The delay in decisive results was caused by particularly tight races in normally blue Oregon, extended deadlines for voters to submit ballots and some hiccups in the vote count. It follows the low level of closely watched games that remained winless on Tuesday night but are likely to be called Wednesday. Governor of Oregon Oregon’s most competitive race for governor in a dozen years was one of several close contests that were too close to call early Wednesday. Tina Kotek, Democrat, leads Republican Christine Drazan by just over 1 percentage point, and about 650,000 of the state’s projected 1.9 million votes have not been counted. Kotek appears on track to win with a generous share of ballots yet to be counted in Democratic-dominated Multnomah County. At 6:45 a.m., Kotek was leading with 45.7 percent of the vote to Drazan’s 44.6 percent. Unaffiliated candidate Betsy Johnson, a former longtime Democratic state representative who ran a well-funded campaign, was in third place with just under 9 percent of the vote. The Oregonian/OregonLive expects the winner to be known by noon Wednesday. Democrat Jamie McLeod-Skinner, left, and Republican Lori Chavez-DeRemer are running for the redrawn 5th Congressional District campaign. Jamie McLeod-Skinner and Mark Graves/The Oregonian/OregonLive 5th Congressional District Republican Lori Chavez-DeRemer looks poised to win by less than 5 percentage points over Democrat Jamie McLeod-Skinner. But the Democrat leads in Clackamas County, which had only half its ballots counted as of 11 p.m. Tuesday. The race is one of the most competitive – and closely watched – in the country this year, after McLeod-Skinner unseated seven-term incumbent Kurt Schrader in May. Chavez-DeRemer led 52.2 percent to 47.5 percent, and if her lead holds, she could join Andrea Salinas, who ran in the 6th District, as Oregon’s first Latina in Congress. Republican Mike Erickson and Democrat Andrea Salinas, candidates for Oregon’s new 6th Congressional District. 6th Congressional District Democratic Legislator Andrea Salinas has a 2 percentage point lead over Republican businessman Mike Erickson in Oregon’s new 6th District. The majority of the district’s voters live in Washington and Marion counties. It’s a tough race because most of the votes up for grabs are in Marion County, where Erickson has a lead. As of 11:15 p.m., Salinas led with 49.9 percent of the vote to Erickson’s 47.8 percent in Oregon’s first new congressional district in 40 years that stretches from the southwest suburbs of Portland to Salem.
