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And voila, up to when the session ended (not counting the special session where they actually did go on to elect a guy). With no less than 132 candidates receiving votes, you can tell why I have a "scattering" row on the main tables. I think I'll have one row for Slater, one row for whichever...

For 1885, I'm starting with the totals per ballot instead of doing the spreadsheet of votes ballot-by-ballot so I can tell what candidates were worth labeling separately. Things are going well (/s):

Ages ago I tried to map the Liverpool council elections but got burned out after a decade or so 'cause Wikipedia didn't have percentages and I didn't care enough to calculate them. Very good work.

It was a requirement, pretty much; under the 1866 law regulating Senatorial elections, the state legislature was required to ballot at least once a day until a choice was made. In the deadlocked Oregon elections I've covered so far, the general procedure seems to have been to hold exactly one...

Not everyone, but 39 out of the 90 state legislators were absent, and 11 of the remaining 51 voted present. That's still 40 people, so nobody even got 10%.

1889 was just as ordinary: I've just started looking into 1885, though, and it's somehow even worse than 1895 - they adjourned without choice after the sixty-ninth ballot, in which the leading candidate received three votes.

I'm genuinely surprised the 1891 election was so normal:

It took a While, but here's 1895: One would expect the two-term incumbent Dolph, having won an overall majority in the first ballot and only not being elected because he only won a majority in the State Senate and not the State House, to have been elected in the first joint ballot, but...

Impressive.

What projection is this in?

Well, that turned out to be a relatively short election. For some reason, the Fusionists switched out their candidate on every ballot; not sure why when they completely failed to win over any new voters.

Next up is the 1898 election, which was held late in a special session because *checks notes* the State House disintegrated over it when it was supposed to happen in 1897. Oh, joy...

I somehow never noticed Fulton was in the state legislature - one has to wonder what he was thinking supporting candidates who peaked at three votes total. There's a universe out there where they heed his no-hoper vote and future convicted embezzler Frank L. Dunbar becomes Senator instead...

And behold, the votes. Really quite embarrassing for a party with over three-quarters of the legislature to take the entire session to do this.

I'm tabling out the state legislative vote, and you can't make this up: on February 17, the Senate voted unanimously for a resolution calling for a constitutional convention with the express purpose of electing Senators by popular vote, then that very same day two-thirds of the members in...

I'm sure you can do it - I certainly don't live anywhere near Oregon! I imagine the state manual or equivalent lists the legislators' hometowns, which is what I used for my map (alongside the legislative journals for the actual votes).

An attempt to map the general state of affairs during ballots 28-47. No distinction was attempted between state senators and state representatives, and legislators are mapped by county of residence because the state senate districts had three layers of floterial districts and I don't want to...

I'm surprised nobody else has gone this in-depth into it already. In the meantime, I've popped forward to the 1903 election, and apparently they did hold a popular vote in 1902 - earlier than the 1906 date that gets tossed around. Course, the fact that the legislature went and chose another...

I've been working on mapping out senatorial races in Oregon, and you gotta love the party with a near supermajority in both houses completely cannibalizing itself and only electing someone at 11:55 PM on the last day of the legislative session. Ballots 1-27 were each held on separate days...

Doing a reboot of my old TL, let's go! Sages, à la Chełm The Workings of the Columbian Government The [Placeholder] of Columbia (often called "Columbia with an O" to disambiguate it from "Colombia with two Os") is the oldest still-extant country in America - this is because it has existed...