What Went Down During The May 17 Primary Elections

ABC News has projected former Oregon House Speaker Tina Kotek as the winner of the Beaver State’s Democratic primary for governor. She currently leads by 23 points, 57 percent to 34 percent, over state Treasurer Tobias Read. It remains to be seen who she faces in November in a state where the GOP hasn’t won a gubernatorial election since 1982.

And Nathaniel, Clackamas will take longer than normal to report because of the barcode issue.

In Oregon’s 5th District, with 25 percent of the expected vote reporting, Jamie McLeod-Skinner has a wide lead over incumbent Rep. Kurt Schrader, 65 percent to 35 percent. However, I’m not writing Schrader off yet. Most of the votes so far are coming from Bend’s Deschutes County, which was not in Schrader’s old district. No votes are reporting yet from his home county of Clackamas.