Flood builds a lead of 4,400 votes, with all votes in Lancaster County counted politics

Mike Flood’s lead in the 1st District House race seemed secure late Tuesday, as all Lancaster County votes were counted.

Flood brought out Patti Pansing Brooks with a difference of 56,085-51,662 with votes only in Platt and Sarpy counties.

The Associated Press announced the race for Flood at 22:25

Mike Flood had a lead of 3,400 votes with all votes from eight predominantly rural counties in the 12 counties that included the 1st Congressional District of Nebraska.

Flood brought out Patty Pansing Brooks 41,220-37,877 with many votes yet to be reported by Lincoln, Bellevue, Norfolk and Columbus.

Mike Flood had a lead of 300 votes with all votes from six predominantly rural counties in the 12 counties that included Nebraska’s 1st Convention District.

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Flood led Patty Pansing Brooks with 35,079-34,728 with many votes yet to be reported by Lincoln, Bellevue, Fremont, Norfolk and Columbus.

Patti Pansing Brooks had a small lead of 300 votes over Mike Flood in Tuesday’s snap-election.

The latest figures include the first batch of results from ballots released Tuesday in Lancaster County. Of those ballots recorded that day, Pansing Brooks overtook Flood by 55% -45%. In early voting in Lancaster County, Pansing Brooks led by 62% -38%.

Latest totals:

Patty Pansing Brooks, a Democrat from Lincoln who wants to replace the suffocation of Republicans in the place of the 1st district house, appeared with a lead in the strictly observed early elections on Tuesday.

The total number of votes available at 8:50 p.m. appears to include all completed and submitted early ballots before other voters head to the polls on Tuesday. Pansing Brooks leads with 26,096 votes, or 52.7%, to 23,442 votes for Mike Flood.

Patti Pansing Brooks, Congressional Candidate for 2022, District 1.

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Both candidates are state senators.

Historically, early voting has been in favor of Democrats, and most of the early ballots announced at 8:50 p.m. – 30,443 out of 49,538 – were cast in Pansing Brook’s home county, Lancaster.

Flood, her opponent, is from Norfolk.

County 1 consists of 10 eastern counties of Nebraska, including Lancaster County, along with parts of two others.

Rare by-elections in the 1st District – the first since 1951 – will fill the expired term of former Republican Jeff Fortenbury, who resigned in March after being convicted of lying to federal officials about illegal foreign contributions to his re-election in 2016 campaign.

In a strange twist of fate, Fortenbury was sentenced to two years probation by a federal judge in Los Angeles on Tuesday, avoiding a potential prison sentence.

Democrats have not won a seat in the 1st District Parliament since 1964; since then these are 28 consecutive republican victories. Republicans have a turnout over Democrats of more than 94,000.

Tuesday’s winner will spend the remaining six months of Fortenberry’s term, with Flood and Pansing Brooks re-running in less than five months in the Nov. 8 general election in a race to fill a two-year term beginning in January.

The two candidates won party nominations for the November election by voters in the May 10th primary.

Party leaders elected them to face Tuesday’s snap election.

This is an evolving story. Stay tuned to JournalStar.com for updates.