Oregon 2024 Election Results

Oregon held its general election on November 5, 2024, deciding 75 legislative seats and 3 statewide offices. No chamber changed party control.

Highlights

• The Republican wave that swept much of the country stopped at Oregon's border: Democrats held every statewide office and regained three-fifths supermajorities in both chambers, the margin that lets the majority raise taxes without a single Republican vote. Republicans' one offensive, a late-money push in Portland's eastern suburbs, came up empty: Sen. Chris Gorsek (D) held Senate District 25 by 12 points.
• The seat that clinched the House supermajority took three weeks to settle. Tracy Cramer (R) led the Woodburn-based House District 22 by about five points on election night, but late-counted ballots carried Lesly Muñoz (D) past her, and the county's final count put Muñoz ahead by 161 votes. Cramer, the only sitting legislator defeated in the state, retained a lawyer and pointed to the state's noncitizen-registration errors, but no challenge altered the result. In the Senate, Anthony Broadman (D) took the Bend-based Senate District 27, held by Republicans for decades, to reach 18 of 30. Two seats whose previous occupants had quit the Republican caucus went back to Republicans: Bruce Starr (R) won Senate District 12 and Darin Harbick (R) won House District 12.
• All three statewide offices on the ballot were open, and Democrats won each of them: Dan Rayfield (D) beat Will Lathrop (R) for attorney general by about nine points in what Oregon Public Broadcasting called the Republicans' best shot at a statewide seat, Tobias Read (D) won secretary of state, and Elizabeth Steiner (D) won treasurer over state Sen. Brian Boquist (R).
• Voters were in a rejecting mood on policy: of the 5 statewide measures, 3 failed. Measure 118, a corporate tax increase that would have funded annual rebates to every resident, lost by more than three to one after nearly every major figure in both parties lined up against it; Measure 117, ranked-choice voting for statewide and federal races, lost decisively, opposed by many of the county clerks who would have run it; and Measure 116, an independent salary commission for state officials proposed after the Shemia Fagan consulting scandal, lost by about five points. Measure 115, giving the Legislature the power to impeach statewide officials, and Measure 119, requiring cannabis businesses to sign labor peace agreements, both passed.
• Across the 75 legislative races, 4 seats changed party labels (two Democratic pickups and the two seats that returned to the Republican caucus), 1 incumbent was defeated, and 19 seats drew a single candidate.

Legislature

• House (60 seats): 35 D, 25 R before the election, 37 D, 23 R after; control stayed with Democrats.
• Senate (30 seats): 17 D, 13 R before the election, 18 D, 12 R after; control stayed with Democrats.

Statewide races

Legislative races

Ballot measures