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November 3, 2026 · nonpartisan

Councilor, Ward 2a

4-year term. Incumbent: Chris Van Drimmelen — Appointed 5/28/2025 to fill a vacancy. Counted in both Linn and Benton counties.

All 2026 races

Filed candidates

No candidate filings have been synced for this seat yet. Candidacies appear here from official filings only (City Recorder SEL 101s) — never from announcements or news reports. The incumbent is not listed as a candidate unless and until they file.

Follow the money

ORESTAR committee transactions, reviewed and public only. Contributor names are shown exactly as filed and never fuzzy-merged. No contribution limits apply in 2026; HB 4024 limits start January 1, 2027.

No public, reviewed committee transactions have been synced for this race yet. Numbers appear here as ORESTAR filings are ingested and approved — for every candidate in the same job, on the same schedule.

Race timeline

Dated events in strict order: official filings, cycle milestones, and — after November 3 — canvass updates until certification. Results are labeled unofficial until both counties certify.

  1. 2026-09-22upcoming

    Final 42 days — finance sync moves to daily

    ORESTAR committee transactions for every candidate in a race refresh in the same job.

  2. 2026-11-03upcoming

    Election day — results every 30 minutes

    Linn and Benton county feeds plus the state rollup. All numbers unofficial until certification.

Polls & signals

Tier 1 · Scientific polls

No scientific polling is known for these races. Small-city races are rarely polled. If a poll is published, it appears here only with full methodology: sponsor, pollster, field dates, population, sample size, margin of error, mode, and question wording. Missing any field → not published.

Tier 2 · Signals, not polls

Measurable public facts: fundraising velocity and donor counts (ORESTAR), voters’ pamphlet participation, documented endorsements, and county ballot-return statistics during voting. Finance signals appear as filings sync. Signals describe activity — they do not predict outcomes.

Tier 3 · Excluded

Social-media straw polls, news-site widgets, internal campaign polls without released methodology, and betting markets are never displayed — even with a label. This tracker computes no win probabilities.

Doctrine: docs/specs/elections-tracker.md

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