It looked like Clark County would keep its presidential bellweather reputation intact on Monday, after Donald Trump pulled ahead of Hillary Clinton by five votes, but Tuesday’s results put Clinton back in the lead.
County voters have picked the winning president in all but four elections since 1900. As of Tuesday night, Clinton was leading by more than 100 votes.
The last time the county’s vote didn’t align with the winner was in 1988, when Democrat Michael Dukakis eked out a victory over Republican George H.W. Bush.
Clinton had 90,697, or 44.49 percent of the vote, compared with Trump’s 90,590, or 44.44 percent, of the 206,090 ballots counted by Tuesday.
The elections department estimates there are 4,500 more ballots to count.
Clark County voters reversed course from their primary election decision and backed Republican Bill Bryant for governor. Bryant captured 51.84 percent of the vote, compared with incumbent Gov. Jay Inslee’s 47.89 percent.
Inslee, however, won statewide and was re-elected to a second term.
The leaders in all the other tight races continued to solidify their leads.
Republican John Blom, vying for an open Clark County council seat, continued to see an increase in the number of people who voted for him and now leads Democrat Tanisha Harris by 1,039 votes.
In the race for the 17th Legislative District, Position 1, Republican Vicki Kraft widened her lead over independent Democrat Sam Kim by 1,901 votes.
Overall, this year’s general election favored Republicans and incumbents. Republicans won 12 of 15 seats spanning five legislative districts covering all or part of Clark County, and all incumbents appear to have won re-election.
The election is due to be certified Nov. 29.
