Early results Tuesday night showed Angelita Sanchez, Dave Trask, Lisa Gourley and Dylan Richards leading in the nine-candidate race for four City Council seats.
Sanchez, who is seeking a City Council seat for the first time, had 1,895 votes (15.35%) an hour and a half after the polls closed, ahead of incumbents Trask (1,860, 15.07%) and Gourley (1,777, 14.40%) and challenger Richards (1,665, 13.48%).
Trailing were incumbent Cortney Nash (1,329, 10.77%), challenger David Lowman (1,265, 10.25%), incumbent James Goble (1,122, 9.09%), challenger Theo White (797, 6.46%) and challenger George Yeager (492, 3.99%).
The top three vote-getters will get three-year terms, with the four-place finisher serving for two years.
The city’s police and library levy renewal requests both looked to have solid support, the police levy getting 3,341 “yes” votes (74.63%), and the library with 3,249 (72.83%).
Meanwhile, the four-year Linn County law enforcement local option tax levy looked to be trailing, with 40,692 (62.60%) no votes and 24,311 (37.40%) yes.
Republican Sherrie Sprenger appeared to be a runaway winner in the four-candidate race for Linn County Commission Seat 3, with a 63.3% lead over Democrat Scott Bruslind (26.57%), Independent Gary Sullivan (5.82%) and Libertarian Christopher Wade (2.09%).
In the race for the state House of Representatives 17th District seat being vacated by Sprenger, Republican Jami Cate of Lebanon (23,736, 68.98%) was well ahead of Democrat Paige Hook of Stayton (10,037, 29.17%) and Pacific Green Party candidate Timothy Dehne of Scio (588, 1.71%).
In the race for the state Senate 9th District seat, Republican incumbent Frank Girod of Lyons (40,003, 65.87%) led Democratic/Pacific Green challenger Jim Hinsvark of Woodburn (19,136, 31.51%) and Libertarian Patrick Marnell (1,520, 2.50 %).