The beach at Lincoln City. Unofficial results show the city’s charter measure leading and its general-obligation bond trailing. Photo: M.O. Stevens, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Lincoln City had two measures on the Nov. 3 ballot, and the unofficial results point in opposite directions. The Lincoln County clerk’s Nov. 10 unofficial report, with about 97 percent of ballots counted, showed Measure 21-242, a city charter measure, leading with 2,432 yes votes and 2,022 no. Measure 21-243, a general obligation bond, was trailing, with 1,508 yes votes and 3,077 no.
The charter vote is closer than the bond vote, and both remain unofficial. Ballot challenges can be resolved through Nov. 24, and the secretary of state will certify statewide results on Dec. 10. Post-election audits are required before any of this is final. On the unofficial numbers, the bond is well behind; the charter measure is ahead by a few hundred votes.
Those two questions were Lincoln City’s, not the county’s and not Newport’s. Newport’s own infrastructure bond, Measure 21-244, is a separate question with its own unofficial tally. Lincoln City’s mayoral race, also unofficial, had Susan Wahlke leading Marci Baker in the same report.
The official unofficial totals are in the clerk’s fourth report. Later updates, if the clerk issues them, will be posted through the county elections page.
