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6:14 p.m. Update:

Democrat John Kitzhaber has taken the lead in the race against Republican Chris Dudley and will become Oregon's next governor.

The latest report from Multnomah County puts Kitzhaber up, 49 percent to 48 percent, a 6,000 vote margin against Dudley.

The lead is expected to widen further as more votes are tallied later this evening.





5:15 p.m. Update:

New numbers from Lane County show Republican Chris Dudley's lead continuing to shrink in the governor's race with Democrat John Kitzhaber. As of the last report, Dudley leads by a little more than 4,000 votes, leaving just a 0.4 percent margin between the two candidates.

4:15 p.m.:

will win the governor’s race, The Oregonian projects, giving the Democrat a history-making third term.

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Although

continues to hold a slim lead, mathematical calculations based on statewide voting trends show Kitzhaber is likely to overtake him and win by about 10,000 votes out of 1.4 million cast. The newspaper’s projections show Kitzhaber winning by 49 percent to 48 percent, which is outside the margin for automatic recount.

The latest results from Multnomah County, where Kitzhaber has gotten 70 percent of the vote, show Dudley’s lead has narrowed to about half of a percent and will be reversed once the remaining 75,000 ballots from Multnomah and Democrat-heavy Lane County are tallied.

Neither campaign was available immediately to comment.

-- The Oregonian