2026 Oregon Commissioner of Labor election

The 2026 Oregon Commissioner of Labor election was held on May 19, 2026, to elect the Oregon Commissioner of Labor and Industries, one of five statewide elected offices. Incumbent commissioner Christina Stephenson won re-election to a second term. The election is officially nonpartisan, though candidates can affiliate with a political party.

Commissioner Stephenson was favored to win reelection, yet she managed to outperform her electoral success in November 2022. Although the office is formally nonpartisan, Stephenson, a Democrat, managed to carry over half of Oregon's counties in her reelection campaign, even outright winning Josephine County, as well as flipping Coos and Deschutes counties, which she narrowly lost four years earlier. Despite losing them, she also fell just one vote short of flipping Wallowa County and just 87 votes short of flipping Baker County. Stephenson has become the first Democrat or Democratic-endorsed candidate in any contested statewide election to carry Josephine County, and to carry a majority of the Beaver State's counties, since 2004. It also marks the strongest performance of any Democrat or Democratic-endorsed candidate in any Eastern Oregon counties in a contested statewide race since then.

Candidates

Declared Chris Lynch, former bureau of labor and industries investigator Christina Stephenson, incumbent commissioner (2022–present)

Endorsements

Results

By county County Christina StephensonDemocratic Chris LynchNonpartisan Write-inVarious Margin Total # % # % # % # % Baker2,23348.92%2,32050.82%120.26%-87-1.91%4,565 Benton16,23471.99%6,22227.59%930.41%10,01244.40%22,549 Clackamas61,21760.71%39,26838.95%3440.34%21,94921.77%100,829 Clatsop6,33663.96%3,53435.68%360.36%2,80228.29%9,906 Columbia7,30253.05%6,30045.77%1621.18%1,0027.28%13,764 Coos8,76053.72%7,46045.75%860.53%1,3007.97%16,306 Crook3,27844.28%4,07755.07%480.65%-799-10.79%7,403 Curry3,59856.87%2,68942.50%400.63%90914.37%6,327 Deschutes37,63065.20%19,90634.49%1820.32%17,72430.71%57,718 Douglas12,33847.53%13,40051.62%2230.86%-1,062-4.09%25,961 Gilliam24745.91%28953.72%20.37%-42-7.81%538 Grant80139.95%1,18659.15%180.90%-385-19.20%2,005 Harney77639.45%1,17759.84%140.71%-401-20.39%1,967 Hood River4,67872.49%1,74026.96%350.54%2,93845.53%6,453 Jackson28,43259.72%18,97739.86%1960.41%9,45519.86%47,605 Jefferson2,58048.51%2,69950.74%400.75%-119-2.24%5,319 Josephine10,28154.21%8,61645.43%670.35%1,6658.78%18,964 Klamath7,17246.12%8,30753.42%710.46%-1,135-7.30%15,550 Lake81538.46%1,27760.26%271.27%-462-21.80%2,119 Lane62,27266.63%30,65032.79%5420.58%31,62233.83%93,464 Lincoln9,26966.12%4,68633.43%640.46%4,58332.69%14,019 Linn14,74548.61%15,36450.65%2220.73%-619-2.04%30,331 Malheur2,00245.54%2,37754.07%170.39%-375-8.53%4,396 Marion36,98955.45%29,35944.01%3580.54%7,63011.44%66,706 Morrow94145.07%1,12253.74%251.20%-181-8.67%2,088 Multnomah128,67579.45%32,81920.26%4620.29%95,85659.19%161,956 Polk12,69156.26%9,73243.14%1340.59%2,95913.12%22,557 Sherman18840.34%27659.23%20.43%-88-18.88%466 Tillamook4,61157.42%3,36741.93%530.66%1,24415.49%8,031 Umatilla5,58547.71%6,05851.75%630.54%-473-4.04%11,706 Union3,13746.88%3,52452.66%310.46%-387-5.78%6,692 Wallowa1,39649.77%1,39749.80%120.43%-1-0.04%2,805 Wasco3,41155.60%2,70144.03%230.37%71011.57%6,135 Washington78,54067.73%36,72831.67%6920.60%41,81236.06%115,960 Wheeler15538.18%24660.59%51.23%-91-22.41%406 Yamhill16,26857.17%12,05342.36%1340.47%4,21514.81%28,455Totals595,58363.22%341,90336.29%4,5350.49%253,68026.93%942,021

2026 Oregon Commissioner of Labor election

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