Oregon's 30th Senate district

Oregon's 30th Senate District as of September 27, 2021

District 30 of the Oregon State Senate comprises all of Baker, Crook, Grant, Harney, Lake, and Malheur counties, as well as parts of Deschutes and Jefferson counties. The district is composed of Oregon House districts 59 and 60 and is the largest state Senate district in Oregon. It is currently represented by Republican Mike McLane of Powell Butte.

Election results

District boundaries have changed over time. Therefore, senators before 2013 may not represent the same constituency as today. From 1993 until 2003, it covered a slightly different area in eastern Oregon; from 2003 until 2013, it extended to cover Gilliam, Jefferson, Sherman, Wasco, and Wheeler counties and parts of Deschutes and Lake counties; and from 2013 until 2023, it lost all of these gains except western Wasco County, northern Deschutes County, and Jefferson County.

The current district is more compact and adds all of Crook and Lake counties, which have historically been a part of other districts, while losing parts of northern Jefferson County and northern Deschutes County as well as all of Wasco and Wheeler counties.

The results are as follows:[1]

Year Candidate Party Percent Opponent Party Percent Opponent Party Percent
1984 Gene Timms Republican 51.6% Mark Stringer Democratic 48.4% No third candidate
1988 Gene Timms Republican Unopposed
1992 Gene Timms Republican 64.0% Trish Seller Democratic 36.0% No third candidate
1996 Gene Timms Republican 70.8% Jennifer Carper Democratic 27.7% Rohn Webb Socialist 1.4%
2000 Steve Harper Republican 71.4% Debra M. James Democratic 28.4% No third candidate
2004 Ted Ferrioli Republican 98.0% Unopposed
2008 Ted Ferrioli Republican 97.9%
2012 Ted Ferrioli Republican 98.3%
2016 Ted Ferrioli Republican 70.1% Mark Stringer Democratic 29.6% No third candidate
2018 Cliff Bentz[a] Republican 71.7% Solea Kabakov Democratic 28.2%
2020[b] Lynn Findley Republican 66.9% Carina Miller Democratic 33.0%
2024 Mike McLane Republican 98.4% Unopposed
  1. ^ Off-cycle election due to the resignation of Ted Ferrioli in 2017 after his appointment by Governor Kate Brown to the Northwest Power and Conservation Council. Cliff Bentz was the incumbent in this election as he was appointed to fill the vacant seat.
  2. ^ Off-cycle election due to the resignation of Cliff Bentz in 2020 after his election to the House of Representatives representing Oregon's 2nd district. Lynn Findley was the incumbent in this election as he was appointed to fill the vacant seat.

References

  1. ^ "OR State Senate 30". Our Campaigns. Retrieved January 1, 2018.