Bangs holds a majority in unofficial returns for the North Coast Senate seat
The Promenade in Seaside, looking south, in Senate District 16. Photo: Visitor7, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Republican Courtney Bangs holds a majority in unofficial returns for Oregon’s open Senate District 16 seat, the North Coast-centered district that includes Clatsop and Tillamook counties.
Unofficial results from the Oregon Secretary of State, last updated Nov. 13 at 4:45 a.m. PT, showed Bangs with 36,914 votes, or 50.5% of the 73,058 ballots counted. Democrat Rachel Armitage had 32,980 votes (45.1%), Independent Melisa Finkle had 3,106 (4.3%), and 58 other votes were listed. The figures are unofficial until the state certifies the election.
Oregon Public Broadcasting listed Bangs as the winner in its Nov. 10 results table, when the same unofficial count stood at 50.5% for Bangs and 45.2% for Armitage with most of the expected vote in. District 16 covers Clatsop, Tillamook and Columbia counties and parts of Washington, Multnomah and Yamhill counties. The seat is open; Sen. Suzanne Weber did not run for reelection.
The November result follows a competitive general election. A pre-election account in this newsroom covered how Armitage and Bangs made their cases to North Coast voters. Later unofficial counts have not changed the order of finish.
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