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Oregon gubernatorial election, 2018
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Nominee Kate Brown Knute Buehler
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The 2018 Oregon gubernatorial election will take place on November 6, 2018, in order to elect the Governor of Oregon. The person elected will serve a full four-year term, after the 2016 special election, where Governor Kate Brown was elected to serve the last two years of a four-year term.[1]

Incumbent Democratic Governor Kate Brown is running for a full term.

Democratic primary

Candidates

Declared

Endorsements

Kate Brown
U.S. Senators
Organizations

Results

Results by county:
  Brown—80–90%
  Brown—70–80%
  Brown—60–70%
  Brown—50–60%
  Brown—40–50%
Democratic primary results
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Kate Brown (incumbent) 324,541 81.9
Democratic Ed Jones 33,464 8.4
Democratic Candace Neville 29,110 7.4
Democratic Write-ins 8,912 2.3
Total votes 396,027 100.0

Republican primary

Candidates

Declared

Withdrew

  • Bruce Cuff, real estate broker and candidate for Governor in 2014 and 2016 (endorsed Greg Wooldridge)[3][17]

Declined

Endorsements

Knute Buehler
U.S. Senators
State legislators
Individuals
Organizations
Newspapers
Greg Wooldridge
State legislators
Organizations

Debates

Host
network 		Date Link(s) Participants
Knute
Buehler 		Sam
Carpenter 		Greg
Wooldridge
KXL-FM May 11, 2018 [41] Invited Invited Invited

Polling

Poll source Date(s)
administered 		Sample
size 		Margin
of error 		Knute
Buehler 		Sam
Carpenter 		Lori
Chavez-DeRemer 		Greg
Wooldridge 		Other Undecided
Global Strategy Group (D) May 3–6, 2018 438 ± 4.7% 33% 25% – 8% – 33%
Triton Polling & Research (R-Carpenter) April 19–22, 2018 1,013 ± 3.1% 39% 24% – 12% 6%[a] 20%
Triton Polling & Research (R-Carpenter) March 19–25, 2018 628 – 23% 23% – 4% – 50%
iCitizen September 13–28, 2017 168 ± 3.9% 28% – 8% 31% 6% 26%

Results

Results by county:
  Buehler—60–70%
  Buehler—50–60%
  Buehler—40–50%
  Buehler—<40%
  Carpenter—<40%
  Carpenter—40–50%
  Carpenter—50–60%
Republican primary results
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Knute Buehler 144,103 45.9
Republican Sam Carpenter 90,572 28.8
Republican Greg C. Wooldridge 63,049 20.1
Republican Bruce Cuff 4,857 1.5
Republican Jeff Smith 4,691 1.5
Republican David Stauffer 2,096 0.7
Republican Write-ins 1,701 0.5
Republican Jonathan Edwards III 861 0.3
Republican Keenan Bohach 787 0.3
Republican Brett Hyland 755 0.2
Republican Jack W. Tacy 512 0.2
Total votes 313,984 100

Independent primary

Candidates

Declared

  • Skye Allen[3]
  • Dan Pistoresi[3]
  • Patrick Starnes[3]

Results

Independent primary results
Party Candidate Votes %
Independent Party Write-ins 13,497 56.8
Independent Party Patrick Starnes 6,030 25.4
Independent Party Skye J. Allen 2,405 10.6
Independent Party Dan Pistoresi 1,846 7.8
Total votes 23,778 100.0

General election

Predictions

Source Ranking As of
The Cook Political Report[42] Lean D September 14, 2018
Rothenberg Political Report[43] Lean D September 14, 2018
Sabato's Crystal Ball[44] Lean D September 5, 2018
Real Clear Politics[45] {{sort|098|Tossup} September 26, 2018
Daily Kos[46] Likely D September 5, 2018
Governing[47] Lean D September 14, 2018
Fox News[48] Likely D September 14, 2018

Polling

Poll source Date(s)
administered 		Sample
size 		Margin
of error 		Kate
Brown (D) 		Knute
Buehler (R) 		Other Undecided
Clout Research (R) September 20–23, 2018 679 ± 3.8% 42% 41% – –
Hoffman Research Group September 12–13, 2018 680 ± 3.8% 46% 36% 6%[49] 12%
Causeway Solutions (R-No Supermajorities PAC) September 6–11, 2018 2,831 ± 2.0% 41% 43% – –
Clout Research (R) July 30–31, 2018 559 ± 4.1% 42% 43% – 15%
Gravis Marketing July 16–17, 2018 770 ± 3.5% 45% 45% – 10%
Triton Polling & Research (R-Carpenter) March 19–25, 2018 2,067 ± 2.2% 41% 46% – 14%
DHM Research January 25–31, 2018 604 ± 4.0% 46% 29% – 25%
Zogby Analytics November 10–12, 2017 508 ± 4.4% 39% 36% – 25%
iCitizen September 13–28, 2017 645 ± 3.9% 41% 40% 11% 8%

Results

Oregon gubernatorial election, 2018
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Kate Brown (incumbent)
Constitution Aaron Auer
Republican Knute Buehler
Independent Party Patrick Starnes
Total votes

Notes

  1. ^ Bruce Cuff and Jeff Smith with 3%

References

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  48. ^ "2018 Senate Power Rankings". Retrieved July 22, 2018.
  49. ^ Patrick Starnes (I) with 4%, Aaron Auer (C) and Nick Chen (L) with 1%
Official campaign websites
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