On Tuesday, Jan. 23, voters approved Measure 101, which preserves a hospital and health insurance tax that helps pay for low-income Oregonians on the Oregon Health Plan.

More than 1 million voters, or about 40 percent of Oregonians who are registered, participated in the special election to approve up to $320 million in health care taxes. About 62 percent supported the measure. About 38 percent voted no.

While the state as a whole overwhelmingly approved the tax, the results varied a lot from county to county. Below is a closer look at how Oregonians voted across the state.

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As The Oregonian/OregonLive's Hillary Borrud reported, results in Multnomah County were far more one-sided than those anywhere else in the state. About 80 percent of voters in the state's most populous county said 'yes.' The other counties with the widest margins in favor of the measure were Hood River, Benton, Lane, and Lincoln.

--Lynne Palombo, The Oregonian/OregonLive

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Nineteen mostly eastern counties voted against the measure, some of them just barely. The map above shows the five with the widest margin in opposition.

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Multnomah County was an easy "yes" for Measure 101, and Sherman County voters cast a definitive "no." But two Oregon counties had a hard time deciding. Coos and Wallowa counties had tightest margins in either direction: less than 1 percentage point between a "yes" and "no" vote. Below are all five counties with the closest outcomes.

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Above is a breakdown of voter turnout for Measure 101.

Note: All data is available via the Oregon Secretary of State.

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