Incumbents Sen. Annette Cleveland and Reps. Sharon Wylie and Monica Stonier all appeared to be heading for reelection Tuesday night in the 49th Legislative District, based on the first round of ballot results.
The initial results show all three Democratic incumbents leading their Republican challengers by large margins.
The 49th District includes most of Vancouver and some of the areas immediately north of the city, and is a Democratic stronghold.
Early results showed Cleveland with 59.59 percent of the vote, with 40.41 percent going to Republican challenger Rey Reynolds.
In the races for the 49th District’s two seats in the state House of Representatives, early results showed Wylie with 65.69 percent of the vote for the district’s first House seat. Republican candidate Justin Forsman had 34.31 percent. Stonier was ahead by a similar margin — 65.24 percent to 34.31 percent for Republican candidate Park Llafet.
Reached for comment Tuesday evening, Wylie said the initial results for her own race and other local races were about what she had been expecting.
“Locally, I don’t think there were any huge surprises,” she said. “We’ve got a pretty stable community in terms of our political folks.”
Forsman acknowledged Wylie’s lead in the initial results, but stressed that there were still many ballots left to be counted, and expressed a positive outlook about the status of some of the other state races as of Tuesday night.
Cleveland, Reynolds, Stonier and Llafet could not be immediately reached for comment Tuesday night.
