A sign indicating the road where cars can drop off their ballots. 2024 Election Ballot, Eugene Oregon, October 16, 2024 (Eddie Bruning/Emerald)

Secretary of State of Oregon

The first results will be visible tonight at 8 p.m.

About the candidates:

Democrat Tobias Read is running against Republican Dennis Linthicum and Pacific Green candidate Nathalie Paravicini.

Read has been Oregon’s treasurer since 2017 and cannot seek re-election due to term limits. Read previously represented Oregon’s 27th House District, which included the Portland area, from 2007 to 2017.

Linthicum has represented Oregon’s 28th Senate District since 2017, which includes Klamath County as well as parts of Deschutes and Jackson counties. He is barred from seeking re-election to office due to participation in the 2023 GOP walkouts in the Oregon Legislature.

Paravicini previously successfully ran for secretary of state in 2020 and for governor in 2022 before withdrawing. Her priorities are campaign finance reform and electoral reform through support for ranked choice voting.

attorney general of Oregon

The first results will be visible tonight at 8 p.m.

About the candidates:

Democrat Dan Rayfield is running against Republican Will Lathrop to become Oregon’s top law enforcement official.

Rayfield has represented Oregon House District 16, which is mostly Corvallis, since 2015. He also served as Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives from 2022 to 2024, when he resigned to run for attorney general.

Lathrop is a former deputy district attorney for Yamhill and Marion counties. In 2014, he began working at the National District Attorneys Association in Virginia. From 2015 to 2023, he worked with the nonprofit International Justice Mission to prosecute human trafficking in Uganda, West Africa and the Middle East.

Treasurer of Oregon

The first results will be visible tonight at 8 p.m.

About the candidates:

Republican Brian Boquist is running against Democrat Elizabeth Steiner.

Boquist served 36 years in the Army as a Special Forces Officer and in the reserves. Since 2009, he has represented Oregon Senate District 12, serving Yamhill and Polk counties. Boquist is barred from seeking re-election because of his participation in the GOP walkouts in the Oregon Legislature in 2023.

Steiner has represented Oregon’s 17th Senate District, which includes the Portland and Beaverton area, since 2011. From 2018 to 2024, she served as co-chair of the influential Joint Ways and Means Committee.

Oregon Congressional District

The first results will be visible tonight at 8 p.m.

About the candidates:
Val Hoyle (D), the representative of Oregon’s Fourth Congressional District, is seeking re-election. Hoyle previously served as Oregon’s Labor Commissioner until 2022, when she was elected to Congress following the retirement of Peter DeFazio.

Monique DeSpain (R) is running against Hoyle for the seat in Congress. DeSpain is a retired air colonel and attorney for the U.S. Air Force Judge Advocate General’s Corps. After her military career, she moved to a private legal practice in Oregon until launching her campaign in early 2024.