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The 2024 Oregon State Treasurer election was held on November 5, 2024, to elect the Oregon state treasurer. Incumbent Democratic state treasurer
Steiner won a plurality of the votes, securing nine out of Oregon's 36 counties She performed the best in the state's most populous
Tobias Read
Tobias Read (born July 1, 1975) is an American politician who is currently serving as the 30th Oregon Secretary of State since 2025. As a member of the Democratic Party he served as the 29th Oregon State Treasurer from 2017 to 2025. Before that, ...
is term-limited and cannot seek re-election to a third term in office; he is instead successfully ran for Secretary of State.
Primary elections took place May 21, 2024. On November 5, 2024, Democratic state senator Elizabeth Steiner defeated Republican state senator Brian Boquist
Brian James Boquist (born October 20, 1958) is an American politician from Oregon. He served in the Oregon Senate representing District 12 from 2009 until 2025 A member of the Republican Party, he briefly defected to the Independent Party from ...
in the general election, becoming the first woman to serve as state treasurer.
Democratic primary
Candidates
Nominee
* Elizabeth Steiner, state senator from the 17th district (2011–present)Eliminated in primary
* Jeff Gudman, formerLake Oswego
Lake Oswego ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Oregon, primarily in Clackamas County, Oregon, Clackamas County, with small portions extending into neighboring Multnomah County, Oregon, Multnomah and Washington County, Oregon, Washington counties ...
city councilor (2013–2020) and Republican nominee for state treasurer in 2016
2016 was designated as:
* International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly.
* International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
and 2020
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Declined
* Jeff Golden,state senator
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History
There are typically fewer state senators than there ...
from the 3rd district (2018–present)
Endorsements
Results
Republican primary
Candidates
Nominee
*Brian Boquist
Brian James Boquist (born October 20, 1958) is an American politician from Oregon. He served in the Oregon Senate representing District 12 from 2009 until 2025 A member of the Republican Party, he briefly defected to the Independent Party from ...
, state senator from the 12th district (2009–present)
Withdrawn
* Nathan Sandvig, renewable energy developerResults
General election
Endorsements
Polling
Results
Steiner won a plurality of the votes, securing nine out of Oregon's 36 counties She performed the best in the state's most populous Multnomah County
Multnomah County is one of the 36 counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2020 census, the county's population was 815,428. Multnomah County is part of the Portland metropolitan area. The state's smallest and most populous county, it ...
, home to Oregon's largest city, Portland
Portland most commonly refers to:
*Portland, Oregon, the most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon
*Portland, Maine, the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maine
*Isle of Portland, a tied island in the English Channel
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, with 71.6% of the vote. The county was also where King, a third-party challenger, did the best, with 9.6% of the vote. Conversely, Boquist performed best in the rural Lake County, earning 81.7% of the vote. Steiner became the first woman to be elected as Oregon's state treasurer.
By congressional district
Steiner won 5 of 6 congressional districts.https://davesredistricting.org/maps#viewmap::9b2b545f-5cd2-4e0d-a9b9-cc3915a4750fSee also
* 2024 Oregon electionsNotes
Partisan clientsReferences
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