Two uncontested races saw incumbents take their seats once again on the sprawling Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue board, while one incumbent, Gordon Hovies, will be ousted in favor of new-to-the-board but not to Washington County politics Roy Rogers if initial results hold.
Initial results from the May 20 2025 Special District Elections were posted at 8 p.m. Tuesday, and the results show two incumbents, John Wren and Kevin Henning, winning their uncontested seats on the Banks Fire District board
Initial results from the May 20 2025 Special District Elections were posted at 8 p.m. Tuesday, and the results show Leslee Sipp in the lead for Position 1, with incumbents Corissa Mazukiewicz and Ron Frame winning another term for Positions 2 and 4.
The Washington County Elections Division is urging those who wish to vote in Tuesday's special district election to vote by 8 p.m. (and read up on how we're covering the election).
On May 20, the final ballots will be cast for the special district elections, with voters selecting candidates to take seats on the Banks Fire District and the Banks School Board. Here's who's running and information on when and where to vote.
The May 20 Special District Elections will determine who sits on school, fire, and other local boards for the next few years, and the Washington County Elections Division is reminding would-be voters to register to vote in advance of the April 29 voter registration deadline.
In a report released April 11, DMV said all but one of the new discoveries are people who were erroneously put into the voter registration system between 2010 and 2023.
Thousands of Oregonians submitted letters opposing a Republican senator’s long-shot attempt to ask voters whether to repeal the state’s decades-old mail voting law, swamping the Legislature’s website on Monday. In Banks, Buxton, and Manning, testimony was split.
Three people who were mistakenly registered to vote at Oregon’s Motor Vehicle Services Division could face a criminal investigation for voting despite not being U.S. citizens.
In Banks, voters ousted the incumbent mayor. At the presidential level, Oregon voters were in the minority, granting eight electoral votes to Kamala Harris, who ceded the election to former President Donald Trump Wednesday.
