2024 Oregon Secretary of State election

2024 Oregon Secretary of State election

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Reporting
83%
as of 10:22 p.m., 6 November 2024 PST
 
Nominee Tobias Read Dennis Linthicum
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote 1,051,177 819,471
Percentage 54.35 42.37

County results
Read:      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%
Linthicum:      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%

Secretary of State before election

LaVonne Griffin-Valade
Democratic

Elected Secretary of State

Tobias Read
Democratic

The 2024 Oregon Secretary of State election was held on November 5, 2024, to elect the Oregon secretary of state, the highest office in the state after the governor.[1] Incumbent Democrat LaVonne Griffin-Valade was appointed by Governor Tina Kotek to replace Shemia Fagan, who resigned in May 2023 after revelations that she took a consulting job at a cannabis company while her office was auditing Oregon's marijuana industry, which many considered to be a conflict of interest.[2][3] Griffin-Valade did not seek election to a full term.

Primary elections took place May 21, 2024.[1] Democratic nominee Tobias Read won the general election on November 5, 2024.

  1. ^ a b "Oregon elections, 2024". Ballotpedia. Retrieved August 9, 2023.
  2. ^ Borrud, Hillary (May 2, 2023). "Oregon Secretary of State Shemia Fagan resigns". The Oregonian/OregonLive. Archived from the original on May 2, 2023. Retrieved May 2, 2023.
  3. ^ Shumway, Julia (June 30, 2023). "LaVonne Griffin-Valade takes over as Oregon secretary of state with pledge to rebuild trust". Oregon Capital Chronicle. Retrieved August 9, 2023.