May 18, 2022 3:50 a.m.

In the race to replace Val Hoyle as the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries, a runoff is possible. Christina Stephenson had forty-seven percent of the ballots in early results. That is below the fifty percent required to keep the race from moving on to the General Election in November. Cheri Helt is second with nineteen percent of the vote.

A delay in reporting the results in Clackamas County, which is Oregon’s third most populace county, leaves a final result in the race unclear.