 and 30 votes went toward write-in candidates.

"It's extremely encouraging. I'm incredibly gratified," Stout said Tuesday night. "I'm looking forward to really put it on my efforts into canvassing this summer."

Stout added that he looks forward to working with Huber to defeat Lively.

"I'm sure we have enough in common that we can get what we want to see done," Stout said. "Then it'll be a matter of really, really getting very close with the constituents who I'm hoping to represent."

With the newly drawn district lines in place, District 7 contains the entire city of Springfield with the McKenzie River, the Middle Fork Willamette River and Interstate 5 as boundaries.

House District 11

State Rep. Jami Cate won the Republican primary, but the Democratic challenger is still to be determined.

Three are up for the job in this Democratic House district primary election: Mary Cooke, Nina Brenner and Renee Windsor-White. The candidates all ran “in solidarity” and share the same campaign priorities.

Based on the first results from election night, with 2,722 votes counted, Cooke received 35.23% (959), Windsor-White received 31.26% (851), Brenner received 29.28% (797) and 4.22% of votes (115) went to write-in candidates.

In the Republican primary, two vied for the job in the House District 11 primary election: Cate and Tyler S. Collins.

AP called the race for Cate, who received 85.31% of the 8,248 votes counted. Collins received 14.42%.

With the newly drawn district lines, House District 11 includes much of Linn County and its smaller cities. Lebanon and Sweet Home are the larger cities in the district, while Brownsville, Halsey and Shedd are among the smaller communities included. District 11 also includes the community of Jefferson in Marion County.

House District 12

It's undecide which of the four Republican candidates will be running against uncontested Democrat Michelle Emmons from Oakridge.

Charlie Conrad of Dexter had a slight lead with 30.82% of the votes (2,166), of the 7,029 votes counted as of 11:15 p.m. Tuesday. He's followed by Nicole De Graff with 28.79% (2,024), Bill Ledford with 24.73% (1,738) and Cottage Grove Mayor Jeff Gowing with 15.44% (1,085).

House District 12 serves the eastern portion of Lane County including Dexter, Lowell, Cottage Grove, Creswell, Pleasant Hill, Jasper, Leaburg, Blue River, Marcola, Coburg, Junction City, Cheshire and a portion of southeast Eugene.

There is no incumbent in this race because District 7 Rep. Cedric Hayden, a Republican, is running for Oregon Senate instead.

House District 14

Eugene resident Stan Stubblefield will face uncontested Rep. Julie Fahey, the Democratic incumbent, in the general election.

AP called Stubblefield the winner Tuesday night. He received 85.85% of the 3,033 votes counted. Challenger Caleb Clark, also of Eugene, had 13.36%, based on first results from election night.

"If I succeed, as it looks like I'm going to, it's gonna be a tough election. Julie (Fahey) is a good candidate that I look to challenge. I don't back down from one," Stubblefield said. "The summer is going to be pretty full. It's not going to be like my last few summers. It's exciting."

He added this challenge is unlike any task he's done so far. He said he enjoyed speaking with residents young, middle-aged and older.

"I think we have a good community that we live in," he said.

District 14 contains west Eugene, Veneta and parts of Junction City.

Senate district races all uncontested

Senate District 4: Floyd Prozanski, a Democrat from Eugene, ran uncontested, and there was no candidate for the Republican primary.

Senate District 6: Cedric Hayden, a Republican from Lane County currently representing Oregon House District 7, will face Democrat Ashley Pelton, from Cottage Grove, in the general election.

Senate District 7: James Manning Jr., a Democrat from Eugene, will face Raquel Ivie, an auto broker from Eugene, in the general election.

Contact reporter Tatiana Parafiniuk-Talesnick at Tatiana@registerguard.com or 541-521-7512. Follow her on Twitter @TatianaSophiaPT.

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