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All three incumbent Portland city councilors in District 3 appear poised to win reelection. The district covers all of Southeast Portland west of Interstate 205 and a sliver of Northeast Portland,
Preliminary results show that Councilors Steve Novick, Tiffany Koyama Lane and Angelita Morillo are all on track to retain their seats on the City Council. (A candidate need get only 25% of total votes plus one vote to secure one of the three seats.)
Both Morillo and Koyama Lane are Democratic Socialist members of the council’s progressive caucus; Novick tends to vote with the council’s more moderate voting bloc.
Challenger Kellie Torres, a longtime parks bureaucrat, is currently trailing in fourth place with 6,472 votes—about 4,000 less than Morillo, who’s currently in third place.
Should the preliminary trends hold and all six incumbents in both Districts 3 and 4 are reelected, that means the city will have the exact same 12-member council it did for the past two years. That council has been plagued by procedural hangups, petty personal disagreements, and a penchant for heated budget arguments that result in 6-6 deadlocks.
Novick, the frontrunner in early returns, seemed relaxed at his campaign party at the downtown Hilton as he settled into the news that all three incumbents would likely keep their seats.
“In terms of council dynamics, now that we know we’re all stuck with each other for two years, that will maybe force us to all get along.”
As additional ballots are counted throughout the night, results can be viewed here.
This story will be updated as results are updated throughout the evening of Nov. 3.
